My junior year of college, I was leaving the local mall and saw a strange little cage in the parking lot. It was a wire mesh cylinder, with plastic at the top and bottom. Inside? Two little hermit crabs! Someone must have put the cage down while loading the car and forgot their new hermies! I brought them home to the dorm and named them Sebastian (for the crab in The Little Mermaid, of course!) and Jack (for Jack Nicholson, the crabbiest actor I could think of.) Jack and Sebastian lived with me for the better part of two years. … Continue reading →