Tarantula
I've handled large spiders and snakes several times before.
They don't scare me because I understand the golden rule... treat them with respect!
Don't ever get into an enclosure with a moody animal!

So picture the scene... my friend invites me to take a look at the tarantulas and giant stick-insects that he is breeding.
And he adds, "Only don't get too close to 'The Mama' (taranula) because she is shedding at the moment, which upsets her and makes her moody". Think of it as a very bad case of 'time-of-the-month'.

So into his heated shed we go.
Lots of creepy-crawlies everywhere, safely shut away in heated glass cases. Nice.

We turn to look at The Mama. Only to discover that her glass case is empty. She's done a runner - she is big enough to push the lid of her case off!
Oh crap!!

Friend tells me that I cannot leave now... if we open the door to the shed, the Mama might escape.

So there I stand in a tiny shed... knowing that there is a very large and very pissed-off spider moving around in there with me (don't look up), whilst my friend pokes around in the corners with a fishing net trying to recapture Mama... think of the scene from the first Alien film where the face-hugger comes off the chap's face and they are poking around the science lab trying to find it.



Length?... you should have seen the size of that twunting spider!
(IcePimp, Thu 2 Jun 2005, 14:20, Reply)