I Got a Graboid For Fathers Day!! (From the Tremors Movie)

[CADplans]

My wife wanted me to have a pet, and, I always liked the movie "Tremors".

She heard the pet store had a vegetarian second stage Graboid from the movie Tremors 2.

She said while the trailer is still hooked up from picking up the 2284, why not go down to the pet store and get it for me for Fathers day.

We did, I tried to get a pic of it, but, as soon as I pulled up next to the house, it jumped out of the trailer.



It was gone into the woods like a shot!

Since it is a vegetarian, hopefully, I hoped that cutting some food for it would prompt it out of the woods.



Hopefully, that sucker will come back!!

I will get pics, if it does!!

[ACecil]

Looking forward to your pics, CAD.

[CADplans]

Although the vegetarian Graboid is a little different, here is the Wikipedia info on them;

Shrieker

The second stage of the graboid life cycle first seen in Tremors 2.
Unlike their previous incarnations, the huge, subterranean and limbless graboids, shriekers live on the surface. Much smaller than graboids, shriekers are about 5 feet (1,50 m) long and 4 feet (1,20 m) tall. While graboids are worm-like in shape, shriekers slightly resemble dinosaurs or heavy ground-dwelling birds, having stout, three-toed legs and a compact body. They also have a short, stump-like tail. This tail, as well as some small bulges in the neck, has some orange coloring on it. Its function is not mentioned.
The one thing that shows shriekers are related to graboids is their skull- just like a graboid's, it consists of a powerful, beak-like armored upper jaw and a much narrower lower jaw surrounded by two mandibles. Both the jaws and the mandibles have sharp hooks and serrations to hold on to prey. The beak is very powerful; shriekers are capable of ripping through sheet metal with ease. While graboids have three prehensile tentacles for tongues, complete with jaws, shriekers have more normal tongues: singular ones lacking jaws. Like a graboid's, the tongue is relatively stiff (for a tongue). It can be stretched out approximately 3 feet (90 cm) and has some short bristles on it, not unlike the tongue of a cat.
The shriekers' most notable feature is their heat sensor, a brain-like pulsating organ atop their head which is usually covered by a frill-like flap of skin, which is supported by a small ridge at the base of the skull. Using this sensor, shriekers sense infrared heat, which is their only sense other than taste and touch as they lack eyes, ears or a nose. As shown by shots in Tremors 2 depicting the creatures' point of view, the heat sensed by the shriekers is apparently processed into an image highly similar to that of an infrared camera.
Shriekers are much easier to kill than graboids, being smaller, surface-dwelling and more easily damaged by firearms, although they hunt in groups. Like graboids, shriekers have orange blood.

[cubby102]

Better notnlet it eat to much it'll go to stage 3 and if mynmemorie serves me right they ain't no fun!!!

[drglinski]

Um......what?

[Maxwelhse]

BAwahahaha! I love it, Cad!!!

Tremors 4 was my fav...

[CADplans]

Still no sign of my new pet!!

So I went out and cut some more food for it, hoping that would entice it out of the woods.







Ah, the smell of new mown hay!! Maybe that will entice it out of the woods!!



I did fix a spot in the shed for it, just maybe it will go in there to sleep.

I read they like to have a lair or cave to rest in. I have one spot without a door, so it is like a cave.

We will see

[Maxwelhse]

That is a man's weed whip if I ever saw one!

[Sam Mac]

CAD you have issues.........

My answer to cutting that would be this and I know you have a bigger one.

[ajcombs]

LOL I was like what kind of pet have theyy started selling now!! LOL. I loved that movie didn't realize they have made 4 of them.