Spider prevention

[god'sunwantedkid]

Just found an absolute beast in the bathroom, now the whole house is on lock down.

Any tips on preventing these devil creatures from coming into the house?

My cats are no use, they just laugh at me.

[Jasandjules]

Just get a piece of paper and when he walks on it take him to the window and let him out..

[axgizmo]

Unless you don't spot it creep under your pillow and you swallow it in your sleep, if that happens its too late

Sorry

[yellowjack]

Prevent Spiders? Why? Just let them alone to get on with things. Obviously not great things to have in the house, leaving unsightly webs and discarded 'skins' all over the place, but they eat stuff that would be less pleasant to have around the place. And they are absolutely beautiful creatures if you can bring yourself to study them closely.

Buy a 'bug catcher' and catch them humanely, then release them outside. If you squash them, you are just as bad as someone who poisons cats with anti-freeze, IMHO.

I currently have a 'False Widow' from the garage, in a 'mini-beast viewer' to show the kids tomorrow.

[Simpo Two]

Jasandjules said:

Just get a piece of paper and when he walks on it take him to the window and let him out..

Or if it's a 'runner', a piece of cardboard and a glass.

[poing]

Fire, mainly by using fire and lots of it. Once you get a spider in the house it's too late, they will text all their friends and before you know there will something horrible like 3 or 4 spiders in the house. At this point you have to move house, again. The best way to stop them is to burn the house down now then build a new house with a moat, a really wide moat, filled with oil in case you need to use fire again.

[god'sunwantedkid]

poing said:

Fire, mainly by using fire and lots of it. Once you get a spider in the house it's too late, they will text all their friends and before you know there will something horrible like 3 or 4 spiders in the house. At this point you have to move house, again. The best way to stop them is to burn the house down now then build a new house with a moat, a really wide moat, filled with oil in case you need to use fire again.

That's more like it, let the digging commence .

[Gretchen]

Conkers.

A few years ago I was rather bemused when Conkers started appearing in the corners of my rooms and resting upon curtain rails.


Apparently, according to my children Spiders are afraid of Conkers.

I removed the Conkers (except from the kids rooms) because I love Spiders. Children don't seem to have Spiders in their rooms anymore though...

[DoctorX]

Anything that eats those fkers is a friend of mine. Semi-venomous or not.

[Meoricin]

yellowjack said:

Prevent Spiders? Why? Just let them alone to get on with things. Obviously not great things to have in the house, leaving unsightly webs and discarded 'skins' all over the place, but they eat stuff that would be less pleasant to have around the place. And they are absolutely beautiful creatures if you can bring yourself to study them closely.

Buy a 'bug catcher' and catch them humanely, then release them outside. If you squash them, you are just as bad as someone who poisons cats with anti-freeze, IMHO.

I currently have a 'False Widow' from the garage, in a 'mini-beast viewer' to show the kids tomorrow.

Seriously? You really can't see a distinction? Why not go all the way, and claim that people who squash spiders probably wish they were in charge of concentration camps?

[RobbieKB]

Meoricin said:

yellowjack said:

Prevent Spiders? Why? Just let them alone to get on with things. Obviously not great things to have in the house, leaving unsightly webs and discarded 'skins' all over the place, but they eat stuff that would be less pleasant to have around the place. And they are absolutely beautiful creatures if you can bring yourself to study them closely.

Buy a 'bug catcher' and catch them humanely, then release them outside. If you squash them, you are just as bad as someone who poisons cats with anti-freeze, IMHO.

I currently have a 'False Widow' from the garage, in a 'mini-beast viewer' to show the kids tomorrow.

Seriously? You really can't see a distinction? Why not go all the way, and claim that people who squash spiders probably wish they were in charge of concentration camps?

Yeah that's absolutely mental. I appreciate that drawing the line is difficult but you cannot equate squashing a spider with poisoning someone's pet. Utter jibberish.

[yellowjack]

Hmmm.

Forum title = ALL creatures great AND SMALL

It is not called "show me the pictures of the cute furries you own, then allow out unsupervised to st in other peoples gardens" is it?

So if you don't like to hear other peoples' opinions, why subscribe to a "FORUM" which as you should know, is loosely defined as a "place in which opinion can be presented, and discussed"

As someone who has taken in all sorts of animals, mostly those that were bought by idiots who had no idea of the commitment required of ownership (from rats to degus, and reptiles to fish) I feel well placed to hold an opinion of pet ownership. It is a very selfish path to tread when you BUY a pet. Everything I have ever taken in has been a rescue, and always as a result of stupidity or greed on the part of a human being.

Before you criticise ME for MY opinion, all you cat'n'dog owners should get your own houses in order. Control your animals, and clear up their mess.

And before anyone gets any silly ideas about me, and the wrong end of the stick about what I said...

yellowjack said:

<of spiders> "If you squash them, you are just as bad as someone who poisons cats with anti-freeze, IMHO."

What I meant by that was that squashing spiders is unpleasant and wrong. In exactly the same way that poisoning a cat is hateful, nasty, and very very wrong. I never suggested that the anti-freeze comment was funny. It wasn't meant to be.

You cat people need to get over yourselves. You allow a reasonable sized carnivore with very sharp teeth and claws that you can never truly tame (and which cleans it's arse with it's own tongue ) to share your home. Yet you jump onto the sofa at sight of the poor bewildered 8-legged work of art that has just found itself inside your home, and is incapable of causing harm to you, and promptly beat it to death with a rolled up newspaper.

