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I'm a red creature from the sea with large claws, or pincers, and I'm often boiled and served as an expensive dish at seafood restaurants.
Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport considered cruel, but that's because you never know me at all.
Long slim and slender. Dark as homemade thunder. Keen eyes and peaked nose. Scares the Devil wherever it goes.
Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
I'm known for being stubborn and saying 'hee-haw.' What am I?
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.