If someone told you that they owned an exotic pet, what would you think they meant? A bird? A snake? An illegal big cat? For @kcalbug, aka Amelia, think again. Although Amelia’s Twitter bio states that she’s an “exotic pet lover,” her definition of “pet” might be a little different than yours.
I’m losing my mind everyone replying like this is a normal cute pet to have tf https://t.co/w9ErQPfL0i
— Barbarism Critic (punished again) (@barbarismcritic) August 16, 2023
Amelia is the proud owner of pet leeches, which she allows to feed off of her arm for hours at a time. “It’s completely safe because these are not wild leeches,” she said. “Leeches release a kind of numbing agent, so there’s only a bit of discomfort.”
Yeah this will be a hard no from me pic.twitter.com/Y6H1OfpqFE
— Kyle and 8,732 people (@KyleNumber) August 17, 2023
sry for all the leech spam but this is the grooviest thing i ever did see … pic.twitter.com/808aU7Wt0Z
— ️amelia ! (@kcalbug) August 17, 2023
But understandably, much of the rest of the internet has a hard time wrapping their head around caring for a blood-sucking parasitic worm. Especially upon learning that leech feeding points can bleed for up to 10 hours after they’re done sucking.
“We've normalized too much,” @phollowmeputa said.
this kind of just seems like an elaborate self-harming method to me
— Rozen (@Musical_Rozen) August 16, 2023
But despite the negativity, Amelia loves her leeches and has purchased much larger buffalo leeches that are on their way. To each their own I suppose, but this is a trend I’d rather not see other creators leeching off of…
hi so thank u all for the overwhelming amount of sweet responses to my leech i’m going to post a lot more of my exotic pets bc i love talking abt them !! i’m going 2 try and get to all my CCs soon i have a lot nd i’m a little overwhelmed by all the notifications/negativity
— ️amelia ! (@kcalbug) August 15, 2023
should i do an unboxing vid when this species i ordered gets here ??? pic.twitter.com/6In8GMqEn8
— ️amelia ! (@kcalbug) August 15, 2023
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