As a birthday gift recently from my family I had a visit from Creepy Critters. 5 family members joined in too. I had previously been given a choice of 5 creatures to learn about and handle if appropriate.
I chose a millipede, a chinchilla, a gecko, a polecat and a spider.
The man who brought them was excellent - explained their origins, their habits and all sorts of interesting information. They were certainly in good form. We were allowed to handle an animal in turn and discuss how it felt etc - except for the pole cat which he held as it liked to bite but with our permission allowed it to run around the sitting room and that was no problem at all.
I was scared of the rather large hairy spider but determined to see what it was like. He passed it to me gently and stayed with me and it was such a gentle and dainty spider - it was a mixture of cream, black and white hairs, rather pretty really. I hardly felt it wandering on my hands. It was wonderful and I was so pleased to have held it. It made my day! Would I do it again? Yes if the same guy was there!
This fellow does parties, visits schools, has small groups like ours in the home and was really knowledgeable. If you have anyone like him in your area I recommend going along to a session or have a visit.
