The Practically Perfect 15 Day Pet With Terrible Table Manners
If you’re searching for a cool looking pet that breathes through its exoskeleton, look no further.

I don’t know how it happens; you’re a carefree spirit with a world of adventure ahead, and next, you have the responsibility of another life. Pet-loving folk look away now; your hearts melted long ago. You’ve succumbed to those big soppy eyes, soft, strokable fur and the shining scales of a thousand psychedelic rainbow shades darting through purified crystal clear waters. In heated tanks that bubble and oxygenate throughout the day.
You’re already slightly Dolittle, enjoying conversations with your loyal, loving friends. You feed, groom, care and clean up those tiny or not deposits animals leave behind. And the love you receive in return from the experience makes you feel all the better for it.
Is it the company and a generous thick slice of this warm fuzzy feeling you desire but aren’t ready or able to commit to a long term relationship? Even hooking a slim bodied Goldfish, they’re related to the Carp family like the Common or Comet Goldfish. At the fair, as a prize, can have you splashing around together for a few years. Depending on the species, they live a lot longer than you might have imagined.
The Guinness World Record states a goldfish named Tish, owned by Hilda and Gordon Hand of Carlton Miniott, North Yorkshire, UK, lived for 43 years.
Forget the heart; your head reminds you of the need to consider the household finances. Bills need to be paid, space is always a premium, and the household might have rules and regulations regarding pets. The cat allergy and sneezing fit rule out our feline friends. Also, you prefer the house without extra hair, scratches, barking, howling and meowing. And you can certainly live without the warm, squidgy accidental deposit left in such a place that contact with your barefoot is inevitable.
What you don’t want to share the sofa, shame on you!
Introducing a pet alternative you may previously not have considered. Musca domestica, the common housefly is generally a most unwelcome uninvited guest. However, if you’re considering a pet but not sure and live where space is a premium. Have a busy lifestyle and not overly keen on picking up the pooh each time your new best friend decides to dump in the street or leave a stinky deposit in the litter tray! The housefly could be the perfect pet for you.
Much like the goldfish winning prize at the fair, you have to catch one first. Before this think accommodation, a handy space-saving pre-owned jam jar with a few tiny holes in the lid is the perfect starter home. The addition of a blob of jam would be the perfect moving in gift.
If you’re searching for a cool looking pet that breathes through its exoskeleton, look no further. The fly’s skeleton is external, similar to woodlice, beetles, cockroaches, crabs, etc. In contrast, mammals have their skeleton, an endoskeleton inside our bodies.
They live for around 15–28 days, so long enough to get attached, but your heart won’t be broken when they’re gone. They enjoy a liquid diet as they can only ingest liquids, but have questionable table manners, as they go around spitting and vomiting on solids, then lap up the saliva liquid mush mix.
Their taste buds are located on their legs and feet, and it’s questionable if they’re actually connected to anything, considering what they chose to eat. Common houseflies are attracted to decaying organic filth such as decomposing bodies, rooting fruit, excrement, rotting meat. Whereas fruit flies seek sugary substances and feed more commonly on overripe fruit, spilt fizzy drinks, and alcohol.
Maybe swap the blob of jam for a lump of something else!
The housefly diet means they have a requirement to defecate a lot. I’m not sure what a lot is in the world of flies, but whatever the regularity of the bowel movement, I’d suggest shooing them off your food.
A female housefly lays up to 500 eggs in its lifetime. They generally lay their eggs in moist areas where decay is present. When the maggots pop out, they have a delicious ready-made meal waiting for them. Useful outside the house to get rid of decomposing animals, but not so inside. Flies also help pollinate flower beds, a far more fragrant and acceptable pass time. But the chances are they buzz from a rose to something that could quite easily commute disease.
Flies act as scavengers consuming rotting organic matter, which is an essential role in the environment. Flies literally eat pooh, but they also clean up other waste, helping to clean-up after us by eating household waste which diverts it from going into landfill.
It can be incredibly satisfying when you splat a fly.
You know, even when you’ve crept up to a fly having adopted your very best special forces stealth mode stance, armed with nothing more than your homemade “Stars Wars Lifesaver” styled newspaper. It is pretty impossible to splat one, that’s because, with a nearly 360-degree field of vision, they see you coming from almost every angle. Factor in their reaction time; our brains process around 60 images a second. A fly processes around 250 in a single second; they saw us coming in slow motion.
Top Take-Aways
Want to keep that pesky fly with awful table manners and extremely regular bowel movements from vomiting or defecating on your sandwich?
Consider incorporating into your household cinnamon, lavender, eucalyptus, peppermint and lemongrass essential oils. Not only will spraying these oils around the house create a beautiful aroma, but they will also deter those dirty buzzing, irritating flies.
Basil, marigolds, bay leaves, catnip- strong-smelling herbs will help as a deterrent.
Venus flytrap- does what it says on the tin, although this one is actually a plant.
If your homemade “Lifesaver” is not working, try spraying them with bleach or other cleaning household sprays. That pretty does a permanent job on them.
Quick plea to the clever, talented inventor types. Please invent the ultimate “Spider Fly Capture Web Shooter.” A handheld or wrist triggered gizmo that fires at velocity environmentally friendly non-toxic web snare stuff. I’d be in the queue to buy one. Along with about another ten million other kids! Who I suspect will not be so interested in catching a fly but spraying their mates with the stuff.
