Spiders are OK.
Run away screaming like a girl? Its what they like you to do, and gives them a sort of thrill - thats why they prefer to drop into girly-girls baths and showers rather than blokes ones, the reactions are normally better!
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I've loved, I've laughed and cried, I've had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing.

I used to have quite an interesting tarantua collection. I think I commented on it in another forum. Hey, after years of owning snakes, everyone kept telling me to get a furry pet...

I suppose it will make me quite unpopular on here that I used to willingly co-habitate with not just one arachnid, but enough to warrant the term "collection." Never fear, I had to sell them all when I moved to the UK and the ones that are legal here aren't very interesting

With regards to the topic, should I have encountered one out of the cage (which only ever happened once by surprise, but they are fast buggers and tend to skitter off when handling if you're not careful), I'd first close off all the doors to contain the problem, and then make sure it's nowhere dangrous to itself (tarantulas are well-adapted to the jungle but poorly adapted to the modern home). After that, the recapture strategy depends on the species.

From a purely financial point of view, I wouldn't even consider squishing any of the animals I owned, since some were worth >100 quid each. Some were also highly endangered (but legally captive-bred), so there's another reason to treat them well!

(But even I scream like a girl when I run across one of those horrid spindly garden spiders in the shower!)

I try very hard to let them be these days. I used to have a full on phobia of them but have made myself deal with the fear in the vain hope my kids wouldn't turn out to be girly-girls with spiders.

anybody seen the film arachnid? that is bad..especially the scene when one spider comes out of the man..eww.

depends now big the spider is in question..if its big then i would attempt bto catch it and set it free..but usually ends up with me killing it in frustration because i cant catch it
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I was woken up early hours of the morning by my daughter..who had been sleeping beside me..she said 'Mum keep very very still' with that I screamed and jumped up..and just saw this huge hairy thing scurry off across the bed..Apparently my daughter woke up to see this spider on my face..EWWWWW

at last, a 'run up the sleeves'

Nah don't think so, but I'd think twice about calling round Seriously tho, I'd be happy looking at them in a glass case - alive of course I think they are facinating creatures - this may sound morbid but I study them closely sometimes befor the squish...

Never been too bothered by them. Spent some time in Australia where the big ones (Huntsmen) are relatively harmless, but big, hairy and quick, while the deadly ones (Redbacks) are tiny but lethal. It was a major pain in the butt getting the Huntsman that run under the fridge out though...

An ex of mine had a great story about going on a caravan holiday with her dad, and her dad complaining about a loud scratching sound in the caravan at night.

After two days of it he suddenly leapt for the sink, filled a glass with water and poured it in his ear. My ex and her sister started laughing at him for being completely bonkers, but when he tilted his head the other way, not one but two spiders came out with the water.

I didn't sleep the night she told me that one...

i shout my dad and it doesnt matter what time it is in fact its more of a scream and he comes at the horrible thing with an old pringles tube! otherwise its hoover hairspray bleach any other type of cleaner and at the moment the end of my crutches ... after the offending thinghas been despatched i have to go wash as the sight makes me shake and hyperventalate and scratch myself - its a full blown fear

I tell them my life story then squish them!
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I leave spiders. they might eat the flying daddy longlegs. If they fly into me I puke. Horrid like something out of a hammer horror to me.