Whitmoregirl's Wombles

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Ob has recently discovered that he likes dried mealworms and will wolf them down faster than you can blink!

I far prefer the dried worms for my gerbils, for one it means I don’t have to interact with them on a weekly basis to feed & water them in between being fed to my gerbils and also means I have no chance of discovering a colony of large ugly beetles living in my tanks should any escape!

The nutritional values for dried insects is also much higher than feeding them live, as live insects mostly consist of water (often around 50% of the body weight) with negligible amounts of protein, vitamins, etc. Feeding freeze-dried insects means that the water content is drastically reduced.

I remember many a year ago my dad gave our hamster, Scooby, an earthworm from the back garden to eat. She ate half of it then went to bed, leaving half a worm writhing about in the bottom of her tank! I suppose that early experience helped to put me off feeding ‘live’ again.

On my way to work today, I spotted a large, off-the-leash mongrel that looked something like a black bull terrier cross and its owner, a young woman, walking calmly into the park behind my place of work.

A few seconds after they vanished out of sight, there was a volley of barking and the mongrel quickly reappeared looking rather panicked with a small yappy dog clinging to his throat! The dog looked something like a Lhasa Apso, which are roughly 10-11 inches tall to the shoulders and weigh roughly 14 to 18 pounds.

The owner of the yappy little bastard, a man, managed to separate the two by booting his turd of a dog up the arse a few times and held his two dogs off at a distance as the woman checked her dog over.

His dogs were leashed from the start, but the little yappy dog was still barking away and attempting to get at the larger dog, which was sitting quite quietly as its owner cleaned the bites.

So, who do you reckon caused the problem in this scenario?

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