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Sat 2 Apr, 2005 11:19 am
I'm cleaning out my kitchen cabinets today. Just as I had almost everything out of one of them, I see a giant spider. It's still there. We looked at each other and now it's just a standoff. I don't want to kill it, and it doesn't want to move. I can't throw away that 2 year-old half-empty box of bulgar wheat until it does. Oh what to do?
Wow! freeDuck. Is it poisonous? If not, try trapping it. I once put a glass over a huge spider and then slipping a piece of cardboard under the glass, was able to get the thing trapped and tossed outside. Not a task for the timid.
In our house, this is what would happen: BigDice sees the spider, yells 'Urs!!! Get that spider!'. I take a glass or something, trap the thing and throw it outside.
OR...
... the cats are faster and eat it :-)
Ah, the cats won't be able to get it in there -- too bad. I don't think it's poisonous. It's a long-legged type and is probably killing all of the moths and other bugs that were in there. It might be dying because it didn't even move when I almost touched it by accident.
Maybe I will try trapping it.
Urs, that is funneeeeee. My word, I thought that cats only ate lizards.
I wouldn't know about lizards, Letty. There are no lizards in our apartment (thank God!)
Trap it, FreeDuck! :-)
Oh, and it looks very funny when the cats eat long-legged insects - legs hanging out of their mouths...
I used to have a dog who caught and crunched June bugs.
Yikes, Noddy. Those things have sticky legs. <shiver>
Urs, those cats will often eat anything. My niece and I used to be vigilant about our white persian, Murdoch. He discovered a rabbit warren and was catching the babies. They screamed...really. We became a member of the rabbit patrol.
Letty, our cats don't really act cat-like. They think they are little humans - just a bit hairier... Especially Nisse! I really cannot imagine him catching anything bigger than a fly or a spider :-)
Ok, I'm a wimp. I'm letting it stay. I reached around and got all of the stuff around it and it sort of crawled off into a corner. With any luck, it will eat the moths.
That's ok, FreeDuck. You are just a good person! And of course it will eat the moths! :-)
I fished a spider out of the bathtub--dry bathtub-- this morning. Yesterday I found the first fly of the season in my kitchen and I'm delighted to do my bit to balance nature my way.
duck. TWo words, vacuum cleaner.
NOOOOOOO!
That is hell.
She has found the way.
I believe it, Urs. Gives new meaning to:
Won't you come into my parlor, both the spider and the fly.
farmerman wrote:duck. TWo words, vacuum cleaner.
Ha ha. I thought of that. The spider was saved by the fact that I'm too lazy to bring it down from upstairs.
Is it
princess? What color are her eyes? If it's her, I want her back.
ok, ok. Spill that molasses all over it.
DEBBIE SHRIEKED UNCONTROLLABLYQuote: NOOOOOOO!
That is hell.
Coming from a country where every spider can kill you, Im surprised at your laissez faire attitude with these creatures.
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