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CANBERRA (Reuters) - 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. 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. 'These really are charming creatures. They're clean, they're not stinky at all and there really is nothing horrible about them except for the name cockroach,' said Sue Hasenpusch, from the Australian Insect Farm. These gigantic cockroaches, officially called Macropanesthia Rhinoceros, grow as big as the palm of a hand, measuring about three inches and weighing just over an ounce. They are also known to live up to 10 years. Huge and shiny with spiky legs, they can be kept in a medium sized tank with four to five inches of sandy soil at room temperature, surviving on dry eucalyptus or gum tree leaves. They don't seem to mind handling and some cockroach owners even say their animal hisses softly when stroked...
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