Charity Shop Find...

I love a good dig in a charity shop, most of their 'stock' is crap, granted but occasionally a gem appears, giving a feeling comparable to finding a crisp £5 note in ones pocket.
And today this is it....

For the princely sum of one gold coin, I am now the proud owner of a copy of 'cats with guns' and the contents of this book you ask? To be fair it pretty much says it on the Tin... cats, with guns.

and my personal favorite...

 Man that cat looks like he can see forever , he knows your secrets AND your desires

I just love the idea that someone believed there was a market for such a book, especially with the newfangled invention known as the internet...' hmmm....cats ai? you know what they need.... More Guns!'

Brilliant, just Brilliant

I'm more of a dog man me :D

Cats with guns, coming to a bookstore near you!

My Dog Sticks his Tongue Out

These are prime!

and my personal favourite...

This is probably one of my most favourite things in the world, party because he looks hillarious, and party because I'm pretty sure he doesn't realise he's doing it :D

There is nothing more fantastically awesome to an invertebrate keeper when their insects shed ESPECIALLY when they shed to adult and ESPECIALLY when they are female (more often than not) because females are on the whole bigger, more epic (especially in the case of mantid's and phasmid's (stick insects) ) and are more productive (they make babies) and it is usually much  better to have a high female to male ratio for this reason :D

So when my sub adult female shed to adult and finally earned her wings i was more than ecstatic :D

she looks so much like a leaf!:D  males on the other hand look a bit weedy in comparison having functional wings that spoil the leaf illusion somewhat...
also i love the females facial features...

they just look a bit clueless, like a confused Tusken Raider

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These things literally scare the crap out of me, but my little leafy is like a raider crafted from marshmallow, with a hint of green ^_^

Also my mantid's have all been shedding too, which means they are happy :D but they show no noticeable difference apart from longer legs...bless

Herman Gets Naked

Well, yesterday my hermit crab decided his skin was a little tight, so shed it, and now he looks like a prawn caught in a road traffic accident, its quite cool because i managed to snap a picture of him out of his shell, he looks disgusting doesn't he? well my freind that is the result of millions of years of evolution...

His claw has lost its colour but im sure this will reappear again when his exoskeleton all hardens up, i say 'he' but really i have no idea in the sexual mechanisms of crabs, so gender hasn't really been established, i need to het herman/ita a mate as his mate died a little while ago and so i may pick some more up at the AES bugshow in october if i have the funds and means to get there...
In other news my dog did one of my most favourite things today ....
This

Sleeping with his tounge out :D, he has done it alot of late, must be old age ....