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rachiepotatoe
Hatchling
United Kingdom
393 Posts |
 Posted - 15/09/2010 : 10:36:40
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Anyone else terrified by spiders? 
Last night I was peacefully watching Zack and Miri (om nom seth rogen)
and all of a sudden out comes a hairy beast of a spider, just sitting in the corner of my room waiting to get me.
So I sit on my bed watching it's every move too afraid to sleep or even blink!
THEN , BAM! ANOTHER one came running out my wardrobe Dx!!! it was the biggest , most evil horrible looking spider I have ever seen.
So, I flew out of my room and had to sleep down stairs. (and cried a little from shock )fml.
I'm too scared to even squash them/throw them outside
Anyone got any tips of getting spiders out? Someone once told me to put conkers in the corners of your room to stop them coming in...lmao
I was meant to go to phobia classes, but I was too scared |
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herriotfan
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5853 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 10:56:21
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OMG I would have done exactly the same as you. I really don't like them. How the hell can anybody watch two at once, cunning little blighters 
Never heard of conkers in the corner before. I've heard of strong hairspray making their leg hairs stiff so they can't run but never been tried it. I don't like them but I'd rather have them put outside than be really unkind to them.
I just wish they would stay outside!!! |
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Granddaughter (Eva)
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1.0.0 Hognose (Hudson)
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0.1.0 Senegal Parrot (Peanut)
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Figs
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3319 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 11:03:22
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Bleh!
Spiders are the worst 
I was feeding my baby leopard gecko last night and a spider ran out of the cricket box and up my arm!
I freaked out and dropped the box (yep, crickets everywhere!!) and ran away
I'd feel mean squishing it so when i found it sitting on top of Dingers viv (after a good shower of course) i got the big massive tongs and fed it to the gecko! TAKE THAT, SPIDER!
Short of getting a cat or making sure every single window, door, crack or gap is closed or covered with a bug net i havent got a clue how to keep them away.
Maybe a sign?
"Spiders not welcome" |
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rachiepotatoe
Hatchling
United Kingdom
393 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 11:46:08
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I've sprayed one with body spray before...It sort of 'danced' but then it ran and I never saw it again :| and it freaked me out too much so I wont be doing that again
Haha yeah I think having a cat is the best option, but I'm not allowed one!
*lol at feeding it to the gecko* :D
I always have nightmares about spiders being in doyles tank and nesting in his leaves!! |
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miss_mystra
Hatchling
United Kingdom
127 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 11:48:50
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awww, i feel the same way about slugs...except having a phobia of slugs is silly it's not like they can jump on you!! Ironically i love snails and always rescue them off the path so no-one treads on them (worst feeling in the world when you accidently step on one in the dark :( that *crunch* argh!)
Weirdly tho, my mum always taught me it was good luck to have a 'house spider'...whether she said that so i wouldn't grow up with a phobia i don't know, but i always end up naming them and saying hello!! |
0.0.2 Corn Snakes - Betty (Anery) and Sanchez (Carolina)
1.0.0 - Royal Python - Chancho
Location: SE London |
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rachiepotatoe
Hatchling
United Kingdom
393 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 11:53:12
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aww I'm like that with snails too, I spent alot of my childhood rescuing snails and making snail/worm houses with chinese takeaway boxes and sheets of pasta....don't ask lmao.
See when I was little I loved spiders, I had a house spider who was named henry, and I used to play with him wheneve I found him, but now, GOD NO.
I think I became scared after running through a huge web in my nans garden T_T |
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clintham
Hatchling
United Kingdom
219 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 12:01:00
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im glad im not the only person that loves snakes but hates spiders!
my black lab is chief spider catcher. i use a newspaper to brush spiders from the walls/celing to the floor then the dog does the rest! |
 
Cornsnakes 1.0.0 Cassius, Carolina, CB-22/07/10
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Location Lincoln UK
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miss_mystra
Hatchling
United Kingdom
127 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 12:11:44
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Originally posted by rachiepotatoe
aww I'm like that with snails too, I spent alot of my childhood rescuing snails and making snail/worm houses with chinese takeaway boxes and sheets of pasta....don't ask lmao.
hahaha me too!! I was also really obsessed with woodlice XD Also one afternoon back in the day i was walking home from school and there were ladybirds EVERYWHERE!! never seen so many..i kept picking them up off the floor and putting them in a container i had on me...then i opened the container in my room to check on them and they all flew out...oooops!! |
0.0.2 Corn Snakes - Betty (Anery) and Sanchez (Carolina)
1.0.0 - Royal Python - Chancho
Location: SE London |
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rachiepotatoe
Hatchling
United Kingdom
393 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 12:37:04
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Originally posted by clintham
im glad im not the only person that loves snakes but hates spiders!
my black lab is chief spider catcher. i use a newspaper to brush spiders from the walls/celing to the floor then the dog does the rest!
I had a staffy useful for this! but sadly he died, leaving me heart broken and spider infested!
Lol miss mystra, bet you had ladybird poo everywhere!!
I brought an ant farm thing once but I could never form a proper colony
Gosh I just realised how obsessed with bugs I was, haha did you ever have sea monkeys? I also used to have these trillobyte things, and they were AWESOME, they looked like helmet crabs/massive sea monkeys and they did somersaults in the water!! They stunk though so i had to flush them... |
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Posted - 15/09/2010 : 12:43:48
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i am totally freaked out by spiders too!!!! can't stand them, i suck mine up the hoover if I'm on my own. lol
otherwise i get hubby to try and get them, although he isn't keen on them either and dropped one of the ceiling the other night in my son's room, he refused to sleep in there for a week...lol thinks he gets it from me!! |
1.0.0 Amel, Steve
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FiestaSTLou
Yearling
United Kingdom
556 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 12:54:59
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| cant stand them, if i see one i will freeze up, and if it isnt out my site within a few seconds i will be sick... yes id say im very scared of them... its sad really, i can be around a tarantula or chile rose at a zoo ect.. wouldnt touch it mind u but i can bare being near it as i know its not gna pounce on me.. but anywhere else thats it im off in a panic! |
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rachiepotatoe
Hatchling
United Kingdom
393 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 13:20:24
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Mom2mysononly, I can't even suck them up the vac! I once killed one with an argos catalogue, I left it for a week dead because I didn't have the courage to hoover it, when I did i felt it zoom up and i threw the sucker bit across the room and cringed for abit an hour!
