A girl and her giant bug

Think back to the days when you had a class pet… If I had to guess, my money would be on a hamster, gerbil, fish, or if you were in my fourth grade class, a rock. (Never worry about killing the class pet again!) Oh Japan, how you put us to shame. This second grader is proudly showing off her baby kabutomushi, which is some sort of fighting beetle that is HUGELY popular among school children. There are large sections in grocery stores devoted the drove of beetle lovers; cages, sawdust-like filling for the cage, tiny containers of jello that they eat/drink, and oh the T-shirts, pencils, pencil cases, and erasers you can buy with beetles on them. Beetles are the new puppies! Maybe I can satiate my desire to see PUPPY by buying myself a beetle!

4 comments July 7th, 2006