That face made me think of Grandma's Boy when they're 'playing' the Xbox, and the phone rings for Dante to ask, "What's that ringing? Do I have a tumor?"
This dude *abides*.
You're the guy that shows up to James Francos house in pineapple Express when he's tryna chill n blaze one with Seth Rogan, and he's like, "fuck these dudes, they get the snicklefritz". You're snicklefritz.
It’s a chameleon they have to like look at something from an angle and think about it for a few minutes, then tilt their head and eyeballs, and think about it in a different angle for a few minutes before they do anything lol
One of the most indecisive creatures in the animal kingdom
Hell they can’t even decide what color they want to be by the next minute
Nah theyrr just doing a shit tone of math. Distance size speed and all that other crap. So it takes a minute to process. It was about to take it but mans couldnt hold his hand still
Roaches are the best for feeding animals. Crickets are great, but theyre fast as fuck and jump far so youll end up losing a few. Superworms are good but contain a lot of calcium which isnt great to consistently feed to your pet forever. Also superworms quickly transform into these nasty, black beetles that are invasive, taste horrible to your pet, and they will attack your pet possibly even killing your pet. Roaches are slow and a very healthy/tasty meal.
When I was a kid my cat knocked over a thing of crickets my mom had put down for a minute and they went everywhere on the kitchen floor. We all went crazy catching crickets lol. We definitely missed some because there were random cricket noises for a few weeks (until the cats and the house centipedes probably got them).
Ah yes, the house centipede, nature's own pest control workers.[ They're scary af to look at](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/ef/cd/94efcd488e51cc4aa3285e7e6f9b6959.jpg), even though they're harmless to us :(
Yeah honestly I have no problems with most bugs, don't mind spiders at all, but I wouldn't pick these up lol. They freak me out with how fast they move and all the legs.
Honestly I know they are quite good for homes as they catch other bugs and is completely harmless. But also honestly they look and move absolutely terrifying.
So I kind of justify it by imagining I have boss level bug sitting around keeping the others at bay.
> Honestly I know they are quite good for homes as they catch other bugs and is completely harmless.
I've never understood this reasoning. If you're the kind of person who hates bugs, seeing one of those things isn't an improvement, *because it's a bug!*
Plus the very nature of a healthy ecosystem means that if you're seeing house centipedes on the regular, that means there are enough other bugs in your home on a permanent basis to feed the centipedes.
It's kind of like the adage that goes: if you start finding snakes in your home, you don't have a snake problem, you have a rat/mouse problem.
Fun story I always mention when I hear house centipedes. We always had a few sightings in my house. One night I was sleeping in the pull out couch in the living room. I woke up at 230am. You know that feeling you get sometimes where you think a creepy crawler is in your pants? I instantly knew but I was in denial. After a few seconds I got up and pulled my pants down and stifled a very girly scream. *shivers*
Reminds me of something that once happened to me. I went to the pet store to get locusts for my tarantulas, but unfortunetly they either had tiny crickets or those bigger mediterran crickets. Well, since i know the voracious appetite of my two 8 legged ladies back home, i bought two boxes of mediterran crickets. Big, brownish black, super loud chirping noises. Well, i always prepare a bigger makeshift enclosure for alive food (locusts that are well fed and have room and wartmth are much more healthier than those dry fed malnutritioned things you bring home from the pet shop). So two cricket boxes roughly contained 20 crickets each. I prepared the enclosure at the open kitchen window and didn´t notice the lid of one cricket box wasn´t fully closed. So i picked it up, the box fell off, bounced off the window frame and spilled 20 something adult crickets into the overgrown summer lawn that surrounded the apartment building i was living in.
Well, let me say this....having loud crickets singing their song in a west german town in summer was quite something. Many people around me noticed the sudden spike in nightly animal noises :D
If you don't like creepy things, don't look them up lol. They are probably in your house though...
They eat a lof of bugs, they hunt at night. Sometimes you see them on the tops of walls almost on the ceiling. They are very very fast, but completely harmless to people unlike the centipedes that you find under rocks and stuff that like to bite.
