Can you have cockroaches as a pet?

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  1. Walter vi Britannia

    Walter vi Britannia Well-Known Member

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    Just a random thought. Like, if you took care of it since the moment it was born, would it in any way act differently towards you than a normal cockroach? Would it somehow show attachment towards you?
    (Give me a good answer cause based on that answer, I might start feeling hesitation the next time I'm about to squash a cockroach with my slipper.)
     
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  2. elengee

    elengee Daoist Ninefaps

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    The Exterminator in Hitman 2 seems to think so.
     
  3. Nyamsus

    Nyamsus Life is full of shit and we live in it

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    No.. Once i make it fat enough...
    I will throw it as feed for my fish in my aquarium and see how they struggle till the end
     
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    lnv ✪ Well-Known Hypocrite

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    Even reptiles don't feel anything towards you no matter how you train them, let alone a cockroach.

    At best, you can train things to follow certain patterns and react to certain stuff. Like my fish sees me, it gets excited cause it knows food is coming. But that is about it, it has no attachment or anything, it simply is trained to perform certain actions for food.

    Insects would be even worse.

    So answer is no, crush away!
     
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  5. DocB

    DocB "I see you, little mouse! Run along"

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    everything is a pet if you care enough
    everything is a dildo if you are brave enough
    everything is a joke if you don't care at all
     
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  6. BigBadBoi

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    Read TerraFormars to lose all that guilt for killing a cockroach
     
  7. Tsuru55

    Tsuru55 Well-Known Member

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    I saw on TV that cats are also no exception. Don't expect a lot from them to do orders, it's really hard to do that.
     
  8. Tsuru55

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    We got words of wisdom right there.

    Warning there is NTR (or to be more exact : just CHEATING) in the manga and also in the anime i think. Heck the baby is not even his (the good guy). Also i even remember some small scat from one coachroach near the part at the beginning when one girl got her throat pierced.
     
  9. lnv

    lnv ✪ Well-Known Hypocrite

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    Cause cats are smart enough not to follow orders from inferior species? They do what they feel like as the supreme beings that they are.

    And no, cats do feel affection towards their human slaves. And will even recognize people a decade later.

    This is when someone is injured, cats come over and use their purring powers to heal them.
     
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    This one begs to differ

     
  11. lnv

    lnv ✪ Well-Known Hypocrite

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    That's called being trained for food. As I pointed out, my fish comes to greet me as well and starts dancing to grab my attention so that I would feed it. But it has no affection towards me, it simply trained to get food.
     
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    I'm not saying I'm racist, but... call me racist if you want for wanting to commit genocide on these cockroaches. IF HEAVEN PERMITS MASSACRES, THEN SO SHALL I!
     
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  13. Tsuru55

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    There are always exceptions to a rule.
     
  14. otaku31

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    No, you'd just be raising pests, not pets. :blobsweat:

    That extra "s" makes all the difference.
     
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  15. Rumby

    Rumby Rumbly Tumbly

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    Well I seen some youtubers have them as pets so I guess so?
     
  16. Tsuru55

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    I also want for them to disappear from the surface of the Earth.
    Also my mother doesn't believe me when i say that cockroaches enter the house by the opening windows and stuffs (i don't live in a city but i also don't live in a forest somewhere between them).
     
  17. Tsuru55

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    Wow again the miracle of the english language at work. Thx for telling us/me.
    LINKS ! OR I WON'T BELIEVE YOU !
     
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  18. Rumby

    Rumby Rumbly Tumbly

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    I haven't watched it but I remember seeing videos like these recommended while watching antscanada (he also has a cockroach farm but they're more to feed his other pets )
     
  19. Fluffy Jellyfish

    Fluffy Jellyfish 『Number 1 Lolicon under Heaven』

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    But, cockroach is waifu you know? :blobhyperthink::blobhyperthink:
     
  20. fuzor100

    fuzor100 Standby mode...

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    WTF bro? Burn it with fire!!!