hissing cockroach

cockroachWhen you think of a pet in your pocket, it’s usually some fuzzy little critter like a hamster or a guinea pig… most people don’t conjure up images of a hissing cockroach. Many of us, after all, hire exterminators to rid our homes of as many bugs possible.

But some people actually keep cockroaches as pets! I recently read about a family who has a menagerie of pets—including a millipede—and thought, what other kinds of bugs do people keep as parts of their families?

It turns out that there are quite a few. Below are some of the most popular bugs people choose to keep as pets.

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