Thursday, April 26, 2007

Tarantulas


Our class pet

Our class pet is a spider her name is Rosy she is really big and she eats crickets and other bugs like grasshoppers. She lives in a tank beside the laptop. She has a reddish head and long black hairy legs, they are gross but I don’t mind her. She is a slow walker and her whole body is hairy. When she eats she sucks the blood out of the bug and eats that. I don’t really know if she eats the whole cricket’s body or just the blood. She also likes to get her cage cleaned. She loves to eat and to walk around the cage. She is a really good class pet but I am kind of scared of her because she’s a spider. I’m not that much of a spider person. She has really big fangs to suck the blood from her prey, which is another spider or a cricket or also a grasshopper. We use stuff called vermiculite it is a brown white and kind of gold color. It’s kind of like pellets they are for a garden but Rosy loves to walk in them. Her food climbs in her cage when they jump down she grabs them and eats them. When she breathes you can’t see it and it looks like she was dead, but if her cage moves she starts to move. She is a cool class pet. She’s a bit scary. I think she looks nice. She grew on me. I was so scared of her at first but now I think she is a good pet she looks so friendlyr. I like our class pet.

By holly marie lambert

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