It Finally Happened....

[carbyville]

I got Claudia just about two months ago now and everything I read mentioned that occasionally, a cricket will break free and you'll find it roaming around. I was proud that I hadn't yet had this happen.

Until today.

I was sitting here working, minding my business and all of a sudden there's this cricket just casually taking a stroll across my carpet. I manage to snag it and brought it to Claudia's cage. So she had a little dessert with her breakfast today lol.

 

[Kayroxyoursox]

Wow. Mine get out all the time. Once I was laying in bed watching tv and out of the corner of my eye I saw a cricket crawl across the bed right by my face. I screamed and it jumped off the bed never to be seen again

 

[Wowbango]

I got Claudia just about two months ago now and everything I read mentioned that occasionally, a cricket will break free and you'll find it roaming around. I was proud that I hadn't yet had this happen.

Until today.

I was sitting here working, minding my business and all of a sudden there's this cricket just casually taking a stroll across my carpet. I manage to snag it and brought it to Claudia's cage. So she had a little dessert with her breakfast today lol.

Geez, I have this problem all the time. Get used to it

 

[carbyville]

Wow. Mine get out all the time. Once I was laying in bed watching tv and out of the corner of my eye I saw a cricket crawl across the bed right by my face. I screamed and it jumped off the bed never to be seen again

LOL. I was really grossed out by them when I first got Claudia, but now it's like nothing to me. But I am pretty sure that I'd still scream if I saw one on my bed.

Geez, I have this problem all the time. Get used to it

Oh yeah, I'm ready for more. I'm sure this is just the first of MANY escapees haha.

 

[carbyville]

Just found another one LOL. Crawling up my ARM. I must have lost a couple during a feeding and didn't even notice. Sneaky little things.

 

[absolutbill]

You'll get used to them. I tried discoids one time, and was super careful to only cupfeed them to my panther who was a quick eater. However, once he grabbed 2 at a time, one fell off his tongue and scampered into his cage. I wrapped the pipe that runs into his misting overflow reservoir in tape to prevent it from escaping, knowing my husband would divorce me if he ever found out. Never found the discoid until MONTHS later when it was the size of my palm and I had to enlist hubby's assistance to dispose of the monster discoid. Never did fess up to him that it was not an escapee from outside the house

 

[JaniP]

Holy cow Michelle, that made me want to cry!
For an owner of a pet that eats bugs I am SUPER squeamish. I finally, only last week, became okay with holding silk worms. The most unoffensive of feeders. Before my hand feeding has consisted of holding them on a little clear plate. Lol!

 

[JaniP]

And now that I've looked up a discoid I want to puke and possibly die along with all of that crying.

 

[Trillian]

I was feeding the reptiles at the shelter today, always tricky when it's not your own setup! Two crickets escaped and I felt like a horrible failure and that all the shelter staff would be horribly traumatised.

Then, one at a time, the tiny morons walked slowly across the tiny clear area of floor and I was able to capture them with my cricket ninja fingers and feed my scaly buddies!

Phew...

 

[DBDEAN]

jeez - I loose them all the freaking time. And then we have an ant problem when they die. Why do ants love crickets sooo much. We keep our house super clean - cause my husbands anal - so ants showing up - to him - is like a personal faliure. And one min there are no ants then BOOM a ton...and its because of the stupid dead crickets.

They love to jump down front of my blouse - i swear it. That has happened like...4 times.

Then yesterday I was feeding crickets and a random dubie just came crawling across my neck and down my shirt. I scooped it out and threw it in the cage...so gross

 

[SocialNumb]

I've lost a couple but the thing is, I regularly find baby to mid size lizards in my house so I'm thinking they eat them. They don't bother me at all, I like "creepy crawlies". Yesterday I heard a thump on the screen cage so I looked back and there was a tiny lizard crawling up the screen. Chloë was trying to eat it. That worries me some.

 

[MamatoElvis]

This is why I do all my cricket feeding outside. Yuck!!! I really didn't think they would bother me when I first got a chameleon. After feeding a snake I figured bugs would be nothing but the crickets squick me out like nothing else.

 

[addicks]

My dog just found one and ate him for a snack. He was even still white from dusting it with calcium with vitamins, yum.

 

[mastifflvr]

They get out on us but I don't bother hunting them down. I have a cat that loves to eat a cricket now and then and he never lets them get far. Thankfully he knows the chameleon is off limits for hunting.