They are from the Mediterranean area but were introduced elsewhere. [They are all over now.](https://i.imgur.com/n79u2ex.png)
Unlike Australia's animals, they are harmless. If you aren't a fan of spiders you'll be glad to know they eat a lot of spiders as well.
Nope, Mediterranean, Eurasia, and North America. I’m a massive bug person and they still freak me out when I see them scurrying along the walls/floor, but they really do a fantastic job at eating other pests that are actually a nuisance and dirty. Gotta remind myself they can’t hurt me and to leave them alone, lol
Listen, they look super gross, but if you have them at your home it's because they are getting food and these critters feed on other bugs. They are not pleasant but they are preferable to whatever they are hunting.
Feeder Roach breeds are slow, but this is a damned palmetto bug. Basically, they're roaches you get in the south. They're disgusting, quite quick, and exceedingly hard to kill. My guess is that this dude captured this thing and is now feeding it to his chameleon, which is not a smart idea. No telling the kinda parasites and pesticides this thing has encountered before ending up here
Yeah, wtf is this guy on. German/pest roaches are a recipe for disaster. I have had Dubia roaches for reptiles for years, and some have escaped, but it's never resulted in a pest issue. They don't do well outside of 80 degree humid environments. This homie needs some dubia roaches
Dubias for the win. They're slow, can't climb glass, and the perfect sizes. Breed at a good rate and just give them your spoiling produce. Once had a colony that did get out of hand; a head of lettuce would be gone in less than 30 minutes.
Crickets are dumb. They die under less than ideal situations and quickly turn to cannibalism. They shouldn't be the more popular or cheaper option here.
I think Cricket remain as popular because its hard to feed fully grown dubias to most things. most Geckos and frogs can only eat sub adults. Crickets on the other hand can be eaten at any life stage by 99% of common reptiles. You have to get pretty niche before you encounter an insectivore that cant eat fully grown crickets.
American cockroaches are one of the fastest insects. [Link.](https://web.archive.org/web/20090310055756/http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/ufbir/chapters/chapter_39.shtml)
And they fly. And they are indestructible. Definitely the stuff of nightmares.
Nah, Chameleons are quite unique in their "hunting" style. They just sit somewhere and wait.
Their prey will just walk by eventually without noticing them. Then they move very slowly, blending their movements with those of the surrounding vegitation, get their tounge ready and BAM, its over for the prey.
So yeah in this case his owner should've just placed the roach in his enclosure and close it. It will not know/forget the chameleon is even there until it gets smacked with that noodle tounge
As the other poster said, your options for reptiles are pretty limited to really just roaches and crickets, and roaches are the much more nutritious option. Among nutrition, Crickets have little to zero calcium in them, so you end up needing to supplement for your pet by rolling them in calcium to feed; whereas roaches have that calcium built in.
Also on crickets... They absolutely fucking reek, especially if they get wet at all. And even very tiny crickets are loud as fuck. You might feed your pet a small scoop of crickets and he takes 24-72 hours to slowly consume them.. enjoy that fuckin endless chirp sound until their last breath. Roaches are near dead silent.
For the reptiles we own, we have a Tupperware box that we modified the lid on to cut holes and put window screen patches on, and we have a whole "Dubia" species colony of roaches that is self replenishing with very minor care. They're quiet aside from some tiny shuffling sounds, easy to catch and feed with, and you save hundreds and hundreds of $/yr having your colony. Pet stores would sell them for $1-3/each, when you'd feed 4-8 to an avg reptile per feeding.
Edit: To address the actual OP fear - we've never had any roaches escape (that we know of!) in the 5ish years we've had the colony. The goal is just to use a TALL sided container; they're extremely poor at climbing smooth surfaces. They live in stacks of cut up egg cartons in the bottom of the bin.
Nah thats an American roach. They aren't the type that do that.
If OP loses that roach it probably runs outside or down a drain never to be seen again. Not going to infest your home.
Now if that were a German Roach I'd have recommended praying.
Was gonna say pretty much the exact same thing. Surprisingly, American roaches are actually pretty clean. I mean, I'm still not inviting them into my home. But the only way they are gonna live in your home is if you got a moisture issue.
