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Subject: Re: Thanks for the cricket help
Posted by Collette on August 29, 1998 at 13:16:44:

In Reply to: Re: Thanks for the cricket help posted by Bourbon on August 27, 1998 at 22:03:31:

We went to the pet store this afternoon and picked up 6 crickets.
I put them in a mason jar (1 alone first) and put Buffy, the
oldest sg in there. She hung on the side of the jar by her
back legs and absolutely POUNCED on the bug! Ate his head and
guts and turned around and got out. So we stuck 3 more bugs
in there (by accident - trying for one, but since I prefer not
to touch them....) Boomer went NUTS! Grabbed one in each hand
and the third in her mouth! She's still in the jar finishing
them off! Thanks for all your help! BTW - we are taking Buffy
in on Monday and leaving her to spend a day or so in a cage next
door to their male, then depending on how that goes, we will
put them together and leave them for a week. Then it's Boomer's
turn. We want them bred fairly close together in time so we
don't have the disappearing baby syndrome...

Actually, when we bought them, we brought them back to the
store every 3 days to weigh them and check their progress as they
were still quite young. After several weeks, the store owner
approached us with the idea of breeding. He can't keep up with
the demand himself and had been watching us and our abilities
and felt confident we could handle the responsibility. He is
quite picky with adoptive families - doesn't just sell them to
anyone - has been breeding for several years, but his son was
in a serious accident and is in a coma, so has pulled back in
the glider end of his life.

So... there's the reader's digest version of why we are doing
what we are doing and why now... (actually we are a month
behind, were supposed to start breeding in early August, but
I just thought my babies were still too young - they are both
nearly 1 year old, which is well past the age they CAN breed,
but I still think of them as my babies...)

Thanks for all your help and interest!
Collette

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