The Circle of Life

It's always interesting what ends up surprising customers when it comes to animal care. 

Today I had a father come into the store with his son to get crickets.

Only his son had wandered away.

So when I asked the Father what size of crickets he needed....he had no idea.

*shakes head*

I do wonder what people are thinking when they come into the store for crickets but then don't know anything beyond that they need crickets. They don't know size. Don't know number. If I ask them if they want small or large they inevitably answer 'medium' which I don't carry. 

It's like they come in expecting us to already know what they need and have it ready for them.

In any case.

He had to go find his son.

Who wasn't certain either what size of crickets he needed for his lizard either.

*exhales*

A few more questions and we decided that they probably wanted small crickets.

And a couple more questions established that the boy wanted like 20 of them. 

After I bagged them up.

The boy asked. "How long will these live?" 

And I was like "Probably a week, depends on how well you feed them."

And the dad was like: "You have to feed the crickets to feed to the lizard?! That's crazy!"

O.o

Uh...no it's like....the circle of life?

Crickets are living creatures that need to eat to well...live.

It's just like a rabbit eating plants and then a hawk eating the rabbit.

Food is fed to the crickets which then the crickets are fed to the lizard.

Honestly though, that's not the first time I've had customers be surprised that the crickets have to be fed too to help them survive longer.

For whatever reason...it doesn't compute when it comes to the bugs. *shakes head*

-Sarnic Dirchi