Peculiar pets Scotland

21/08/2025

My gorgeous girls & boys got fed today.

Holconia murrayensis

21/08/2025

Afternoon all, busy busy!

Possibly be having a limited drop of some Copiphora nymphs before the show. These are an absolutely amazing predatory katydid.

Mum and dad have done a great job, infact to good a job!

Keep your eyes peeled👀

20/08/2025

My little loves ❤️

Kylie and Kardas offspring.

How can you resist those wee faces!

19/08/2025

Im looking for new blood, does anyone have otiosus males and females. Id be willing for a trade with some of my orange line. Higher instar is preffered.

Pm me

Many thanks
Kyle

19/08/2025

Big things happening behind the scenes! All for you lovely people coming to the show.

Im excited but keeping some things secret.

But ive been working for a while on our own range of hides 😁 designed for hyllus and other high humidity jumpers.

We have not released the design yet as we dont want it stolen without copyright.

But they have arrived and im massively chuffed with how they have turned out. And they have a pretty nifty design feature on them.

I will have these at the show so keep your eyes peeled

18/08/2025

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The Bigger Picture

Writing these posts is somewhat depressing but it’s time to show the public what is actually going on in the world of animals rights organisations and the false statements shown towards pet keeping.

When people think of wildlife trafficking, they often imagine parrots in cages or iguanas in crates. But the true crisis is unfolding in slaughterhouses, kitchens, and pharmacies. The pet trade, though not innocent, is dwarfed by the sheer scale of consumption for food and medicine.

If humanity does not confront this imbalance, if awareness and outrage continue to fixate only on pets, then the next roll call of extinction will be even longer.

I apologise if these posts spoil your Monday but animals extinct due to habitat loss, food consumption and so called medicine are listed below.

Extinct (due to humans)
• Western Black Rhinoceros
• Baiji (Yangtze River Dolphin)
• Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger)
• Steller’s Sea Cow
• Caribbean Monk Seal
• Quagga
• Japanese Sea Lion
• Passenger Pigeon
• Great Auk
• Dodo
• Carolina Parakeet
• Moa
• Ivory-billed Woodpecker (functionally extinct)
• Chinese Paddlefish
• Tecopa Pupfish
• Pinta Island Tortoise
• Round Island Burrowing Boa
• Golden Toad
• Sea Mink
• Labrador Duck

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⚠️ Critically Endangered (on the brink)
• Sumatran Rhino
• Javan Rhino
• Vaquita
• Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle
• Saola
• Red Panda
• Kakapo
• California Condor
• Forest Owlet
• Ploughshare Tortoise
• Radiated Tortoise
• Chinese Crocodile Lizard
• Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
• Sawfish
• Manta Ray
• European Eel
• Totoaba
• Sumatran Orangutan
• Tapanuli Orangutan
• Western Lowland Gorilla

Almost all of these species are not threatened because of the pet trade, but because of consumption (meat, fins, scales, horns, bile), habitat destruction, and medicine markets.

Species extinct because of pet trade: 0

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