I've had a tarantula for about 10 years now. she stays in a cage upstairs on the balcony ledge and I feed her every few months. Well, carina's been worried about them knocking the spider down. I haven't been worried about it cause the cage has been there for 2 1/2 years...
Well, I can in the door from my radio show and I had a crashing noise.
one of the cats was sitting on it and jumped off startled when I came in and knocked the cage to the ground.
it woke carina up and she yelled "the spider, where is the spider!"
I got up stairs and saw her climbing towards the edge of the flipped over tank. her abdomen is crushed and split open. as she walked around (one or two of her legs are working) she leaves a moist trailed of clear blood. it's sad for me cause I've had her for so long. I bungied up the cage and put it inside a huge box, poked some holes in the box, put a glass of water with a moist paper towel hanging out of it to wick the water and closed the box up. I know that she can't survive the injuries, but I figure that leaving her in a warm dark place with moisture is best thing I can do. Maybe there will be some sort of xmas miracle or kwansa something that will save her, but she was already really old for a spider.
*sigh*

http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/G-rosea.html
chilean rose tartantula.
I just read they can live 15-20 years.

That's awful.

She'll always have Peter Brady.

all cats should die.

i feel so horrible about it :(

spiders are scary

I looked at her and she basically bled out.

i don't like spiders, but that's sad. i'm trying to imagine all the memories you had with her and i see the two of you playing frisbee in the park, the spider being walked down the street on a leash, and the two of you snuggling up on the couch to watch a movie.

all the great memories of you looking at the spider sit there in a cage, and do nothing but wish it could eat you.

i hate spiders.

It sounds barbaric, but I might have put the thing out of its misery.......its suffering.
I know if I had a seeping gut wound that wasnt going to heal, I d want to be flushed down the toilet.

I thought about that as I went to bed. I'm pretty sure she was dead before I finished putting her in a box.

DEATH 2 THE CATS

you mean Katz, don't you.

As much as Spiders fucking terrify me, that's still really shitty to actually watch one of your pets die. Sorry to hear that Rev.

you're not the first person i've known that grew attached to a spider. i have a friend that before he moved, owned many many spiders, including a goliath bird eater. when one died he was very distraught.

damn, 10 yr old spider? I never knew they lived that long. It's definitely sad when your pet is on the outs no matter what kind of animal it is.

To show the spider your respect in its dying throes, perhaps you should eat it. And please post pictures of this act.
Sorry to hear about your spider though. Animals that eat other animals = great.

Now go out and replace it with a goliath bird eater so it can bite the damn cats and make them not come back!

Sucks about the poor spider. If it was Jewish, remember to have your rebbe collect the blood, as the blood of any Jew is the flesh of G-d.

Sorry to hear about the pet. :(

And I just googled goliath bird eater... jesus!

those spiders scare me to...

Look at the bright side, there are a lot of happy little crickets out there.

That spider gives me the chills...

it gives me the willies

Dude, sadness. Yer harshin' my buzz.

i need to find video of one of those goliaths reachin out and grabbin a bird out of the air

doubt youll find it since they grab the bird once it is stuck in its web

not true. they don't spin webs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBYpJ-y-31I

their fangs are massive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN70n3xnaIo

that mouse isn't very smart haha

even if my brain was that small i still think i'd be able to notice the 12" spider right next to me

they should make a sequel to arachnophobia...that movie was awesome

Nationalism would separate the spiders and the cats.

http://www.pan-nationalism.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMzCf3XlSg&mode=related&search=

Saw this pretty cool National Geographic video on the Goliath Bird Eater. Even though Spiders scare the shit out of me, that video is pretty damned cool.

cats > spiders

oh, uh...sorry about your spider, too. :(

It's fucking stupid that youtube has become so popular. It has the shitiest flash video player I've ever seen.