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Mila Webb ([personal profile] m_cobweb) wrote2018-08-10 03:43 pm

Adventures in cat-sitting

I went through my archives and re-uploaded this icon just for this post. Because last night I was introduced personally to the Giant House Spider, a species which apparently was brought to the Pacific Northwest about 1900 and has since become rather famous. Notorious?

I don't think they're poisonous, but I've been told they will run at you. I'm not bothered by spiders in general, but if a three-inch version runs at me, that could change. (I hear some of you screaming from here, don't I?}

My biggest worry was the cat where I'm staying, but I don't think she's inclined to mess with it. I did zip up my bag that it was next to, not wanting a nasty surprise. And it was the first thing I thought of this morning when I woke up. I don't know where it went, but it wasn't on my pillow, and that's the main thing.

I still need to tell my clients they have one of these, but I'm sort of hoping I'll find its naturally-deceased corpse before I have to.

[personal profile] fuyudragon 2018-08-15 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I've had one of those walk over me while watching movies at a friends house and it's steps were audible as it walked away across the carpet. I had words to say. So many words. I'm of the "catch it in a cup and escort it outside" set, until they're too large to fit in the cup. Then it's time to burn everything and start over.

Related: Intellectually, I understood that there are brown recluse spiders in Central Oregon, but I have family living there and I worked in the woods there and none of us ever knowingly encountered them. This summer I visited my grandmother who handed me a bottle of lemon cleaner as soon as I walked in the door and instructed me to spray around the guest bed because the summer heat was driving the brown recluses inside and a neighbor was going through the not-fun results of having been bit in their home. If I didn't love that grandmother so much, I would have bolted.