There are inevitably a few cold-blooded animal lovers in everyone's circle of friends.
Spiders, snakes, -horned frogs , lizards, geckos, These scary "cold-blooded" animals are becoming new popular pets. is mainly called "climb pets", and enthusiasts who feed them call themselves "climb friends".
"Cute" and "Horrible" are a pair of antonyms that are often used on them. The former comes from crawlers and the latter comes from most people who don't understand the world of crawler pets.
Not being close to people, not being moved, and being trouble-free is the common understanding of these two types of people about climbing pets. For modern people who are busy with life, climbing pets may be a more suitable companion to each other than cats and dogs.
The pet world ruled by cats and dogs is being invaded by crawling pets.
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▎Climbing pet New World
There is a saying among crawlers: Once you get into the pit, it will be difficult for you to have only one crawler pet. For newbies who have just entered the trap, the freshness has not yet subsided, and enthusiasm is at its maximum, and this is even more so.
As early as when A Meng was studying in Australia, she had watched videos of crawling bloggers on B.com and was very interested in leopard print gong . The gecko, which is the gecko, is the leopard print gecko. It has a more lively variety. It has no suction cups, but it can jump.
Coco
Because I still have no place to live, A Meng's idea of raising leopard prints to guard the geography has not been implemented for a long time.
Last year, at the recommendation of a friend, she found a store selling crawling pets on Taobao, and the store happened to be sold with leopard print guards.
She systematically learned about the leopard print geologically and found that it was not noisy, it was relatively hygienic, and the feeding conditions and costs were within an acceptable range. So she spent 88 yuan to buy the first leopard print geologically. It is a mother guarding the geography, and A Meng named it Coco.
▲ The molting cocoa
Leopard print geological can obtain various genes and colors through reproduction, and the patterns, color, body shape, etc. will change differently. In order to "get married" for Coco, A Meng bought another second guard.
The color of the second male guard is close to the grapefruit, and the tail is pink, and it is named Pudding.
Pudding
Before the cocoa and the pudding were mixed, there were soon two new members at home, honey orange, big-eyed cute cucumber yellow and bright yellow-colored black spotted blood glutinous rice.
At this point, A Meng's leopard print geological family has been completed. They were kept in their own nests, occasionally coming out to play, slid on the screen, or mischievously escaped to the corner of their home to play hide-and-seek with A Meng.
Curity
Patient and carefulness are also indispensable for raising crawling pets. For example, sometimes molting and getting stuck in the eyes, you have to take a cotton swab and pick it out carefully, and then apply some nutrient water to the eyelids, but the process is not always smooth.
"With their IQ, it cannot understand what you are doing, it will keep struggling, you must have the patience to fight it."
▲ Sneezing blood glutinous rice
Although there is not much interaction in raising pet crawling pets, it has its own fun. Cold-blooded animals do not have the concept of obedience and master and servant, but they can identify the feeding person through their smell and feed them for a long time. After they become familiar with them, they can touch them or even get started.
" Sometimes it makes you feel very decompressed, such as when you observe it eating and molting. Sometimes it will also make some cute expressions, which will make you feel very healed.”
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▎There is a zoo in the room
Xiao Chen, a friend who brought A Meng into the trap, got his first crawling pet in July last year.
It was a Uji horned frog with green body and symmetrical amber spots on his back. It seemed to be with someone, always bulging, staring at its black eyes, and not looking at people.
horned frog "brew" "
This horned frog was the result of her "fight" with her mother. She once owned a cat, but she loved to run around at home and was often whispered by her mother. Later, Xiao Chen took back a small breeding box, which contained this tiny horned frog, which was clean, did not occupy space, and would not run around.
Mom was once pleased with Xiao Chen's abandonment of raising a cat. But my mother did not expect that things would go out of control since then.
Not too much After a long time, under the temptation of the seller's circle of friends of Taobao store owners, Xiao Chen bought another maned lizard lizard. She described the feeling of seeing a maned lizard for the first time at that time as "at one hit".
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Chen brought back the leopard print geography, tree frog , eye corner geography...
Until now, Xiao Chen has three maned lizards, five leopard print geography, three horned frogs, three tree frogs and two eye corner geography, The room seems like a small zoo .
At the beginning, as a newly appointed zoo director, Xiao Chen carefully checked every crawler in the box every day when he came back from get off work, worrying about what they eat, whether they would get sick, and grab the owner of the crawler shop to ask precautions every day.
Over time, she has become an expert in crawlers and understands each habit of crawlers clearly.
Over time, she has become an expert in crawlers and understands each habit of crawlers clearly.
Bed lion lizard mainly eats Dubian cockroach and some vegetables and fruits. Leopard print geese likes Dubian cockroach and crickets. Eyecord geese eats crickets and fruit puree. Horn frogs love small fish frogs. Tree frogs eat very small Dubian cockroaches.