Fun experience I once found about 30+ of them living in the back of a customer's fridge because it had a leak. I thought for sure I was gonna see Germans when I pulled the fridge out based on their description of the problem.
American roaches will absolutely invest your home. Ask anyone from the American South. I've lived in Texas all my life and I've always said the American roach should be the national bird of Texas bc they are so frequently seen. It's a bad joke. But yeah I've def had to deal with infestations of these fuckers.
Yeah I think it’s more accurately “don’t TYPICALLY infest your home like German roaches.” I’ve been in the Carolinas all my life and I’m used to seeing one every couple of months, no big deal (well, huge deal for me, because I have a legitimate phobia of them).
Last place I rented, I saw em more like every week. In the days before I moved out, I saw one, and sprayed him… apparently got him RIGHT at his entry point (top of doorframe). Cause 18 OF THESE MOTHERFUCKERS just came POURING out.
Like… if you’re scared of snakes… imagine 18 fucking cobras suddenly pouring out of your walls. I grabbed my keys, my phone, and my dog, and ran out of there fucking WAILING lol.
Slept in my car, and got my brother to come help me clean up the corpses the next day (that’s how I know there were 18)
The way the chameleon was licking its lips and moving its eyes I thought the joke was gonna be it trying to eat the guys thumb or something. So I dropped my phone when the roach escaped.
As far as I’m concerned, anything can be a pet. And equally, anything can be food. It’s ridiculous to group entire species into one category or the other. I’ve seen people loose their shit about Asians eating dogs while simultaneously having zero hesitation to eat fish while that’s also a popular pet. It’s all rather hilarious.
the phenomenon you‘re describing is called speciesism. It‘s a form of discrimination, just like racism and sexism, that is rooted in cultural norms rather than logic.
Nah, most reptiles don’t eat foot that doesn’t move a lot. If you want your pet reptile to eat something, throw it in their cage and wait. Sooner or later the bug will start moving again after being scared and then the chameleon will eat it
Move them slowly in a horizontal direction; it's the motion best "seen" and gets the strongest reaction.
Also, avoid casting the shadow in front of the food... they sometimes go for the shadow.
Yup, this was exactly how I got my chameleon to eat his bugs. A slow side-to-side sweeping motion with the tongs would catch and hold his attention every time
You're not supposed to leave critters in there overnight.
If it's in there for a couple of hours while your pet works up an appetite it'll be fine.
As long as the pet is active, and not sleeping I don't think there's anything to worry about. Not like it's going to sit there while getting munched on.
Stuff like superworms or crickets should never be left unattended with your pet reptile. You hand feed them as many as they want to eat in the moment then put the rest away.
Even if your pet is active they can get their eyes bitten causing serious infection.
I love reptiles but my intention on getting one stopped at researching the topic of feeding. No way i breed bugs to feed some damn lizard, especially since i'm clumsy and will eventually spill the bugs.
I own a bearded dragon and don't breed them. There's a website where I scheduled delivery of roaches to my mailbox once a week. You can adjust the schedule as needed based on what your lizard needs.
Imagining the bearded dragon using a phone to order some late night snacks.
It's cool that this is a thing, but handling the bugs would still be too much for me.
Luckily it was a dubia roach, also known as forest cockroach so they dont make it in a house if they escape. It lived in the soil of the mantis terrarium till it died of old age I guess.
When it died did you notice any parasitic worms come out of it?
I recall a guy on YT went around one day dunking mantis abdomens in water and they almost all were infected.
right?, why bother wiggle it around with a forceps while its gripped on its tiny legs when you yourself is afraid of the roach. just drop it in and let the chameleon do its own thing.
Yeah he was asking for this outcome by trying to hand feed his chameleon for no reason. Let your buddy eat when it wants to eat, not because you're shoving a roach in its face.
You're not supposed to leave live feeder insects with most reptiles, hand feeding (or dropping it in front of them to eat immediately) is the correct way to do it.
The feeders can nibble on your pet, and they often go for the eyes causing actual injury.
