
I've just taken possession of about a hundred tadpoles!
I haven't collected them since I was a kid, which of course in those pre-google days meant they all died rather horrid deaths
I shall be feeding them lettuce and liver until they are the size of cats!
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Thu 7 May 2009, 11:36,
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I haven't collected them since I was a kid, which of course in those pre-google days meant they all died rather horrid deaths
I shall be feeding them lettuce and liver until they are the size of cats!

I got stick insects this weekend, and have just heard that their former home has since been overrun by ants and all their relatives brutally killed :(
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Thu 7 May 2009, 11:38,
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and the presence of a growing colony of stick insects in the kitchen must have upset them a bit
I only mention this because I wanted some of the tadpoles as well but they were hiding under the pondweed. Either that or the sticklebacks have eaten them all :/
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Thu 7 May 2009, 11:41,
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I only mention this because I wanted some of the tadpoles as well but they were hiding under the pondweed. Either that or the sticklebacks have eaten them all :/

I haven't even got onto the pigeons and the birds of prey (sparrowhawks, maybe?) that evicerate them on the lawn yet
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Thu 7 May 2009, 11:44,
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she's a teacher so there's always the school rabbit/fish/snails/insects/tadpoles around...my sister's just as bad, she's got the school chickens at the moment (in addition to two cats, one pregnant, plus hamsters and god know what else)
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Thu 7 May 2009, 11:49,
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