The Bug Container

Had a grandmother and her two grandsons come into the store with the youngest boy toting a bug box with him.
You know, one of those mesh containers with a handle.

And the grandmother had come in wanting to find like a bug for the grandson to have.
Specifically she was looking for a Madagascar beetle.
Which I think she was looking for a hissing cockroach? As that's usually the only bug that I think of when I hear "Madagascar."

In either case we don't carry those.
Nor any other 'useful' bugs that could be fun pets.
Besides like Crickets. 
But I think she was wanting something a little...different.

In any case.
At one point she was wanting to get one of the tree frogs to put in that mesh container.
And like....
No.

It was totally the wrong setup for the tree frog as they would need a bigger space that that six inch by four inch mesh thing that they had on hand. 

No tree frogs need like humidity and heat and a lot more work than the grandmother (or anyone) ever realized.

-It's interesting how many people think that they can just stick an animal in a box without adequate bedding/heat/space and think it's okay. 

In any case. 

I told her that we basically had nothing in the store that would go in that container.

But recommended a couple other local pet stores that might carry the bugs she was looking for for her bug thing that the grandson had.

She wasn't having it though.

And after looking through all the pets came upon the hermit crabs.
Which admittedly aren't that difficult of a pet to have.
Though the container still was wrong for them, I pointed her to our smallest hermit crab cage that came as a kit and told her that that would be a better container for the hermit crab.

So in the end she ended up buying that and a hermit crab for her grandson.

Hopefully he enjoys it. 
As honestly...they don't do much.... 

-Sarnic Dirchi