Name: lindalu Title: Found my spider

Remember I said my daughter lost her tarantula?

Well.... apparently it was hiding some where in the wheel chair that she was renting while hers was being repaired.

What happened was.... when my daughters chair was finally repaired the repair guys came out to my house to pick up the loaner wheel chair that she had been using until hers was repaired, they then took the loaner wheel chair with the hidden tarantula back to the shop.

Today I got a knock at my door... it was the repair guy, he said that the shop had called him, asking if he knew any one with a large spider. He automatically remembered us telling him about our lost tarantula, because he didn't have our phone number to call us and let us know of the spider he came to our house.

Hubby drove 1 1/2 hours to get the tarantula, just to find on arrival that it was dead. The shop people was so freaked out about the spider they didn't take notice if it was alive or not, they just contained it by placing a cardboard box over it.

So now the mystery is over for us, we was wondering where the tarantula had gone.  ?

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Name: lindalu • Date: 05/03/2008 17:44:05

BOOOOO....HOOOOOO!!!!!! NO ONE CARES ABOUT BAMBI !!!!

Can you imagine the looks on their face when they seen the size of the spider? LMAO!!! I would love to have been there! LOL!!!  =

Name: homemommichele • Date: 05/03/2008 18:50:59

Sorry hon, my sympathy is with the repair guys. You could not pay me enough to disassemble a chair and find that sucker!!  =

Name: ..RoSey.. • Date: 05/03/2008 19:16:32

i saw a tarantula in a cage at the Zoo a few weeks ago, all i can say is it was hairy and i was DISCUSTED. Yuck yuck yuck.  =

Name: Nicolaaa • Date: 05/03/2008 19:58:37

A relief you've found it...........but how terrible that you have lost a little pet.

Im not a spider fan....i cannot stand them and tend to cry on sight....(i hate admitting it as i sound like a wuss) but....pets are so special....im so attatched to my animals...

Is your daughter upset about it? how old is she?  =

Name: winnmom • Date: 05/03/2008 21:44:55

Sorry to hear Lindalu.........If it feels like any other pet ...then this must be hard for you......  =

Name: cjsims • Date: 05/03/2008 22:32:08

U BOUGHT YOUR KID A SPIDER??? WHATEVER TRIPS YOUR TRIGGER, BUT THAT WOULD CREEP ME OUT!! SENDS SHIVERS UP MY SPINE.  =

Name: lindalu • Date: 05/04/2008 00:10:28

Thanks guys, but she wasn't one of those pets that I found myself attached to in an emotional way. Don't get me wrong, I do feel terrible for what she must have gone through in the past weeks I don't wish agony on any living creature.

Cjsims, LOL!!! My daughter bought the spider herself, shes 22 years old.  =

Name: lindalu • Date: 05/04/2008 00:16:39

Nicola
My daughter is 22 years old. She is not upset like she would be if she lost her dog, not that the spider was any less alive then her dog. She is upset about the fact that we found her to late.  =

Name: bmes • Date: 05/04/2008 01:20:38

lmfao man!!! holy shit....that is the funniest thing...not because it is dead, which i'm sorry about btw....but can you imagine the reaction of those poor people finding a fkin' TARANTULA in the wheel chair!!!!????shit that's funny!!! i would have peed myself....lol.....

i just told my hubby the whole story of when you lost it, and he is almost sliding off the couch right now!!!!!!

ok so we've had a couple drinks so far, but it's still funny as hell regardless....  =

Name: briseis • Date: 05/04/2008 08:30:59

I'm so sorry you lost your pet spider. Any idea why she died? :( It's so sad to lose a pet, but at least you know what became of her. Would you ever keep another spider?  =

Name: FatallyYours • Date: 05/04/2008 09:05:35

glad you found it. sorry its dead. they could of atleast poked it. i love those things as pets. not creepy at all.  =

Name: lindalu • Date: 05/04/2008 10:26:59

Bmes~
I guess the wheel chair repair person who found her thought it was a mouse, when he realized it was a spider he threw a cardboard box over it and called the delivery guy. Thats when the delivery guy remembered me and my daughter telling him about the missing spider.

Briseis~
She didn't appear to be dehydrated or starve her abdomen was still pretty big, also not wrinkly, thus indicating that she didn't starve or dehydrate.

I do believe she died due to stress and or cold.

The wheel chair repair shop is not heated. Tarantulas are unable to regulate their own body temperatures so if they are exposed to cold temperatures for to long they become stressed and will die.

Although her abdomen looked good in size she showed signs that she was indeed stressed. Tarantulas have hair like fibers on their body when stressed they will rub them of with their hind legs. Her whole butt was free of theses hairs, she was just about bald!  =

Name: lindalu • Date: 05/04/2008 10:35:36

Nicola & FatallyYours

Even though she is dead I am glad we got her back. I was going out of my mind wondering what could have happened to her. I knew she was last seen on my daughters lap, myself and several others searched the whole wheel chair up and down with no signs of her. I was convinced the spider was roaming the house some where!

Well....It sure does make for a good talk with the wheel chair repair people. LOL!!!  =

Name: mother2five • Date: 05/08/2008 09:48:37

awwww  =

Name: Lizzi • Date: 05/08/2008 15:41:04

LOL the spider was feeling old and crawled into the wheelchair to finish off it's last days!!! EWWW I hate spiders!!!!!!!  =

Name: lindalu • Date: 05/08/2008 15:44:44

Lizzi how the heck are you?

The poor spider just went for a little walk in to the chair and ended up some where cold and unfamiliar. The poor guy!  =

Name: zoey9810 • Date: 05/08/2008 23:53:06

Those people must of freaked!! LOL I love Bugs, ive Tarantula baby sat before but i have never owned one, i dont think my hubby would let me have one lol, It sucks that yo guys had to drive so long to go get him, and then to find that he was dead.! :(  =