[Parsnip]

He's a funky little chap Scabs...I don't mind house soiders but i wouldn't want Sidney running across the lounge.. or should I say saunter..

I'm just wondering where Poultrygheist has got to.. maybe I should be really mean and pm him Sydneys pic...


Spiders are definitely friend...

[scabs]

 

[sunshineband]

Hi Sunshine, yeah... (s)he's my baby.  Sidney is a Salmon Pink Bird Eater (Lasiodora parahybana), she has a legspan of about 7" or so and she's a bit of a bad tempered one. I also have a Mexican Red Knee (the classic 'James Bond villain') though she is only a baby.

Trillium, you must have lovely soft skin!  Wasn't having a pop, but it is fairly rare for adults to get a proper bite off native spiders (and I realise I am now setting myself up for a fall as everyone on the forum posts stories of their bites!  ) However, having been bitten by spiders, snakes and lizards, rats, hamsters and chipmonks, stung by scorpions, struck ill by poison frogs and pooed on by monkeys, I know that animals can be unpredictable and, well, tetchy. 
I have been campaigning for years against the bad rep of Tarantuas in the press and so forth and I guess I just can't help myself... 

Tryin' to tell you somfink then??? 

[Ice]

Never been bitten by a spider in the UK but managed to get bitten while in Canada.  Lump the size of a golf ball on my leg.

Have a look at this.  We're being invaded.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090519/tuk-deadly-widow-weaves-web-across-brita-45dbed5.html

[scabs]

"Deadly" 

This is exactly the type of hysterical reporting that drives me mad. 

Read this: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/may/news_11767.html

There is ALWAYS the issue of allergy, but this can be true of virtually any animal native to these shores: my Nan nearly died having been stung by a bee and my mother was hospitalised after spending time near horses!)

The stats don't lie. Spiders are nice. 



Sunshine, I used to work in a pet shop and, although I am proud of the fact thast I get on very well with animals generally (honest!), there are always those that just don't like being handled.   

[oldbean]

Well put scabs.

To put things in perspective, the most dangerous animals on the planet are humans.

[sunshineband]

Sunshine, I used to work in a pet shop and, although I am proud of the fact thast I get on very well with animals generally (honest!), there are always those that just don't like being handled.     
  
 
Hmmm the secret must be in knowing which do and which don't I guess 

[scabs]

I'm a slow learner... 

[sunshineband]

Oh dear