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What do you do when you come across a spider?

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I'll chat to it, ask it how its day has been, and ask what its having for tea.

This reminds me of that 'tiger came to tea' book, but I can't remember anything else about it and it's annoying me now :lol:

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kka25

Original post by furryface12

If it's not bothering me I'll just leave it. Occasionally if it's on my bed or something or my mum or sister find one then I'll put a plastic cup over it and take it outside :smile:

Edit: Why do so many people here kill them? :sad:

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What if it suddenly mutated and had wings and flew on your face?

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kka25

Original post by ryan9900

I'll chat to it, ask it how its day has been, and ask what its having for tea.

Spiders don't deserve tea. But I'd be glad to give you some.

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ryan9900

Original post by kka25

Spiders don't deserve tea. But I'd be glad to give you some.

Spiders deserve all the tea that there ever was.

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furryface12

Original post by kka25

What if it suddenly mutated and had wings and flew on your face?

Wouldn't that just make them a daddy-longlegs? :tongue:

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anosmianAcrimony

Original post by joey11223

We'll base this on the last spider I encountered...well...last house spider anyway.

So I see a giant spider on the ceiling, initially I think "oh **** no" because I think it's something else, but luckily it was indeed a simple house spider. So what do I do now? I get a my plant sprayer and pump it up, then start firing water near the spider in short bursts to herd it to the other side of the ceiling, where I could stand on a chair and put a plastic takeaway box over it, then slid the lid on. With the spider inside the takeaway tub I confirmed it was a mature male. I then placed a small mealworm in the tub, which after calming down for a minute it proceeded to approach and lunge at. This was a week ago, what is happening now? The spider is in a slightly bigger tub, and has eaten a small cockroach, I say small it was actually over half the size of the spider and it was amusing watching the spider trying to over-power it, but it prevailed.

....so yes, that is what I do...

You're cooler than the rest of this thread put together.

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kka25

Original post by ryan9900

Spiders deserve all the tea that there ever was.

But they don't like teacups and teapots, how should we give them tea then?

Reply 27

Truflais

Original post by pickup

Catch it, piece of paper and tumbler job, put it outside.

Yeah this. They don't scare me at all but I always put them outside anyway.

Original post by AstroNandos

Well what frightens me are the ones like this:

(image from Google images)

I guess it's because I'm not used to seeing ones this big. I'll happily stay in the same room as it, as long as it can't touch me.

One of those just crawled by my feet. I was going to grab a cup and throw it out the window (for the 50th time) but it scuppered away before I got back.
Haven't done much about it since. No idea where it went, and not all that many cares given. Evacuated two from my younger brother's room yesterday. Seems it's their season.