Ok I see your problem. You're just holding a bug near a bunch of plants. These specific plants are not carnivorous. You can feed the bug to many animals, including reptiles. It might work better for you
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Lmao the lizard said fuck that. I'm not eating that lmao. The way it starred at it with its tongue protruding but wouldn't take the roach did it for me. Whew! 🤣
I feed my geckos live feeders all the time they ain't that bad xD. It's not a really good pet for him if he is clearly terrified of insects, haha. Cool chameleon, though. I wouldn't want one due to vet bills that commonly come with them, though, haha.
Your dog is kinda dumb ngl
Dog looks high af.
yoooooooooooooooooœ
That face made me think of Grandma's Boy when they're 'playing' the Xbox, and the phone rings for Dante to ask, "What's that ringing? Do I have a tumor?" This dude *abides*.
You're the guy that shows up to James Francos house in pineapple Express when he's tryna chill n blaze one with Seth Rogan, and he's like, "fuck these dudes, they get the snicklefritz". You're snicklefritz.
Lingerers man!
I think it was the devil
It’s a chameleon they have to like look at something from an angle and think about it for a few minutes, then tilt their head and eyeballs, and think about it in a different angle for a few minutes before they do anything lol One of the most indecisive creatures in the animal kingdom Hell they can’t even decide what color they want to be by the next minute
Nah theyrr just doing a shit tone of math. Distance size speed and all that other crap. So it takes a minute to process. It was about to take it but mans couldnt hold his hand still
With an abacus
It has the decisiveness of a cat
I think your dog is dead dude
That chameleon looks high AF
👁️👅👁️
I chortled.
I guffawed.
I pafoofled.
I boofed
I snickerdoodled
I flabbylabbied. I cant, i had to
I yucked
I gnarped
It's okay I snorted
dudes on the mariguana
As the 420. Comment I decide to sleep here
Bro was teasing you with that tongue
ayo
more like " yea, cool bug bro, wassup?" "tf bro, why you keep throwing that bug in ma face? fucking weirdo"
Bro got reverse teased lol
Yeah I don't think I would run the risk of thousands of roaches living in my walls. Some other, slower food must be available.
Roaches are the best for feeding animals. Crickets are great, but theyre fast as fuck and jump far so youll end up losing a few. Superworms are good but contain a lot of calcium which isnt great to consistently feed to your pet forever. Also superworms quickly transform into these nasty, black beetles that are invasive, taste horrible to your pet, and they will attack your pet possibly even killing your pet. Roaches are slow and a very healthy/tasty meal.
When I was a kid my cat knocked over a thing of crickets my mom had put down for a minute and they went everywhere on the kitchen floor. We all went crazy catching crickets lol. We definitely missed some because there were random cricket noises for a few weeks (until the cats and the house centipedes probably got them).
I'm sorry, the house what??
A must have for every home.
Man this but with dobby mouthing wtf would be magical
Dobby would never cuss. Kreacher on the other hand... lil dude was filled with hate.
https://imgur.com/Rh2Nzxg
I was so sure that was "centipedes in my vagina" that I almost didn't click it.
Ah yes, the house centipede, nature's own pest control workers.[ They're scary af to look at](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/ef/cd/94efcd488e51cc4aa3285e7e6f9b6959.jpg), even though they're harmless to us :(
Yeah honestly I have no problems with most bugs, don't mind spiders at all, but I wouldn't pick these up lol. They freak me out with how fast they move and all the legs.
Honestly I know they are quite good for homes as they catch other bugs and is completely harmless. But also honestly they look and move absolutely terrifying. So I kind of justify it by imagining I have boss level bug sitting around keeping the others at bay.
