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Memorial for Euphrates (arachnid spoiler)

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Euphrates was an asian forest scorpion I got at a pet store in 2020. Fully mature, and crammed in a tiny enclosure to fight with another poor scorpion. I was able to handle her without getting stung or pinched. Over the years of having her, she shed twice, and I suspect she was already old when I got her- having never grown larger than the size shown. Even though arachnids don't surgically implant their love into us with lazerlike precision like rodents do, I still felt a kind of quiet sombreness as I constructed her a sarcophagus (you'll see the egyptian ceremonial burial and symbols with my animals, cuz middle eastern and bronze age stuff is a fascination of mine and its the way I know how to posthumously show I love them. I had not dileneated a cause of death other than ripe old age of possibly 6 or 7 years.

Posthumously, I let the fleshy contents of the shell decay outside for 2 weeks and encased her in a sarcophagus I made from air dry sculpting clay.

Euphrates was a living work of art, a black beauty worthy of admiration and meditation. RIP Euphrates, may you forever find peace and bliss in the Emerald Dream Isis has given you.
 

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That is a wonderful memorial and such an interesting pet. I am so sorry for your loss. How long did you have Euphrates for?
 
That is a wonderful memorial and such an interesting pet. I am so sorry for your loss. How long did you have Euphrates for?
Till a few months ago.

I didn't shed tears in the violently cathartic way I did when I lost my roof rat, but she did spark a deep meditation on life and death. I can't say I can put any of this into words. Its strange how soon I encountered my roof rat after the death of my scorpion.

A year ago I was so bad of a person to the rats living in my roof. I did a horrible thing. Its hard to process the pain I caused in my ignorance when I threw rodent bait into the attic. Most of the time, they evacuate seeking water outside, and go die where humans won't have to bear witness. But one of them wasn't able to make it outside of the walls. I heard noises of pain I don't want to describe. I can't process. It hurts me. They could've been a cousin of the baby I tried to raise.

All because I was unsettled over some scratching noises in the ceiling (my part of Florida, and well seemingly nationwide seems to have a boom in wild rodent populations lately)

Because of our alleged lagomorph ancestor Purgatorius, I've come to consider them like little people. Like our cousins.

Nevermind monkeys though, when they smile it means they're psycho...
 
It's a tricky thing - wild rats and mice are not the same as domesticated ones bred in captivity. There are humane ways to deal with outbreaks. We have to with mice here - the mice do spread diseases and hamsters can catch them. Don't feel bad.
 
I am so sorry for your loss. What a beautiful way you have made a memory of her.
 
Euphrates was stunning. I always find scorpions fascinating though the pincers do make me a bit nervous! What do they eat?
 
Euphrates was stunning. I always find scorpions fascinating though the pincers do make me a bit nervous! What do they eat?
Crickets. Unlike my rosy tarantula though, rarely did I ever catch her in the act of eating. Crickets just casually vanish from the cage as if fallen into a black hole. lol

She was more skittish than defensive, and the concern was dropping her more than being pinched or stung. I rarely handle my arachnids anymore cuz of that anxiety. Still try to snap a selfie here and there
 
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