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furtechOn return from dogwalk, I go out to take the trash cans down to the curb...and what do I spy? This handsome feller! (Spiders outside are handsome/lovely creatures unless they're crawling on our faces because we just walked into a giant web...)
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He's another male tarantula, similar to the one who tried to crawl into my back door a few years ago. Sodden and miserable, he was crawling on the wall next to the garbage cans. I'm a little surprised to see one out this late in the mating season. I felt a male-geeky kind of sympathy ("I feel yer pain, buddy!) and scooted him into a handy bug container. After a few pictures, I dropped him off on the south-facing hillside in my yard where he'll probably have better luck than his fellow geeks.
Oh, and after I did spider-duty, I found a live bee on my kitchen floor (around midnight). Very odd.
There's a quarter there for size ref. Here's a larger pic for those interested
He's another male tarantula, similar to the one who tried to crawl into my back door a few years ago. Sodden and miserable, he was crawling on the wall next to the garbage cans. I'm a little surprised to see one out this late in the mating season. I felt a male-geeky kind of sympathy ("I feel yer pain, buddy!) and scooted him into a handy bug container. After a few pictures, I dropped him off on the south-facing hillside in my yard where he'll probably have better luck than his fellow geeks.
Oh, and after I did spider-duty, I found a live bee on my kitchen floor (around midnight). Very odd.
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Date: 2004-10-18 01:26 pm (UTC)There are tons of spiders, none much bigger than a dime, but LOTS of them always in the breezeway to my apartment ... and one of them LOVES to build a web across the top of the front doorframe. When I take Casey out in the morning I have to be careful not to get a faceful of web EVERY DAY.
Out on the grounds there are bigger spiders who also love to occasionally put up a massive web between two trees right at head-height ... I've gotten into the habit of holding Casey's leash up above head-height as I walk between trees to catch the web before my face does.
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Date: 2004-10-18 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-18 04:55 pm (UTC)I'd have to see how Casey does with that. First off she loves people but she's sorta 50/50 on how she reacts to other dogs ... we'll have to see how she gets along with Frieda or any other random dogs along the way.
Second I haven't had time or opportunity to off-leash train her much, since leashes are required around here (plus, with the afforementioned unpredictability, I don't want her running off after any other dog she sees.) So she might have to be leash-girl on the dogwalks if she goes.
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Date: 2004-10-18 05:24 pm (UTC)