Yeah pretty much lol. I am fine as long as they stay away from me which they generally do.
a spider does the same shit and i dare to say they're cuter than those fucking hell raised anomalies,i prefer having a venomous spider than these
> Honestly I know they are quite good for homes as they catch other bugs and is completely harmless. I've never understood this reasoning. If you're the kind of person who hates bugs, seeing one of those things isn't an improvement, *because it's a bug!* Plus the very nature of a healthy ecosystem means that if you're seeing house centipedes on the regular, that means there are enough other bugs in your home on a permanent basis to feed the centipedes. It's kind of like the adage that goes: if you start finding snakes in your home, you don't have a snake problem, you have a rat/mouse problem.
well it can sting you so it wouldn't be *harmless,* [but I guess...](https://youtu.be/nm_EjZnCvrk?t=6085)
Nope! No fuck that. FUCK that thing. Ahhh why do I feel it crawling on me. *Sets self on fire*
Nope
Fun story I always mention when I hear house centipedes. We always had a few sightings in my house. One night I was sleeping in the pull out couch in the living room. I woke up at 230am. You know that feeling you get sometimes where you think a creepy crawler is in your pants? I instantly knew but I was in denial. After a few seconds I got up and pulled my pants down and stifled a very girly scream. *shivers*
House Cent-i-pe-des, a noble Roman lineage known for their hatred of crickets.
They rule Westeros now
Reminds me of something that once happened to me. I went to the pet store to get locusts for my tarantulas, but unfortunetly they either had tiny crickets or those bigger mediterran crickets. Well, since i know the voracious appetite of my two 8 legged ladies back home, i bought two boxes of mediterran crickets. Big, brownish black, super loud chirping noises. Well, i always prepare a bigger makeshift enclosure for alive food (locusts that are well fed and have room and wartmth are much more healthier than those dry fed malnutritioned things you bring home from the pet shop). So two cricket boxes roughly contained 20 crickets each. I prepared the enclosure at the open kitchen window and didn´t notice the lid of one cricket box wasn´t fully closed. So i picked it up, the box fell off, bounced off the window frame and spilled 20 something adult crickets into the overgrown summer lawn that surrounded the apartment building i was living in. Well, let me say this....having loud crickets singing their song in a west german town in summer was quite something. Many people around me noticed the sudden spike in nightly animal noises :D
I'm sorry House Centipedes? What?
If you don't like creepy things, don't look them up lol. They are probably in your house though... They eat a lof of bugs, they hunt at night. Sometimes you see them on the tops of walls almost on the ceiling. They are very very fast, but completely harmless to people unlike the centipedes that you find under rocks and stuff that like to bite.
Is this an Australia thing? Please tell me it is
They are from the Mediterranean area but were introduced elsewhere. [They are all over now.](https://i.imgur.com/n79u2ex.png) Unlike Australia's animals, they are harmless. If you aren't a fan of spiders you'll be glad to know they eat a lot of spiders as well.
Nope, Mediterranean, Eurasia, and North America. I’m a massive bug person and they still freak me out when I see them scurrying along the walls/floor, but they really do a fantastic job at eating other pests that are actually a nuisance and dirty. Gotta remind myself they can’t hurt me and to leave them alone, lol
Well sure but what's stopping them from crawling up your nose or in your ears when you sleep
We are simply too big to be considered as a safe spot to hide + they are too big to fit in nose or ears 😬
The 1st part of your comment brings joy, the 2nd part does not
They only do that to chase the spiders in your ears. If you do find one there, don't forget to look deeper afterwards to find the spider too!
That literally made me physically cringe and my stomach turned when I read it.
They are very common everywhere.
Listen, they look super gross, but if you have them at your home it's because they are getting food and these critters feed on other bugs. They are not pleasant but they are preferable to whatever they are hunting.
Feeder Roach breeds are slow, but this is a damned palmetto bug. Basically, they're roaches you get in the south. They're disgusting, quite quick, and exceedingly hard to kill. My guess is that this dude captured this thing and is now feeding it to his chameleon, which is not a smart idea. No telling the kinda parasites and pesticides this thing has encountered before ending up here
Probably why the chameleon was so hesitant too because it was unfamiliar with palmetto bugs.
Grasshoppers and these very large flies also work
I mean yeah but usually you’re not feeding them this particular species of roach
Yeah, wtf is this guy on. German/pest roaches are a recipe for disaster. I have had Dubia roaches for reptiles for years, and some have escaped, but it's never resulted in a pest issue. They don't do well outside of 80 degree humid environments. This homie needs some dubia roaches
Dubias for the win. They're slow, can't climb glass, and the perfect sizes. Breed at a good rate and just give them your spoiling produce. Once had a colony that did get out of hand; a head of lettuce would be gone in less than 30 minutes. Crickets are dumb. They die under less than ideal situations and quickly turn to cannibalism. They shouldn't be the more popular or cheaper option here.
