answer:When I was young there was that kind of bug that was regularly sold as pet. They mostly targeted us children. I still don’t know the name, but the bug was very big – about a quarter of a 6-year-old’s hand – and was all black. It looked similar to a dung beetle, and it mainly ate leaves, as they said when they sold it to us. The bugs were extremely popular with schoolchildren, especially boys. Each came with a piece of thread around the body, and the thread acted like a dog collar. The boys would hold the thread in their hands and spun the bugs around, and that scared the heck out of some girls (and the spinning game was a favorite game among the bugs’ owners)! I once bought one and raised it like a regular dog. That mean I didn’t spin the bug like many others. I tried to be as gentle as I could, feeding it regularly and sometimes played with it. I couldn’t tell if it liked me or not (probably not), but I was fond of it. The only thing I didn’t like about it was that it wasn’t enthusiastic to play my games. One day I brought it to school with the intention to show it around the class, and one boy stole it and crushed it right in front of me! I cried for two days after that :(