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| Sweet Kassy Molassy Posts: 218/886 |
Originally posted by Riku Yeah. Snakes really aren't that scary. I think for me because they're bigger and therefore less sneaky. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 2450/5072 |
Trouser snakes. My cat pays no attention to spiders, dead or alive.  I just get my shoe and bye-bye! |
| Riku Posts: 1369/1823 |
I actually fear spiders more than snakes.
I handle snakes daily. |
| asdf Posts: 2563/4077 |
True story: I was browsing the web, turned my head to the left (facing the wall), and noticed a spider on my wall. I ignored him. Later, a fly was buzzing around me. I'm not sure what kind it was - but it was just larger than the size of a pea. It landed on my desktop. Instead of squishing it, I thought for a moment. I moved in and grabbed it by the wing. It struggled to get free, but to no avail. I then passed it over to my guest on the wall. It seemed to hesitate for a moment, then graciously accepted my gift. I smiled as the arachnid devoured the annoying insect. After it was finished, it retreated into the corner of my room to rest. When I woke up the next day, it was gone, probably to look for food elsewhere. Since that one time, I've done it quite a bit with other spiders.
And also, as others have mentioned, there is already a spider topic. There's really no need for a second one. 
And speaking of which, 
And on a more serious note, you'd let one of nature's most beneficial species go extinct just because of your pathetic fears? Bah. If your foolish wish is ever granted, you'd regret it after a short while, when tons of insects start swarming in. |
| Kingpin Posts: 431/709 |
Who says you have to watch them feed? It could be like a miniature Jurassic Park, sans the Dinosaurs and Jeff Goldblum. |
| Tarale Posts: 1325/2713 |
Originally posted by Kario Eww.... watching kitty eat spidey is VERY GROSS. 
My kitten used to like to play with spiders... just kinda bat them around... chew on them.... bat it around with its paws some more... give chase..... chew... Icky, icky, icky, icky. |
| Deleted User Posts: 16/-7750 |
Originally posted by Kario No. I need something that will work everytime, which dogs and cats don't. Besides, if I did that with my dog or cat, my parents would get pissed. Having your pet eat insects and then you find out it has some fatal disease weeks later because it's been eating dead spiders doesn't really make things better. I want something that kills the bug and cleans it up. I could try a fly swatter, but I need one that's thin enough to get under it. I hear Wal-Mart has solutions for everything. I may be able to find something there. |
| Kingpin Posts: 430/709 |
Do you have a dog or a cat? |
| Deleted User Posts: 15/-7750 |
Originally posted by Kario There's a brown outline on my wall from where I crushed a spider with a T.V. Guide that had something about the 9/11 attacks on the front of it. The only reason I remember that is because I still have that T.V. Guide. Might as well check what was on back in 2001.
Originally posted by Tarale I hear explosives work quite nicely on killing things, but those may take you too long to set up. I have a slight problem with killing insects, and that's cleaning it up. I don't like feeling it's exterior be crushed within the paper towel. I would get a vaccum cleaner out, but I'm just too lazy. There must be another way... |
| Tarale Posts: 1323/2713 |
Originally posted by Kasdarack I dunno -- like I said, all I'm trying to do is stun the spider into closer range. I prefer to kill it with a shoe. I find that poisons here are effective at stunning the spider enough for me to be able to whack it into a flattened mess. Although it IS possible to kill spiders with the sprays we have here, it just takes too long and quite a bit of spray. I want the spider dead FAST dammit! The sooner its dead, the sooner I can relax. |
| Kingpin Posts: 429/709 |
I freak out when I see spiders too. I once walked in my room and saw a pretty sizable spider sitting on the window sill. I ran back into the hall, grabbed a can of green spray paint, and went back to spray it. There is now a green outline of a spider on the window sill. |
| Deleted User Posts: 14/-7750 |
Originally posted by Kasdarack But a can of Axe is. One time I found this spider that was about a few centimeters long on the window in my bedroom, but I was afraid to hit it because I didn't want it falling on my unclean floor, so I went into my bathroom and took out a can of Axe. By the time I had returned, it had gone into the blinds, but I nudged it out and as soon as I saw it I sprayed it down. It soon became a pile of interesting smelling dead. I'm not sure exactly what killed it. It was either the chemicals in the spray, the amount of spray I used, which left a large puddle on my windowsill, that could've drowned it, or just the scent of it that killed it, but it died and that's what matters most. Now I keep a can of Axe in my room for things like this even though my mom hates the scent of it. It kills them so I don't care. |
| Tarale Posts: 1322/2713 |
Hooray for clockspider.
I'd attempt to squish 'im with the clock. If that failed, I'd bang the clock around till he was in shoe-smackin' range.
Ahhh likes the shoe-smackin'. |
| Sweet Kassy Molassy Posts: 214/886 |
I find 90% isoprophyl alcohol to be more effective than most commercially available poisons.
It might be that you can get better poisons in Australia than we can here. *edit* The above pic makes me wanna cry... |
| Kingpin Posts: 428/709 |
Don't forget to kill this too:
And by "this" I mean old fads trying to resurface. |
| Tarale Posts: 1320/2713 |
Funny. I find spray poisons quite effective - just very very slow.
A shoe is much faster. 
Although spray poisons have their benefits in getting a spider to drop to an acceptable shoe-smackin' level). |
| Doritokiller Posts: 171/369 |
If we were mere blades of grass, spiders would be an actual threat to us. You should see what happens when you throw a blade of grass onto a spider web. It's like a mini-tiger or something.
(I love how almost everyone acted as if the other thread didn't exist) |
| Alastor Posts: 6234/8204 |
Originally posted by Racer XeoThat's what I said, too... It's like they can't read. |
| Darkdata Posts: 272/983 |
And I'm having a hard time believing that a can of Raid would be very effective against spiders as most of them are highly resistant to conventional poisons. But I suppose that spiderlings are easier to kill. Yeah because of the stuff you learn in biology by the surival of the ones that are immune to the poison that would be true. However I panicked and well I saw the raid can first. |
| Sweet Kassy Molassy Posts: 199/886 |
Why was the broom in the trash can instead of OUTSIDE?
And I'm having a hard time believing that a can of Raid would be very effective against spiders as most of them are highly resistant to conventional poisons. But I suppose that spiderlings are easier to kill. What are those spiders that carry thier spiderlings on thier back? Is that a wolf spider? I forget. I sprayed one down one night instead of stomping because I didn't want hundreds of little spiders all over the place. Covered her completely in toxic foam. Poison + suffocation. The little ones died, but about an hour later I watched her uncurl and start to walk away. I shuddered, wanted to cry, and stomped her into the carpet. |
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