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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 131477" data-attributes="member: 27883">Animals, including "bugs" and other creepy crawlers have been my profession for a long time. I've been associating with "animal people" for several decades now. That being the case, I can say with authority and certainty: Animal people are all weird! All of us man. We all march to the beat of a little bit different drum.Personally, I embrace it. Love it. My daughter is known as "The Chicken Girl" because she knows so much about chickens and caring for them. That's a fun conversation when standing amongst a bunch of "normal" parents with "normal" kids. And then she starts talking about how we take the hawk out and kill cute and fuzzy bunnies, or our numerous breeding colonies of roaches and tortoises. Now she'll be talking all about how her P. mutica darted out of its underground lair and snatched up that dubia… Yeah. We get some straaaaaaaaaaaannngggge looks from people sometimes. I don't mind. My daughter has been telling people about Blaptica dubia since the age of 1.5. I had to explain to the pediatrician what that was at her 18 month  well baby check up.</blockquote>