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Old May 8th 12, 10:36 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Default Boyfie notices a spider

[in the UK]
There are no poisonous spiders here, although they can bite.


Not as permanent residents, but I met somebody a few months ago with
an enormous black scab on her hand that was the result of a spider
jumping out of a plant she'd brought home from the Netherlands. She
didn't know what kind of spider it was, neither could the hospital
guess. She just had to spend a couple of weeks wondering if her whole
arm was going to turn black and fall off.


I like almost everything but I struggle with very large spiders,
they give me the horrors.


The really big ones are harmless - I find them rather cute. We had
an army of them like eight-legged mice swarming over the back wall of
the house I lived in in Sydney. Now the funnelweb spider we found in
the loo one day *was* something to worry about, but they don't look
very special.

A lot of Australia's really lethal wildlife is pretty tiny - irukandji
jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus.

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