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[Kira]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]I inserted a gene into bacteria to make them glow fluorescent once. Maybe they're trying to train us for exciting careers playing with fish.[/colorost_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Oh yes. Unfortunately transgenic animals are not yet approved for import/export/sale by the FDA, even as pets. So, no-go for glow in the dark fish in Singapore yet.[/colorost_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Oo, glow-in-the-dark fish. Â I had lots of fish when I was a kid -- I'd get four of them, name them after the Fantastic Four or the Beatles or something, and take care of them until they died, then repeat the process. Â Several of my fish were neon tetras. Â I thought that was so cool, having glow-in-the-dark fish... of course, I was too young to realize this wasn't something that occurred naturally.

Fish kind of suck as pets, though, considering how short-lived they are. Â Not as short-lived as the seven crickets I kept in a small container and didn't think of feeding, but that's another story....[/colorost_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]We had a grasshopper once. it was a realy big one that either me or my brother caught in the yard, we kept it in a peanut butter jar for some three months, then the jar was gone, i dont know if it died or someone let it out. :lol: That was how i learned that incects molt :lol:

(Watches as yet another thread vears hopelessly off topic :lol[/colorost_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Seriously, what topic?

This would be the one thread that [iost_uid0]doesn't[/iost_uid0] have a particular topic to mutate. :eyeroll:[/colorost_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Reminds me of the ROTW. (Rat Of The Week, a pet that lasted exactly six days - until my mother returned from holiday and threw a tantrum about it. Luckily, I didn't lose any money on it.)

Of course, my passion for small furry mammals may stem from the fact that we once owned two guineapigs, both of which became increasingly big and fat without any apparent loss of speed or agility. How I could tell? From trying to catch them after their bi-weekly "free strolls" in the garden pen.

And yeah, the topic is pretty much sunk. What was it about again ?

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]I'm positive I've heard about someone making a transgenic hamster or something that expressed an enzyme (beta-galactosidase) to make it blue all over.[/colorost_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well it was originaly for general discussion of the site, not that i or anyone else for that matter cares. Just making an observation [/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[quoteost_uid0="Kira"][color=#000000ost_uid0]I'm positive I've heard about someone making a transgenic hamster or something that expressed an enzyme (beta-galactosidase) to make it blue all over.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]I remember something in stem cell research circles about glowing green mice...[/colorost_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Katy Jane"]We had a grasshopper once. it was a realy big one that either me or my brother caught in the yard, we kept it in a peanut butter jar for some three months, then the jar was gone, i dont know if it died or someone let it out. :lol: That was how i learned that incects molt :lol:[/quoteost_uid0]
Unpleasant, but at least you had the sense to have only [iost_uid0]one[/iost_uid0] grasshopper. Â I collected seven crickets while visiting relatives in Kazabazua and brought them home in a big jar. Â I was about eight, and it honestly didn't occur to me that I ought to feed them. Â (You'd think it would at least have occurred to my parents....)

When we got back to London, which was where I lived at the time, I found out we had crickets there too, so I added one to the jar. Â It was bigger than the others, I noticed. Â And then I noticed something else. Â I didn't have seven crickets anymore. Â I had five.

When I woke up the next morning, I had three, plus the big new guy. Â The latter jumped down the sink later that day when Mom was washing the jar. Â By evening, I had only one cricket, and my parents told me it was time to let him go. Â So I did. Â I'll never know how he made out in a town of bigger crickets, but at least he was no longer forced to [iost_uid0]eat them[/iost_uid0]. Â (I hope he didn't continue to out of habit....)

I don't know how well I understood what was going on at the time, but looking back on it now, [iost_uid0]boy[/iost_uid0] does it make my skin crawl.[/colorost_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]I don't know how well I understood what was been going on at the time, but looking back on it now, boy does it make my skin crawl.[/quoteost_uid0]

It's a cricket-eat-cricket world.

I once caught a copper-tailed skink (an Australian lizard). I put it in a little margarine tub in the backyard, and gave it a way to climb out and in. Oddly enough, it declined to crawl back in.[/colorost_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]The lightning bugs we use to catch use to do that...

"Mommy, Why were their five lightning bugs last night and now there are only 2?"

