Wednesday, April 16

Tama caught a weta!

I was busy writing code* last night and heard a ruckus from the kitchen. Iain was upstairs. I went to check on it and there was Tama with a huge weta in his mouth.

For those of you unfamiliar with wetas, they're harmless but terrifying looking bugs that come in a variety of shapes and sizes. According to Iain, this was a small one. I'll take these any day over centipedes.

Rather than risk having half-eaten weta parts all over the house, I put a glass over it and got it back outside.



(*ok, I was actually reading 'Lost' articles on EW.com....)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love how you had your camera handy! The picture kind of looks like the little f@#ker is missing a leg!!

Alex said...

ha! One time I put Daisy in the tub with one of those billion-pedes and shut her in there. It sounds cruel, but she LOVED playing with those things. I came back in to find she had eaten HALF of it, and the rest of it was scurrying around the tub. Come on. YOU GET BACK IN THAT TUB AND FINISH YOUR DINNER OR YOU'RE NOT COMING OUT. hahaha, usually she'd just bat them around and play with them. I wasn't expecting anything quite so gruesome.

Anonymous said...

is Daisy your child?

Anonymous said...

Go Tama! Nice one. Looks like a huge cricket.

Anonymous said...

They're not totally harmless, I think they can bite you, at least that's what the boys tell me :)

Alex said...

hahaha, Daisy was my cat, from hi-skool until late '06. :(