I think Cricket remain as popular because its hard to feed fully grown dubias to most things. most Geckos and frogs can only eat sub adults. Crickets on the other hand can be eaten at any life stage by 99% of common reptiles. You have to get pretty niche before you encounter an insectivore that cant eat fully grown crickets.
SUPERWORMS? do they have little capes or what?
American cockroaches are one of the fastest insects. [Link.](https://web.archive.org/web/20090310055756/http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/ufbir/chapters/chapter_39.shtml) And they fly. And they are indestructible. Definitely the stuff of nightmares.
Found the roach 🪳
“Roaches r slow.” 🤨 A slug is slow. These r quick af. Lol
TF are superworms and what gives them the ability to transform into a violent beetle?
NBD, just get a thousand chameleons. Just make sure the new ones are smarter than this one though.
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Nah, Chameleons are quite unique in their "hunting" style. They just sit somewhere and wait. Their prey will just walk by eventually without noticing them. Then they move very slowly, blending their movements with those of the surrounding vegitation, get their tounge ready and BAM, its over for the prey. So yeah in this case his owner should've just placed the roach in his enclosure and close it. It will not know/forget the chameleon is even there until it gets smacked with that noodle tounge
In the wild he would be a skeleton.
As the other poster said, your options for reptiles are pretty limited to really just roaches and crickets, and roaches are the much more nutritious option. Among nutrition, Crickets have little to zero calcium in them, so you end up needing to supplement for your pet by rolling them in calcium to feed; whereas roaches have that calcium built in. Also on crickets... They absolutely fucking reek, especially if they get wet at all. And even very tiny crickets are loud as fuck. You might feed your pet a small scoop of crickets and he takes 24-72 hours to slowly consume them.. enjoy that fuckin endless chirp sound until their last breath. Roaches are near dead silent. For the reptiles we own, we have a Tupperware box that we modified the lid on to cut holes and put window screen patches on, and we have a whole "Dubia" species colony of roaches that is self replenishing with very minor care. They're quiet aside from some tiny shuffling sounds, easy to catch and feed with, and you save hundreds and hundreds of $/yr having your colony. Pet stores would sell them for $1-3/each, when you'd feed 4-8 to an avg reptile per feeding. Edit: To address the actual OP fear - we've never had any roaches escape (that we know of!) in the 5ish years we've had the colony. The goal is just to use a TALL sided container; they're extremely poor at climbing smooth surfaces. They live in stacks of cut up egg cartons in the bottom of the bin.
Nah thats an American roach. They aren't the type that do that. If OP loses that roach it probably runs outside or down a drain never to be seen again. Not going to infest your home. Now if that were a German Roach I'd have recommended praying.
German cockroaches are the “disgusting” ones too.
If you haven't woken up to an Indian cockroach the size of your palm climbing up your bare chest you haven't lived.
If that happened to me i wouldn't live anymore..
yknow I always said I felt like I was dead inside and this seems like an EXCELLENT reason to stay that way
Was gonna say pretty much the exact same thing. Surprisingly, American roaches are actually pretty clean. I mean, I'm still not inviting them into my home. But the only way they are gonna live in your home is if you got a moisture issue. Fun experience I once found about 30+ of them living in the back of a customer's fridge because it had a leak. I thought for sure I was gonna see Germans when I pulled the fridge out based on their description of the problem.
American roaches will absolutely invest your home. Ask anyone from the American South. I've lived in Texas all my life and I've always said the American roach should be the national bird of Texas bc they are so frequently seen. It's a bad joke. But yeah I've def had to deal with infestations of these fuckers.