"Well they must have ecaped."

"But how..."

:lol:[/colorost_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Nan"]I remember something in stem cell research circles about glowing green mice...[/quoteost_uid0]
How about monkeys with fingernails that glow green?

And as for short-lived pets-- one word: spiders. I'm obsessed with catching spiders whenever I see them. I've kept about five so far. Two last year: Anna, who ran away, and Mr. Morden, who died after I apparently fed him a poisonous worm.

Then earlier this month I caught two spiders in a row and my dad caught a third. The first two I caught (Aragog and Shelob) are now dead. The third (Ari Ben Zayn) is still alive, but not likely for long because I have nothing to feed it with.

And if you that's weird, consider this: after my spiders die, I don't throw them away. I pickle them. In alcohol.

Yes, I have jars of dead pickled spiders sitting around in my room.

Scared of me now? ::devil smiley::[/colorost_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Remind me never to go to Singapore. :dead:


At least not until they get the inevitable real-life horror movie out of their systems.


[iost_uid0][color=redost_uid0][bost_uid0]NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD PICKLED SPIDERS![/bost_uid0][/colorost_uid0][/iost_uid0][/colorost_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]As long as we are on the subject of strange pets, my brother once caught sevrial sunfish and kept in a big tank in the yard for the summer, they were fun, because if you threw a fly in the tank they would practly jump out of the water to get it.

My favroit animal to catch was (big surprise :lol frogs. but we never tried to actualy keep them we just let them go again in an hour or so.[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Gatac"]Reminds me of the ROTW. (Rat Of The Week, a pet that lasted exactly six days - until my mother returned from holiday and threw a tantrum about it. Luckily, I didn't lose any money on it.)[/quoteost_uid0]
Had any rats since? We're on numbers five and six at the moment (aka Josie and Lotus).

And a suggestion about the book idea - why not release compliations of fivers and such in an ebook form? That way people could have complete seasons on their computers without having to save every single fiver manually which would be rather time consuming to say the least.[/colorost_uid0]

[Gatac]

[quoteost_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Had any rats since? We're on numbers five and six at the moment (aka Josie and Lotus).[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]No; likewise the guinea pigs have gone (given to a local zoo) because we felt we couldn't care for them any longer - a few years ago, it seemed like *everyone* in the family was going through a lot of stress, and the prospect of caring for pets was something we considered impossible then. We haven't tried to start anew ever since.

As for me, well, I guess I'd like to try a rat again when I have a steady job - I quite liked ours the week we had it...

Concerning the book, I'd definately be in favor of something like that, but be advised that I currently lack the funding to obtain books other than Spycraft RPG supplements, which eat my entire budget as of now...

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Ah, strange pets...

When I was seven or eight, I had a praying mantis as a pet. I kept it in a box and fed it crickets, grasshoppers and butterflies. I used to collect butterflies, and the ones I considered not pretty enough to put in my collection, I just fed to the mantis. It devoured them... there were only a few little pieces of wings left in the box...

And when the mantis died, I buried it... and a year later, a big pink apartment building was built exactly on the site of its grave. It is now officially the insect with the most impressive tombstone monument ever,

Zeke, are you sure you didn`t have a mantis too? It is a ferocious insect, believe me, and many people easily mistake it for an ordinary cricket or grasshopper...

My butterfly collection is still here and intact, by the way... they`re all pinned with needles on the cardboard, 20 or so of them, and displayed on the shelf in my living room... they are not pickled, but surprisingly they haven`t decomposed at all after 13 years...[/colorost_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]they are not pickled, but surprisingly they haven`t decomposed at all after 13 years...[/quoteost_uid0]

That's because there's nothing to decompose. They're all exoskeleton with a few squishy bits on the inside, which nobody will miss once they dessicate.[/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Butterflies are the only thing my cat Sasha can successfully catch and kill. Unlike Fatty--who once left the top half of a hummingbird on the carpet--she's not very good at being a cat.

One year, when there were many, we kept finding savaged butterflies, often still alive. Either she neglected to kill them or they managed to get away despite being incapable of flight. Probably a bit of both.

Little psychos.[/colorost_uid0]