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Somewhat OT - spiders
I have always been sort of creeped out by spiders. About 11 years ago,
I worked at a water park. One day there was a huge spider at one of the slide splashdowns. It was about 4 or 5 inches across. I killed it. A few days later my tuxedo cat IKE disappeared. Karma? I never kill spiders any more. When I see one in the house, I carefully capture it in a jar and set it free outside. I don't know if they can survive outside in the winter but I give them the chance. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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"---MIKE---" wrote in message ... I have always been sort of creeped out by spiders. About 11 years ago, I worked at a water park. One day there was a huge spider at one of the slide splashdowns. It was about 4 or 5 inches across. I killed it. A few days later my tuxedo cat IKE disappeared. Karma? I never kill spiders any more. When I see one in the house, I carefully capture it in a jar and set it free outside. I don't know if they can survive outside in the winter but I give them the chance. ---------- Big spiders are the one thing that creep me out too, I am OK with anything else. I figure that it's not their fault I don't like them, and I would hate to kill them so I've devised a method to catch them so I can put them outside. I can't do the glass over them with cardboard slipped underneath as it makes them run up into the glass and I drop it in horror. So, it's the big fluffy towel, gather the spider up inside it, and shake the towel outside. I have a spider that has set up home on my kitchen windowsill, she's been there for a couple of weeks and has built a typical house spider web between my spice jars. I know she's a girl by her thingies that poke out in front of her, boys have lumps on them. That does not help as she is a big girl, too big for me to deal with. I need to evict her and must gird my loins soon as I am fed up with her eyeballing me when I have my breakfast ;-) Tweed |
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Christina Websell wrote:
I have a spider that has set up home on my kitchen windowsill, she's been there for a couple of weeks and has built a typical house spider web between my spice jars. I know she's a girl by her thingies that poke out in front of her, boys have lumps on them. That does not help as she is a big girl, too big for me to deal with. I would guess so!! Any spider that's big enough for you to determine her gender is too big for me. Joyce -- A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -- Leo Rosten |
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hopitus wrote:
If, however, I do see a spider (only kind I see here are pretty much black widows and small nondescript types) I go into action to save it from the Snaginator Mighty Hunter, who is an indoor-only kinda cat. If it's a black widow, I'd say you're saving the Snaginator from the spider rather than the other way around. You don't want him to get bitten by one of those. -- A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -- Leo Rosten |
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Yowie wrote:
Just did a web search... dogs are virtually immune to redback venom, and AFAIK, redbacks are just an antipodean cousin to your black widows. Cats are still far less effected by spider bites, weight for weight, than human beings (including your brown recluse), but can still show some nasty, although rarely fatal, effects. There was a guy who used to post here who lost a few cats because of an infestation of brown recluse spiders in his house. I don't remember exactly where he lived, but it was in the USA. It was a really sad story as I remember. Joyce -- There is no alternative to being yourself. |
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wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: I have a spider that has set up home on my kitchen windowsill, she's been there for a couple of weeks and has built a typical house spider web between my spice jars. I know she's a girl by her thingies that poke out in front of her, boys have lumps on them. That does not help as she is a big girl, too big for me to deal with. I would guess so!! Any spider that's big enough for you to determine her gender is too big for me. she's big but soon I have to catch her and put her outside. I have to be brave about it. She's very happy where she is but I am not. Tweed -- A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -- Leo Rosten |
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On Oct 14, 3:30*pm, wrote:
hopitus wrote: * If, however, I do see a spider (only kind I see * here are pretty much black widows and small nondescript types) I go * into action to * save it from the Snaginator Mighty Hunter, who is an indoor-only kinda * cat. If it's a black widow, I'd say you're saving the Snaginator from the spider rather than the other way around. You don't want him to get bitten by one of those. -- A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- Leo Rosten Black widows are nasty--you don't want them around, period. Maybe cats are more immune to their bite than humans, but why risk it? They're poisonous enough to send an adult human to the hospital. I'm cool with spiders outside. Most of them are harmless, beneficial, even and they have a place in the whole ecosystem. BUT, if I find one INSIDE it has crossed battle lines! Melissa |
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