Can you keep a house spider as a pet?

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Well it smells better than a dog and doesn't tear your curtains like a cat.

But, what would you feed it?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Last year there was this HUGE spider who made his home just outside my front door, so technically he wasn't a house spider. I named him Rex and caught moths that flew by the porch lights to feed him. He got even HUGER. Then, one day, he was gone. Someday I'll get over it.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The only problem is that if you don't get him neutered you're gonna be placing an advert for "10 million spider babies free to good homes" next year

― winterland, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

and you need a tiny pair of scissors to get them desexed.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't name them all, otherwise you'll start getting attatched to them nd wont be able to give 'em up.

― winterland, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

and don't stroke their fur backwards, they hate that and will bite you.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Keep it in a dry fishtank and feed it flies and other dead insects, preferably fresh. Make sure it has a shallow bottle top of water to drink from. You can tell when a spider is thirsty because its tongue hangs out slightly.

― Bunged Out (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

make sure you explain to the first 500,000 or so that that the next enormous hungry brood coming along wont mean that you love them any less, try and make sure you spend at least some 'quality time' with each one each day and don't let them sleep in your bed after they're 6 or 7 weeks old.

― winterland, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I really don't approve of the practise some students have of getting their spider stoned and then watching them try to spin a web or eat a fly.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Unless it leads to this;
http://www.sangamonauditorium.org/images/web.jpg

― winterland, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Well that's a good thing. (Except that ain't the original illustration, so fuck it.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/3752/dscn3508sv7.jpg

I don't want to kill it so I can't throw it outside in the snow and I can't risk to put it in a nowhere corner of the house since it's pretty mobile and I don't want to risk being bitten.

― Sébastien, Sunday, 20 January 2008 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, nice picture!

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 20 January 2008 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

I has a spider

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 20 January 2008 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

that's a house spider??!??! i might just move out

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 20 January 2008 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

I get a lot of spiders in my room now and again (mostly gigantic wolf spiders), and I motherfucking sure as hell ain't keeping them as pets.

One time I swatted one of them and it turned out it was a mama spider carrying hundreds of babies on its back. I had to step on them all. A loathsom experience straight outta Arachnophobia, maaan.

With the amount of spiders Ive killed over the years I must be the arachno-boogie man to their kind.

I Am Legend.

― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 January 2008 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2034/araneideicide2zy4.jpg

― Sébastien, Sunday, 20 January 2008 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

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