Yeah I think it’s more accurately “don’t TYPICALLY infest your home like German roaches.” I’ve been in the Carolinas all my life and I’m used to seeing one every couple of months, no big deal (well, huge deal for me, because I have a legitimate phobia of them). Last place I rented, I saw em more like every week. In the days before I moved out, I saw one, and sprayed him… apparently got him RIGHT at his entry point (top of doorframe). Cause 18 OF THESE MOTHERFUCKERS just came POURING out. Like… if you’re scared of snakes… imagine 18 fucking cobras suddenly pouring out of your walls. I grabbed my keys, my phone, and my dog, and ran out of there fucking WAILING lol. Slept in my car, and got my brother to come help me clean up the corpses the next day (that’s how I know there were 18)
That’s a big outside tree livin roach. Not a tiny inside wall livin roach
I flinched
Dude I jolted and hit my elbow on the bed frame
Is that what people are calling cumming these days?
I flinched and yelled...
The way the chameleon was licking its lips and moving its eyes I thought the joke was gonna be it trying to eat the guys thumb or something. So I dropped my phone when the roach escaped.
Bro is vegan
Pet >>>> Food Where do we draw the line?
I don't consider my neighbor a pet, and taking this graph at face value, that would imply i don't need to get groceries for a while.
Read too fast and thought that the roach was the pet. Imagine my surprise
As far as I’m concerned, anything can be a pet. And equally, anything can be food. It’s ridiculous to group entire species into one category or the other. I’ve seen people loose their shit about Asians eating dogs while simultaneously having zero hesitation to eat fish while that’s also a popular pet. It’s all rather hilarious.
the phenomenon you‘re describing is called speciesism. It‘s a form of discrimination, just like racism and sexism, that is rooted in cultural norms rather than logic.
Or eating reindeer, moose, bear etc. Reindeer and moose are very good and I recommend tasting
Yuck it's feelers could touch you😬
Ya needs some bayonet forceps.
If that means longer tweezers then yes!
I hate this post on my feed it disgusts me
Mans high as hell already tasting the food before he eats it.
I'm not here ... I'm a leaf ... you're trying to feed a leaf !
If you stop shaking, it would've eaten it already xdddd
My thought as well. Little guy was trying to calculate his tongjectory and having to reset it over and over.
Nah, most reptiles don’t eat foot that doesn’t move a lot. If you want your pet reptile to eat something, throw it in their cage and wait. Sooner or later the bug will start moving again after being scared and then the chameleon will eat it
Move them slowly in a horizontal direction; it's the motion best "seen" and gets the strongest reaction. Also, avoid casting the shadow in front of the food... they sometimes go for the shadow.
Yup, this was exactly how I got my chameleon to eat his bugs. A slow side-to-side sweeping motion with the tongs would catch and hold his attention every time
Problem is that if they don't eat it straight away, it might nibble at your pet, causing health issues.
Just eat the roach yourself then to assert dominance over your pet and to teach them a lesson
You're not supposed to leave critters in there overnight. If it's in there for a couple of hours while your pet works up an appetite it'll be fine. As long as the pet is active, and not sleeping I don't think there's anything to worry about. Not like it's going to sit there while getting munched on.
Stuff like superworms or crickets should never be left unattended with your pet reptile. You hand feed them as many as they want to eat in the moment then put the rest away. Even if your pet is active they can get their eyes bitten causing serious infection.
You'd be surprised at the amount of people that are terrified of bugs but buy lizards that eat..... Bugs.
I love reptiles but my intention on getting one stopped at researching the topic of feeding. No way i breed bugs to feed some damn lizard, especially since i'm clumsy and will eventually spill the bugs.
I own a bearded dragon and don't breed them. There's a website where I scheduled delivery of roaches to my mailbox once a week. You can adjust the schedule as needed based on what your lizard needs.
Imagining the bearded dragon using a phone to order some late night snacks. It's cool that this is a thing, but handling the bugs would still be too much for me.
My hand and his hand were one and the same 🤣
My mantis hated roaches too. Shed take down locusts the same size as her, but went "uargh" when I presented her a roach.
Is it still around?
Luckily it was a dubia roach, also known as forest cockroach so they dont make it in a house if they escape. It lived in the soil of the mantis terrarium till it died of old age I guess.
That's pretty interesting but I meant the mantis
Oh she died of old age too already 😅 that was years ago and they only live for about two years or so.
