Meet Gimpy!

[Noella]

Got a new pet! His name's Gimpy! He's a small little brown cricket with hopper leg bit off. And he's still alive and eating, and what else? Being a cricket.

 

[Aleena]

He's not gonna be food?

 

[Noella]

Nope. He was being cannibalized in a food bowl in the main cricket tank. (I keep fresh food in there all the time so they don't eat each other.) I took him out, put him in this small container, not expecting him to live much longer. I was going to feed him to the large garden spider outside, but something told me not to and I tried to help another cannibalized cricket as well, but Gimpy was stronger and ate him. He perked up after day three. He wouldn't eat greens so I fed him fish food. He's eating that over the collard greens.

Today, he jumped out of his 'hospital cup' inside a critter keeper. I put him back into his hospital cup and watched him. He jumped out again and began walking around.

 

[Aleena]

Good luck with your new Gimpy Jimney Cricket!

 

[Noella]

Thanks. I've had another cricket called Big Momma! I mean she was so big that she couldn't be fed to Allie. Bigger the space between her eyes. Big Momma doesn't live anymore. Short lived, aren't they?

Got to turn in. I'm getting tired. Good night.

 

[BeardieBaby]

Awww I think that is very sweet you keep a cricket as a pet. I do have a little but of guilt feeding crickets to my Baby, but they seem to be eaten fast and go through no pain. (Hopefully)

 

[Noella]

The garden spider outside made an egg sac. They say that if they've laid an egg sac, then that means they're going to die soon.

I do feel guilty having to feed crickets to mine as well. Gimpy would've been dead by now if it weren't for me. I'm thinking that the crickets were looking for something else to eat. They've eaten the rabbit pellets.