FiestaSTlou I knoow what you mean about turantulas, Its okay when they're behind glass! But when they marching along your walls it's a different story D: haha |
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Posted - 15/09/2010 : 14:10:34
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Originally posted by rachiepotatoe
Mom2mysononly, I can't even suck them up the vac! I once killed one with an argos catalogue, I left it for a week dead because I didn't have the courage to hoover it, when I did i felt it zoom up and i threw the sucker bit across the room and cringed for abit an hour
PMSL!!! I JUST SPAT COFFEE ACROSS THE COMPUTER WHEN I READ THAT!!
i know i shouldn't laugh but the picture just shot into my head! sorry. |
1.0.0 Amel, Steve
WISH LIST: blue tongue skink. |
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herriotfan
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5853 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 14:19:48
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quote:
Originally posted by mom2mysononly
quote:
Originally posted by rachiepotatoe
Mom2mysononly, I can't even suck them up the vac! I once killed one with an argos catalogue, I left it for a week dead because I didn't have the courage to hoover it, when I did i felt it zoom up and i threw the sucker bit across the room and cringed for abit an hour
PMSL!!! I JUST SPAT COFFEE ACROSS THE COMPUTER WHEN I READ THAT!!
i know i shouldn't laugh but the picture just shot into my head! sorry.
SNAP!!!!!  |
Husband....Very Understanding!!! (Phil)
Son & Daughter (Kevin & Carol)
Granddaughter (Eva)
3.4.0 Cornsnakes Amel (Sidney) Caramel Stripe (Sultan) Amber (Cleo) Carolina (Phoebe) Anery Motley Stripe (Penny) Snow (Lily) Caramel (Holmes)
1.2.0 Royal Pythons(Peeps, Pandora & Pepsi)
1.0.0 Hognose (Hudson)
2.1.0 Dogs (Dillon, Alfie, Ellie)
0.1.0 Senegal Parrot (Peanut)
1.1.0 Bearded Dragons (Bonnie & Clyde)
1.0.0 Crested Geckos (Echo)
0.2.1 Hermanns Tortoises (Ebbie, Rosie & Twiglet)
0.1.0 Guinea Pig (Dolly-Pipsqueak)
0.1.9 Tarantulas (Poppy, Gypsy, Bumble, Insey Winsey, Sonic, Cookie, Raven, Fudge, Titch & Sox)
??? Foster animals
Location: Near Saffron Walden, Essex
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josh9961
Hatchling
United Kingdom
381 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 15:07:21
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| I had a house spider named Henry, I knew it was him as he only had seven legs. He survived two window drops, a shower and a flushing. H sparked my phobia when awoke to Henry on my chest. 0.O |
2.3 Corn Snakes
0.1 Bci
1.0 Spur thighed Tortoise
0.0.15 Stick insects
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rachiepotatoe
Hatchling
United Kingdom
393 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 16:08:28
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Originally posted by herriotfan
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Originally posted by mom2mysononly
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Originally posted by rachiepotatoe
Mom2mysononly, I can't even suck them up the vac! I once killed one with an argos catalogue, I left it for a week dead because I didn't have the courage to hoover it, when I did i felt it zoom up and i threw the sucker bit across the room and cringed for abit an hour
PMSL!!! I JUST SPAT COFFEE ACROSS THE COMPUTER WHEN I READ THAT!!
i know i shouldn't laugh but the picture just shot into my head! sorry.
SNAP!!!!!
Lmao I think if I had heard someone else do this i'd be laughing too. I was traumatised!!! |
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drchino
Yearling
United Kingdom
660 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 17:22:34
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I awoke the other week to find this guy creeping over towards my bedroom! I'm not too fussed about spiders though so I caught him in a pint glass to get some pics and then threw him out the window.
If you think he's big, you should have seen the golden orb that I nearly walked into in Thailand! The picture makes him look smaller but he actually was as big as my head!
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0.1.0 Izzy - Amber Motley Corn
0.2.0 White rats - Rose and Myra
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rachiepotatoe
Hatchling
United Kingdom
393 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 18:13:13
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I think...I just crapped myself.
The only thing stopping from going places like that are the spiders D; I'd love to go to Australia, but with those bleeders waiting under every bush and toilet seat...HELL.NO.
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gregDT
Egg
United Kingdom
84 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 19:02:38
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I think there is a certain irony with us all talking about animal phobias on a Snake Enthusiast forum. Half the world is terrified of our passion. I suppose people who keep arachnids consider fear of spiders as irrational and odd as we do a fear of snakes.
That being said I'm not exactly a fan of creepy crawlies either  |
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rachiepotatoe
Hatchling
United Kingdom
393 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 19:28:57
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gregDT I have to agree! When people hear you're scared of spiders but own a snake they're like...what?...
I've just been debating with my boyfriend ''would a snake eat a spider?!?'
I said no, he said yes!
so...would they? :O |
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CSN
Hatchling
United Kingdom
205 Posts |
Posted - 15/09/2010 : 19:46:52
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| there is not enough meat ona spider |
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ARACHNOPHOBIA! D:
