May 23, 2003 8:13 PM

And you don't have to get them spayed

Feeling lonely? Snuggle up to a pet cockroach

There must be something about living below the equator that adversely impacts one's judgement. If you're reduced to having a cockroach as a pet, don't you think it would be time to do something productive- like, oh, I don't know...find yourself a girlfriend??

CANBERRA, Australia - Dog too demanding? Allergic to cats? Then how about coming home to a lovable, giant cockroach?

Workers in Australia's pet industry say the demand for insects as pets has risen in the past five years because of more cramped living -- and so has the number of people befriending cockroaches, with the biggest of the species native to Australia.

"Admittedly they are a bit of an unusual pet, but the kids can play with them without getting hurt and they are very low maintenance," said John Olive, one of the major suppliers of giant cockroaches to the pet market within Australia.

"I'm surprised more people don't want them as pets."

But roach-lovers are not settling for second best and befriending any of the little critters that scuttle around your kitchen at night or the offensive brown things with huge wings that fly in when you open the balcony door in summer.

They want the world's biggest cockroach, the giant burrowing cockroach or rhinoceros cockroach that is native to Australia, and found in the warm, northeastern state of Queensland.

How long will it be before someone tries to saddle one of these things? I can see it now- cockroach rodeos, cockroach races, and cockroach dressage. Ewww....

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