# My spider buddy drowned **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908 "2004-06-06T04:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/1 "2004-06-06T04:05:59Z")
She’d been hopping around the office all week, shortly after I blundered across her picture on the web: [![](https://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/phidippus_aud2.jpg) ](https://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/phidippus_aud2.jpg) Friday she was on my desk and was trying to get into the PC box. Saturday I found her at the bottom of the killifish aquarium. Damn, she was cute. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/2 "2004-06-06T04:40:18Z")
Is that a wolf spider? Too bad she got drowned. Spiders are a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/3 "2004-06-06T04:46:36Z")
Phidippus audax, the Daring Jumping Spider. [http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/daring\_jumping\_spider.htm](http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/daring_jumping_spider.htm) Yeah. I was hoping she would eat some of the roaches. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/4 "2004-06-06T05:33:11Z")
Gaaa! Ya know, would it have killed you to label that link _ **"WARNING: REALLY EFFING CREEPY-ASS IMAGE - NIGHTMARES TO FOLLOW** _"?? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/5 "2004-06-06T05:34:26Z")
Oh…and I’m sorry to hear about your loss. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/6 "2004-06-06T05:42:58Z")
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Big spider face! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! :eek: Don’t DO that!!! _pant_ I’m sorry she died. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/7 "2004-06-06T12:05:16Z")
That spider is creepy! But erm… may she R.I.P ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/8 "2004-06-06T12:38:11Z")
OHH that is a very impressive spider. A very large (though not so hairy) spider has come to live behind the cold tap in our bath/shower. Fortunately we don’t use the bath so we don’t have to go near the tap but a week ago he fell in the bath and I only noticed after the shower was on. I had two options a) pretend I didn’t see him and hope he went down the drain (he couldn’t climb up the slippery bath wall…and he was really TRYING) or b) turn off the shower and rescue him. I am easily guilted and his sorry attempts to climb up the wet bath wall made me take option b. I turned the shower off, wrapped myself in a towel and yelled to the child to bring me a piece of paper. I caught mr/mrs spider in the paper, chucked him/her out the window and finished my shower. The next morning it was back behind the tap! Some spiders show no gratitude. If he/she falls in the bath again I will consider the drain option. For now I just keep an eye on him/her as I scrub. ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/9 "2004-06-06T16:42:10Z")
I’m not much of a spider lover, however, I must admit that I like those little jumping spiders. I don’t know what it is about them…they seem so intelligent and interested in what’s going on around them. I had one once that sat on the edge of the aquarium and watched me do a water change. I even rescued her/him _bare-handed_ when she/he nearly became fish food! There’s just something cute about them. I’m sorry your little jumping-spider buddy died. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GopherGod72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@GopherGod72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GopherGod72)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/10 "2004-06-06T17:27:02Z")
Good GOD man… you should have crushed that thing right off!! I’m sure it was plotting to kill you anyway! ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/11 "2004-06-06T17:28:16Z")
Okay, so click on the link to the darling spider. Move your head to the left. Move your head to the right. _The eyes follow you wherever you go._ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![GopherGod72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@GopherGod72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GopherGod72)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/12 "2004-06-06T17:28:27Z")
oh yeah… and rest in pieces… or something. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/13 "2004-06-06T18:49:16Z")
Combining the worst of both worlds… clowns and spiders. [:eek:](http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/bemf/microangela/mjspidero.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/14 "2004-08-31T03:02:14Z")
PunditLisa: You know, you’re right about the eyes. All eight of them. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/15 "2004-08-31T03:10:58Z")
You know, normally, I like spiders. It’s just that recently I had a dream where my room was infested with Cthulian spiders that had _tentacles_ instead of legs. Big, plump, endlessly moving tentacles. Brown Recluse Tentacled Spiders. Lately, I’ve been a little squeamish about spiders. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/16 "2004-08-31T03:45:33Z")
[Would you prefer a picture of a nice, fluffy dog then?](http://homepage.mac.com/mactechg4/.Pictures/Elvira.jpg) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/17 "2004-08-31T04:03:57Z")
Damnit!! Stop that!! ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/18 "2004-08-31T05:20:02Z")
I’m not a spider fan. I respect them for what they do for a living, i.e. keep the bug population down by eating them. (I could never do that. The world would be quickly overrun with bugs if it was my job to eat them.) But I don’t like them. I don’t squish 'em if I find them outside. But if they’re in my space it’s a different story. Smoosh city. And if it’s one of the really fast moving kind with the dark legs, the smoosh is usually immediately preceded by a loud “EEEEK!!” About two weeks ago I found a pair of house spiders catching bugs behind the soap dispenser in the bathroom. There’s a nightlight there; it attracts anything buzzing around the house after everyone goes to bed. These two were making out like bandits. I couldn’t help but admire their ability to recognize prime real estate. I left them unsquished for a week. Then, when I couldn’t put off cleaning the sink any longer, I scooped them up in a bathroom cup and set them outside near the porch light. I figured two resourceful arachnids such as themselves could find profitable new locations. Haven’t heard from them since. That’s the closest I’ve ever come to making a spider a pet. I kind of miss them. But if either of them had set a foot outside of that cup, it would have been goodbye Charlotte. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/19 "2004-08-31T13:36:32Z")
Lord, both of those spiders look like they could take a napalm strike and keep coming. And this is why, my fellow Americans, I am _for_ increased anti-spider defense funding, and _against_ letting horrific and disgusting catastrophes of God’s creation hunt us and drain our precious bodily fluids in our sleep. My esteemed opponent, on the other hand, is a _spider lover_! Is that the kind of person you want defending your children? Watching over the most fragile, the most vulnerable of our society? I think not. Thank you, and God bless America. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-spider-buddy-drowned/248908/20 "2004-08-31T14:25:09Z")
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