Retired Roaches

[tripperfunster]

Item #34

A roach retirement home. Must have live cockroaches in it and must be sized to their scale, for their comfort and enjoyment.





We don't carry hissing cockroaches, so I had to call around to find these. And can I say? UGH! Absolutely disgusting. I handle crickets and mealworms and superworms on a regular basis, and people always squirm and grimace and ask how I can put my hands into pails of bugs and I just kind of shrug. No biggie. Hell, I handle tarantulas and THEY don't hold a candle to these things. They're all ... scuttling and clingie! They have little pokey legs that GRAB you when you touch them. *shudder* Seriously. Just DO NOT WANT.

I am very much a 'live and let live' kind of gal, but these guys went DIRECTLY into the freezer when I was done this, and the next morning I fed them to my chickens. *shudders moar*

Comments

[jouissant.livejournal.com]

HOW ABOUT NOPE

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yes. Nope just about sums it up.

[jouissant.livejournal.com]

Sorry, roach phobia here. Yet could I keep myself from clicking the cut? No, no I could not. I just...why. WHY?

...the house is cute, I'll give it that. And better hissing cockroaches than "palmetto bugs" or whatever Floridians call those mofos.

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

I do love the little furniture in the home. And that bulletin board is fantastic.

And I don't blame you for disliking roaches. I don't mind spiders or most other bugs. But fleas, ticks, roaches, bedbugs and mosquitoes... ugh. Yuck.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Mosquitoes are annoying, but they don't gross me out.

The furniture is Model Magic. Kind of like play-dough, but ... easier to work with. I used it a lot during this hunt! :D

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

As long as I stare at grumpy nurse roach (hey! NURSE ROACHED!! ah ha ha, tell me how clever I am) I can bear to look at this picture. Eeek!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yes, Nurse CRoachet was on purpose! I distinctly remember a window like that from the movie, and yet, I could not find a screen shot of it.

Yeah, the roaches were beyond gross.

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

That is awesome! I love this picture!

Alan (my fiancé) adores cockroaches, the bizarre man. I sponsored a hissing cockroach at a zoo for him one Valentine's Day, and he was thrilled. He has a plastic one called Colin who lives on the shelf.

My boy is strange.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

They never really bothered me before, but I'd never had to TOUCH them either. yuck.

Your man can KEEP them! :D

[joanwilder.livejournal.com]

I got all twitchy just looking at this. You got hutzpah, kid. ICK!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I was squealing like a little girl the whole time. Trust me.
They weren't cooperating, so I had Harry pushing them to my side of the aquarium with a spatula. They kept climbing the walls, and Quincey kept screeching that they would get out.

We are a very brave, manly family. ;)

[droxy.livejournal.com]

I dont like roaches. Bugs and insects dont make nice pets.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I don't mind tarantulas and scorpions, but it's a big NO on roaches from me.

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

I used to have pet crickets as a kid. They're pretty easy to take care of. Don't live long, though.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I like the roach chess set.

[sra-danvers.livejournal.com]

*trembles*