please edit your post and put GROSS or warning or something in there..I cannot stand spiders..and sure wasn't expecting to see that in there..I was thinking racoon , deer, possum, anything but that spider the size of a buick!
Sorry about that! I added a disclaimer to the title.
What do you do if you have a spider of that size INSIDE of your home? I'll admit it- I usually kill bugs inside my house!
I hope to never find a spider of that size inside the house.
We will now open and close doors with much caution and always make sure nothing is following us into the house!
Who was brave enough to put that can beside it?
DD26, or as she is now known, "the brave one".
She set the can down away from the spider, then slowly slid it closer with the aid of a broom.
Better a tarantula than a black widow or brown recluse. At least the tarantulas are not generally aggressive and their venom is usually only a problem to a human if they are allergic (rare). They might look big and scary, but there are many, many worse things you could find in your house.
Yeah, like scorpions.
I'll take the tarantula over a scorpion any day!
The funny thing is that my older daughter and I had just returned from shopping. I parked my car in front of the garage doors and as we walked around to the front of the car, we spotted a much, much smaller spider. I was pondering the possibility of it getting inside the garage.
Awhile later, my husband and our younger daughter went out for ice cream. They were only gone a few seconds when our daughter came running back into the house and telling us we just had to come outside to see this "huge tarantula". My other daughter and I were like, "Yeah, we just saw it on our way in earlier. It wasn't THAT big." She insisted, so we went out and...
It wasn't the spider we had seen earlier! After being sufficiently creeped out, we all kind of just stared at it.
Oddly, I think we were more fascinated by the tarantula then truly horrified. I guess we're getting used to living here in the desert!