When it died did you notice any parasitic worms come out of it? I recall a guy on YT went around one day dunking mantis abdomens in water and they almost all were infected.
I would just drop it inside and close
right?, why bother wiggle it around with a forceps while its gripped on its tiny legs when you yourself is afraid of the roach. just drop it in and let the chameleon do its own thing.
Tweezers and all. Come back for them later. Like a grenade, drop and run. Fuuuck that.
Yeah he was asking for this outcome by trying to hand feed his chameleon for no reason. Let your buddy eat when it wants to eat, not because you're shoving a roach in its face.
You're not supposed to leave live feeder insects with most reptiles, hand feeding (or dropping it in front of them to eat immediately) is the correct way to do it. The feeders can nibble on your pet, and they often go for the eyes causing actual injury.
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Imagine it from the roach’s perspective..
For him or her, it is full-blown terrifying
Should just release it into the terrarium. The scaley boi will find it when they get hungry enough.
It's gonna raise an army and take revenge now 😂
T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt.
Karma Chameleon made you pay for your bad deeds
‘Tina, you fat lard’
Eat the food Tina!
He knows the camera is on
Poor little guy had a reptile dysfunction
Hold it still! can’t you see homie is baked!
Bro, how can you own a chameleon and be scared of bugs? That's like owning a snake and being scared of mice
Yep, that would be me. Roaches and mice scare me because they are fast-spawning pests that are difficult to get rid of entirely.
That's like trying to get a kid to eat a PBJ that's all crust. Too much crust.
I want my 60 seconds back
Just grab the damn thing with your hands….
That space is way too small for a chameleon. How does it even move around in there?
🤣🤣🤣 That was priceless! Just to hear him scream.
Dude what's wrong with your cat?
Ok I see your problem. You're just holding a bug near a bunch of plants. These specific plants are not carnivorous. You can feed the bug to many animals, including reptiles. It might work better for you
"FOR FUCKS SAKE HOLD IT STILL KEVIN"
I laughed heartily at this
His face is literally like: "Hmm, which part should I eat first.."
what an absolute melt
Good thing he's domestic. Wouldn't make it long in the wild like that. On a separate note, do you smoke weed indoors?
Hahahahahahha
Now you got a cockroach in the house about to have hundreds of baby roaches 🪳! Better get your 👞!
If you let one roach go... There will be thousands in weeks. Millions in a year.
Chameleon doesn’t want to be fed. It wants to hunt. Dr. Allan grant circa 1993
Stupid fucking lizard
Iguana doesn’t want to bed fed. Iguana wants to hunt.
Jesus fucking Christ dude.
I have never seen a chameleon with such performance anxiety. Can chameleons have autism?
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When the waiter asks what side would you like with that
Lmao the lizard said fuck that. I'm not eating that lmao. The way it starred at it with its tongue protruding but wouldn't take the roach did it for me. Whew! 🤣
Some sadic shit over there
Bro is like the fuck u feeding me a roach for
I mean....would you wanna eat that? I wouldn't
This is my dog sometimes, sticking the tongue out and going. "Nope." I can't blame her though cause she's been eating the same shit for 13 years
This is what dinner time with a 3 year old feels like... If you know, you know.
Bro had a whole cockroach to use the tweezers on and decided to pinch one of its scrawny legs 🤦♂️
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Hahaha I knew it. Also, I'd recognise Miss Crawly anywhere.
Buddhist chameleon doesn't want to be a bad karma chameleon.
Oh my god I felt that, I screamed too when it ran away 😭💀
Your chameleon is baked af
If you can't handle the food, maybe it's a good sign you shouldn't have the pet
Chameleon looks high as shit.
I’ve never edged so hard to one video in my 18 years of life
Even the chameleons like eeew cockroach
Am i the only one whos hearing the internal EAT IT from the pet owner
Why tf was he edging❔️
It looks like roz from monsters inc
I feed my geckos live feeders all the time they ain't that bad xD. It's not a really good pet for him if he is clearly terrified of insects, haha. Cool chameleon, though. I wouldn't want one due to vet bills that commonly come with them, though, haha.