The feeling of distance is the tacit understanding between the principal and her employees.
Xiao Chen occasionally takes them out and puts them on his body, takes photos and carefully mark them one by one. Name, and then post a Moments; and more often, she just watches them quietly through the glass and will be very happy.
Since she raised a crawling pet, there are almost no other photos in Xiao Chen's mobile album. Food, selfies, and scenery all give way to the urgent need for "showing your baby".
This is the happy moment for the breeder Xiao Chen.
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l5▎“Metamorphosis”
Compared with newcomers who have just entered the circle, the way the crawlers who entered the pit and their crawler pets get along earlier is more like a calm period of "everyone is safe".
It has been four years since this majestic green iguana first came to Lao Xu's office.
At that time, it was just a juvenile body, and every winter it had to stay in the insulated box to spend the cold season.
At that time, it was only a juvenile body. Every winter it had to stay in the insulated box to spend the cold season.
At that time, it was only a juvenile body. l0 Now, it is an adult, with a body length of one meter, exceeding the size of the insulated box. Lao Xu no longer lets it stay in the box, but after heating the insulated box, laying a blanket on the top, and the green iguana will lie on it, sometimes lying all day long.
It is not common for the situation where the green iguana can raise such a large green iguana. Because the breeding conditions cannot keep up with and lack of breeding knowledge, domestic lizards often can't survive for a year.
▲ Xu Wantao raising green lizards freely in the studio
Although juvenile bodies are not easy to raise, the green iguana will become extremely survivable after adulthood.
Green iguana is vegetarian and lives with a large amount of fruits and vegetables. It only needs to be fed once a week; it also has good climbing ability and balance ability, and can jump freely on the balcony railings.
▲ performs a whole grape swallowing
raises green iguana, with almost no interaction, which also means worry-free and does not need to spend time and energy with it. It is in the office, and is with everyone in peace.
"Now everyone is familiar with it, it is the same as the desk and bench in the office, just like it exists in this environment."
The only time is that this green iguana lays more than twenty eggs at once, and the combined volume exceeds the volume of its body. Lao Xu and his colleagues studied it for a long time and learned that the egg is soft and smaller in size when it is discharged from the body.
These twenty eggs were left in the refrigerator in the office for several days, and were finally thrown away by Xu Wantao.
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▎need and needed
, who originally liked to crawl pets, felt very domineering when he saw an adult lizard at a friend's house, and soon bought a maned lizard from a seller recommended by his friend.
While raising a maned lizard, she also raises dogs, hamsters and chinchillas. In comparison, the maned lizard is the least pet that needs special concern. The feeding box is automatically temperature-controlled, and the power supply can be connected to the wifi on your mobile phone. You only need to feed it once a day and you can live a good life. Even if you forget occasionally or go out for a trip, under normal circumstances, the maned lizard will not starve to death without eating it for a week.
Only when feeding the maned lizard, will it feel "needed" ? Most of the time, there is not too strong interaction between her and the maned lizard.
Yaoji and her pet spiders also maintain a shallow "mother-son relationship". She had raised spiders in high school and returned to the ranks of crawling pets in the past two years.
She has three spiders, the varieties are Brazilian giant Jin Zhima, Venezuelan Red, Green and Orange and Mexican Fire Knee. The most common way of interaction between her and spiders is that when they finish eating, they will leave a small piece of white excrement on her hands as a reward gift.
"Can there be any warm story? Do you want to wash your feet with a basin of water?"
When asked about the story between the spider, Yaoji bluntly said that spiders are not as close relatives as cats and dogs. Most of the time, this offering of love is a one-sided effort. chickens are responsible for feeding and cleaning them, but spiders do not have feelings for the feeder.
Once upon a time, the young chicken would take out the spiders and put them into the clothes. They would emerge from the wrinkles of the clothes, revealing a small butt. Now the spiders have grown up, and this "parent-child activity" has also been cancelled because the spiders have grown in size.
Although you don’t need to pay too much attention to spiders in daily life, the young chicken will still observe them habitually and worry about them. The latest discovery was that the fierce, bright-toothed Venezuelan Red and Green Orange liked to kick the hair on the belly to protect itself, so she kicked herself bald.
▲ Venezuelan red, green and orange
Even so, spiders are still the cutest existence in Yaoji's heart. Hearing doubts about whether the spider is cute, Yaoji argued.
"It just feels very cute. Many people think spiders are cute!"
Although many people still cannot accept and understand the matter of raising crawling pets, crawlers do not care about other people's ideas and are still happy.
There is a crawler in the group where A Meng is located, a Heilongjiang man who is studying in Yunnan. Because the crawler pet cannot take the EMUs and planes, he took the green train for five days and five nights and took them all the way from the north to the south. It was holiday and he was about to set out on his itinerary again to escort them all the way home.
Human love for crawling pets is constantly expanding.
text | Muyao
photo | Provided by the respondent
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