It’s the only way! But then as a mother you have the duty to “protect your children from the creepy crawly” so you gotta do what you gotta do…
In my case the conversation would go:
To my children: “Wait, I need to go get something to take care of it…”
Before I walk away I turn to the spider and say: “I give you a fair warning. You can now leave and please head outside and just disappear and we act as nothing has ever happened. Or you can cooperate when Itry to catch you to throw you outside. If you don’t the next option will not end well for you…”
Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it doesn’t. I really don’t like to kill spiders and I rarely do but sometimes, when they are the big venomous once I admit that I can’t help myself…
I once lived in a basement suite that was absolutely filled with spiders. They were literally crawling through the woodwork. My then boyfriend now husband took a roll of duct tape and taped every hole and crack he could find. It eventually worked, but there were many other things wrong with the suite so I eventually moved. I wonder what the landlord thought when she saw all the duct tape!
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Horror!!!!
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I admire you for being able to talk to a spider. I hold my breath and swat.
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Well, I hope it will show me the same respect… give me a chance to flea…
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Eeek. Reminds me of my close encounter last week. 🙀
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Need to read it!!!
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Ooh, caution needed …
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Eww, gives me a chill just looking at the picture!
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Spiders have their place in the balance of nature but I tend to agree with you that inside our homes we want nature’s scales to be tipped heavily in our favor. Outside the house and yard I tend to let the native fauna fend for itself. Even our fabled fire ants serve to keep the tick population under control.
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So totally agree with you!
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Was thinking the same thing!
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Oh my. That photo! You are one tough gal! Also fearless spider handler! I was but my a brown recluse several years ago – jerk apparently was hiding in my shoe ….
So now I just have a panic attack when I see them (small or large). I almost lost my toe!!! I just chat get over it, wondered to you lovely! You protect your home and with pride!! I am crossing my fingers that your chats with this ugly guys continues to work 🙂 ♥️
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You are in Australia, right? Which means your spiders are like Mack trucks! The Dude and I once encountered one on a pillow in a motel that was so huge and scary we thought it was a ‘pretend’ joke spider. Then it moved.
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I know! Honestly I have not yet seen a really big one and I’m glad about it!!!
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Your Australian spiders are completely different (scary) and the rest of the world’s spiders.
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The biggest one I ever saw was out in the Red Centre when we visited Uluru and it was sitting right above the door to our hotel room when we came back from dinner 😱
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How big was it?
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As big as my hand…
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EEEEK! I don’t mind spiders but I think that one would have given me the heebee jeebees.
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It’s just a little bit of a different game here in regards to spiders. I didn’t mind them at all back in Switzerland, not even the big ones. But then they are also not venomous to the point where they are dangerous. Here it’s different and I honestly don’t want one of my kids being bitten by one and then lose them. I rather say bye to the spider…
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Exactly. Here in Canada I feel safe around spiders because I know they’re not poisonous. In Australia, everything is poisonous! 😀
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I really don’t like spiders and what you said sounds a bit familiar to what I say to them… lol! When they are in the cellar… I really don’t care anymore. I even talk to them and just take care I don’t step on them. But when they are elsewhere in the house the have to leave. The big ones I catch with a glass and put outside.
I got really good in that. There were times when I had panic attacks seeing a bigger one. But I worked on myself and once I held a tarantula in my hands it lost the fear – not the disgust but the fear!
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You are a brace woman! Not sure if I could hold a tarantula…
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The time was right! I would do it again. That animal made it possible for me to step over my fear. Since it was so light I did not even feel it clearly… lol!
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Spiders are icky but I think they are cool. The ones found in your country though…are just scary!!! 😅 I wouldn’t want to kill them but I don’t want to be killed either!!
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Exactly my point…
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