This is Guido - our scorpion. I found him in the shop in September - almost stepped on him. He is our third pet scorpion, replacing Bob and Steve, both passed on after a good life. We find these fellas often in the summer and not outdoors but inside the garage or shop mostly. While they aren't very toxic, old Angus had a reaction to being stung by one. We always had to carry Benadryl for him as he was a reactor. Anyway, Guido is a strange little guy. He gets scared of his food - he runs away from an earwig or spider or fly. Not a good way to be for a scorpion. And now food is getting more difficult to find for him. Will have to hit the pet store and buy him some nice meal worms - yummm! Learn more about scorpions here.
We used to have a couple of these guys as pets, too. They are lots of fun to watch and seem to like watching us, too. I used to feed them damp wood termites with a spoon - they would come right up and gobble them up off the tip of the spoon. I found this poor fellow half drowned in the watering can last week. He was so cold he could not move. I got him warmed up and put him on a rock in the weak sun where he could recover and find his way to somewhere safe to hibernate.
4 comments:
Those are some unusual pets. But I guess I call our garter snakes "Butch" even though there must be more than one. We have our nesting swallows each year (no names) and of course a gazillion wood rats that have names that I can write in public (I don't count them as pets anyway). What would life surrounded by nature be without unusual pets. - Margy
Blech.....I would pass on having a pet scorpion. Thats a face not even a mother could love!
I think I will stick to dogs. I want to cuddle with my pets and those just don't look like they are in that category.
That scorpion is so prickly and if (or I should say when) I find a big one, like that, I will be completely creeped out. When I first moved to my house I was vacuuming and found a tiny one under a rug. I put it in a jar and fed it a small clicker beetle. The next day the scorpion was eaten and the beetle was alive. I am fascinated by all living creatures but that huge scorpion is so, so, creepy! Now lizards are a different story, I like them alot.
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