First thoughts upon seeing this on the dinning room floor.

[Skip Intro]

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Hard to discern from pic but this was a creature of substantial size.

My first thought was, get it out of here, followed quickly by, where did it come from and are there others.

I don't like spiders, but I don't want to kill one if I can help it, so I put a big plastic cup over it, slipped a lottery scratch-off ticket under it, and put it outside.

I might need to have another drink and smoke a bit to prevent myself from dwelling on the idea of his/her brothers/sisters running over me while I sleep tonight.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Skip Intro!

Good for you, saving its life.

And you know, I normally (as in, I've never seen more than one at a time) see only one spider at a time. Never in groups.

I doubt that there are more of them...

[OriginalGeek]

2. First thought?

Well, this is spider's house now. See y'all later.

[fizzgig]

3. thanks for not killing him

my husband would likely have jumped on the couch while i evacuated it.

[dballance]

4. Good for you for not killing it!

Spiders may creep us out but the majority of them are good animals who take out pests like flies.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. Think of it this way....

It chased food into the house.

That food is probably dead now.

Good spider.


On the other hand.......


Stomp/squish usually does the trick.

[NJCher]

6. agreed

You are a champ for not killing the spider. A lot of people would have.

People who don't know much about spiders, for example. After I saw an exhibit on spiders at the Smithsonian in DC, I never looked at spiders the same way again. I realized how valuable they are to gardeners.

There are so many spiders where I live that I almost gave my property the name "Spider Hollow." Generally, we coexist just fine. In my bathroom by the vanity light is a spider web that I can't bring myself to destroy. The spider caught a bug there and feasted on him for about three weeks. Then I saw a little spider join the famb'ly.
It's very cute, watching the little one hang out there with Mama Spidey.

The worst I would do to a spider is pick it up gently and put it outside.


Cher

[LeftofObama]

7. I read a statistic once, I don't remember where, but it basically said that

no matter where you are, you are no more than 6 feet away from a spider at any given time.

[Arugula Latte]

18. Do. Not. Like. That. Statistic.

[Orsino]

8. The big scary ones aren/t dangerous to us.

It's the little bastards who had to evolve the most deadly venoms.

[Callmecrazy]

9. SQUISH IT!!!

And throw it's mangled corpse onto the front lawn to send a message to all other creepy crawlers that those who cross this threshold face the same fate.

Then sleep with one eye open for at least a week to ten days to make sure nothing is trying to exact revenge for the killing of Spidey.

[In_The_Wind]

10. +1

[Demo_Chris]

11. It's us or them, pick a side! nt

[Avalux]

12. Thanks for not killing him. Imagine how scared he was, all alone on that hard shiny surface.

I'm sure he's very grateful to you for sparing his life and he's already let the others know you're not a meenie, so they don't need to organize and attack.

[hunter]

13. I just spun around in my chair and counted five spiders and a dog.

Four of the spiders are the cobweb sort that just sit in their webs doing nothing until they catch an insect ( Pholcus phalangioides ). One is a runner but not a big one.

I mostly leave them alone, and they leave me alone. When they catch flies and occasionally mosquitoes, I cheer them on.

Black Widows don't get to live in our house (well except when my brothers and I used to keep them in jars and feed them flies, which worried my mom...). I will kill black widows in the house, which is the only entirely unacceptable kind I've spider I've found. There are other sorts of spiders and insects, mostly the poisonous kind, that I would not tolerate.

Big running spiders, bigger than could stand on a nickel, those are relocated outside. We live in a place with a mild climate, it doesn't freeze here, so these big spiders just run off happily to terrorize the outdoor insects.

[rug]

14. Better than lizards.

[nolabear]

15. I escort them out and don't think about it. I like spiders.

I probably wouldn't like to imagine them crawling under the covers with me at night, but I don't think about that.

Until now.

KILLITKILLITKILLITKILLIT!!!

[840high]

16. Glad you didn't kill it.

[hibbing]

17. people think I'm a freak

Hey,
Glad to hear other people don't immediately squish them. People at work think I'm a weirdo because I catch them and let them go outside. Spiders do a lot of good. And even though I got a nasty bite from one at home, I still let them go outside.

Peace

[polly7]

19. My thoughts

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