Way to go, tough guy

Edited by yellowjack on Monday 13th May 12:37

[Mymk5zs123]

RobbieKB said:

Meoricin said:

yellowjack said:

Prevent Spiders? Why? Just let them alone to get on with things. Obviously not great things to have in the house, leaving unsightly webs and discarded 'skins' all over the place, but they eat stuff that would be less pleasant to have around the place. And they are absolutely beautiful creatures if you can bring yourself to study them closely.

Buy a 'bug catcher' and catch them humanely, then release them outside. If you squash them, you are just as bad as someone who poisons cats with anti-freeze, IMHO.

I currently have a 'False Widow' from the garage, in a 'mini-beast viewer' to show the kids tomorrow.

Seriously? You really can't see a distinction? Why not go all the way, and claim that people who squash spiders probably wish they were in charge of concentration camps?

Yeah that's absolutely mental. I appreciate that drawing the line is difficult but you cannot equate squashing a spider with poisoning someone's pet. Utter jibberish.

Killing a spider is exactly the same as killing any other animal in my opinion. It's wrong.

[yellowjack]

Gaz. said:

yellowjack said:

Yet you jump onto the sofa at sight of the poor bewildered 8-legged work of art that has just found itself inside your home, and is incapable of causing harm to you, and promptly beat it to death with a rolled up newspaper.

Way to go, tough guy

Your new mate in the garage may beg to differ. I don't mind spiders in my house, but I do mind those ones, especially as they love hiding in shoes and laundry.

Point made. Yes, you can get a nasty nip from one of those, but having spent a fair bit of time living in tents in the likes of Kenya and Iraq, the False Widow is just a cute, shiny spider. In the garage I've just got myself used to looking where I'm going to put my hands before I actually pick things up

Sadly, a leak in the garage roof over the winter caused my home-built cage to rot, so I had to break it up. The wife has forbidden the taking in of any more rodents, anyway. So I had to break it up to get it to the recycling centre (d-2ft x h-4ft x w-3.5ft and built from 2" x 2" timber). I was very angry with myself because when I dragged it away from the wall I must have rolled it over some of it's (uninvited) occupants, killing them. I would have lifted it if I could, but it was a two-man lift.

And yes, I felt very bad about having killed something, however unintentional.

[RobbieKB]

Mymk5zs123 said:

RobbieKB said:

Meoricin said:

yellowjack said:

Prevent Spiders? Why? Just let them alone to get on with things. Obviously not great things to have in the house, leaving unsightly webs and discarded 'skins' all over the place, but they eat stuff that would be less pleasant to have around the place. And they are absolutely beautiful creatures if you can bring yourself to study them closely.

Buy a 'bug catcher' and catch them humanely, then release them outside. If you squash them, you are just as bad as someone who poisons cats with anti-freeze, IMHO.

I currently have a 'False Widow' from the garage, in a 'mini-beast viewer' to show the kids tomorrow.

Seriously? You really can't see a distinction? Why not go all the way, and claim that people who squash spiders probably wish they were in charge of concentration camps?

Yeah that's absolutely mental. I appreciate that drawing the line is difficult but you cannot equate squashing a spider with poisoning someone's pet. Utter jibberish.

Killing a spider is exactly the same as killing any other animal in my opinion. It's wrong.

So to qualify, killing a spider is as wrong as murdering a child or a lady in the street? Killing any animal is equally morally abhorrent. Is that what you're saying?

[Glenred]

RobbieKB said:

Mymk5zs123 said:

RobbieKB said:

Meoricin said:

yellowjack said:

Prevent Spiders? Why? Just let them alone to get on with things. Obviously not great things to have in the house, leaving unsightly webs and discarded 'skins' all over the place, but they eat stuff that would be less pleasant to have around the place. And they are absolutely beautiful creatures if you can bring yourself to study them closely.

Buy a 'bug catcher' and catch them humanely, then release them outside. If you squash them, you are just as bad as someone who poisons cats with anti-freeze, IMHO.

I currently have a 'False Widow' from the garage, in a 'mini-beast viewer' to show the kids tomorrow.

Seriously? You really can't see a distinction? Why not go all the way, and claim that people who squash spiders probably wish they were in charge of concentration camps?

Yeah that's absolutely mental. I appreciate that drawing the line is difficult but you cannot equate squashing a spider with poisoning someone's pet. Utter jibberish.

Killing a spider is exactly the same as killing any other animal in my opinion. It's wrong.

So to qualify, killing a spider is as wrong as murdering a child or a lady in the street? Killing any animal is equally morally abhorrent. Is that what you're saying?

You lot are mental! It's a fking spider squish it now!

[lufbramatt]

Man up it's a little spider ffs. Just put it outside if you don't like it.

And after seeing the aftermath of two cats that killed ten baby bluetits as they left the nest at my parents next door neighbours a few weeks back, I think all cats should be banned, horrible spiteful creatures. I was on the verge of strangling the bd things there and then.

[Sexual Chocolate]

Gretchen said:

Conkers.

A few years ago I was rather bemused when Conkers started appearing in the corners of my rooms and resting upon curtain rails.


Apparently, according to my children Spiders are afraid of Conkers.

I removed the Conkers (except from the kids rooms) because I love Spiders. Children don't seem to have Spiders in their rooms anymore though...

Last Autumn the wifey asked me to collect conkers on the golf course. A strange request but I humoured her. When I presented her with them she set them up around the house. Have to admit that I really didn't see many spiders after she did this.