Zombie crickets

[HeatherRose]

lol ok, not so much.

Today I made the giant trek to Pet Smart which is waaaaaay across town.....and I have no car, as I'm a youngin' that's too lazy to go get my license.

So I went in, bought my 50 baby crickets (made an impulse cricket food buy...yah, I'm a sucker I know) and went outside and UNFORTUNATELY was 'distracted' by a Tim Hortons and missed the bus by a minute....I stood on the other side of the street and looked really sad but it went by anyway :(.......I figured the crickets would be ok....but then I checked on them and they were all upside down in a pile at the bottum of the bag, with little tiny horrified expressions on their tiny cricket faces!

I was very saddened, because even though they're feeders they have feelings too! (Although its a better death than their more likely demise when they are batted around by my kitty.)

Anyway, in desperation I shoved the bag up my jacket in order to warm them up and I SWEAR it's like people have NEVER seen a girl with a bag of crickets up her shirt! The LOOKS I got....Geez. :rolleyes:

Anyway! They popped back to life, I'm very happy :D

PS....there is a frog...it lives in Northern Canada (I believe!) and it just sits like a lump and freezes over the winter, then thaws in the spring....anyone know what it's called? It's a cool frog :D

Heather

[nouserpif]

Hey, all frogs do that I believe (I know, wikked!), and you're completely right about lose crickets and kitty...
Hahaha, funny story :D
Dan Conner

[katev17]

AHAHA Heather you nut job! So funny... Remember we had to go to the gas station and the guy there was really creepy? "Well ILL give you change but it'll be our little secret ;) "

lmao Freakkkkkk

Kate

[HeatherRose]

LOL yah. That was fun...but it was summer lol today waiting 20 minutes for the bus wasn't fun!

yah I popped the bag while it was up my shirt by accident...these girls looked at me funny...none got loose though! LOL I found another elastic and was on the bus blowing the bag back up!

Heather

[Tim_Cranwill]

Funny... :)

My wife had the same thing happen to her when she picked up a bag of crickets for me just the other day.

[eyespy]

It's a good trick to get stubborn eaters to try new foods. Stun the crix in the freezer for a minute and then put them on top of the new food. When they "come alive" and start moving your herp will often get a taste of both foods and might start eating something new.

I don't know how putting them up your shirt helps stubborn feeders though. :p

[Pythonian]

lol i dunno .. if u put me in ur shirt i'd spring to life as well ;)


BAD MIKEY!! :(

mike.

[Nanashi04]

^^ heheh at least non got out when the bag popped - that wouldn't have been very comfortable. :P

[Lisa]

I'm glad our frozen thawed mice don't spring back to life when we thaw them.

I'm on the understanding that most frogs burrow into the mud and brumate.

[katev17]

lol yea Heather I could imagine waiting outside....

Today's the coldest day EVER. The windchill adds an extra -10 degrees to the current temp (Which is friggin cold) and I had to walk home through a field of which the wind caused the snow to cover the path, so I was walking through 3 feet of snow... SO COLD. I'm going to thaw. Talk to you later

AHaha I would pay to see the look on someone's face if their thawed mice came back to life... ahahah

Kate

[Youkai]

You're thinking of woodfrogs.

[Jotun]

nice story :) I had to do the same thing to get my leo's to eat. It's a great lil trick :D

[HeatherRose]

lol...I know Kate I was hit by a snow tornado today ....:P I put them up there to WARM THEM UP you freaks LOL:D

Heather