I’m sorry but this is a little disconcerting for me.
Pets are one thing. I don’t really like the idea of dogs with coats, cats that aren’t allowed out of the house, etc. But……..
Encrusting your pet beetle (?) with jewels and then wearing it as a brooch? Now that they’re stopping the docking of dogs tails and the slicing of their ears, I would have thought that this, too, would be considered wrong.
I can understand a pet beetle, kept in a tank and in an environment that, at least, can be made similar to the real one – but on your jumper, pinned as some sort of jewellery and, even worse, encrusted with jewels?
The world has gone mad.
what?!
I’m shocked.
Quite! Essato!
it’s HORRIBLE.
Bleah
It is – but, may I ask, is it horrible because it’s a beetle or because of what they have done to it – or both, of course?
I must admit, when I read the headline (from the front page) I assumed it was somebody trying to smuggle in a rare beetle and they had, somehow, tried to disguise it as a brooch.
But, when I read the actual story an the fact that this is not so rare in Mexico, I, too, was shocked. I had never heard of this before.
It’s horrible because of what they have done to this poor insect.
I can’t stand it.
That’s what I thought, Lola but I had to ask.
I agree. It’s quite terrible. That someone should do that in the first place is bad enough but that someone from, supposedly, a civilised nation should then part with money for it quite disgusts me.
What next?