Trying my best to help a spider out of some paint, I ended up causing it more harm than good. I managed to free it from the paint, unfortuantly half of its legs didn't make it. A sudden cold shiver like feeling went through me and I felt really guilty and depressed.

I get the same feeling when I accidentally step on a snail in the dark, or something. Im just a menace to my fellow creatures. Most people don't have problems when it comes to killing the small creatures, I dunno why I do. Thank god the poor spider couldnt scream, and thank god it wasnt something bigger like a panda, cos that would have really upset me.

Does anyone else feel guilty when they injure or kill a spider?

Spiders = ok, usefull, eat flies etc.

Snails = waste of space, French have the best idea

I don't kill spiders, but I have no problem catapulting snails over the garden fence.

It would depend on how big and menacing it was.. I usually tend to throw them out if I can, but sometimes they are just asking for the yellow pages for instance if they are too big to fit in the glass :bigsmile:

I once flicked a fly into an extractor fan and watched it whizz around for abit before being shot out the other end . . . . . .


Made me laugh anyway.:D

Originally posted by thestruggle
thank god it wasnt something bigger like a panda, cos that would have really upset me.

How big is the tin of paint?!?!

spiders legs grow back, apparently.

Originally posted by thestruggle
Trying my best to help a spider out of some paint, I ended up causing it more harm than good. I managed to free it from the paint, unfortuantly half of its legs didn't make it. A sudden cold shiver like feeling went through me and I felt really guilty and depressed.

I get the same feeling when I accidentally step on a snail in the dark, or something. Im just a menace to my fellow creatures. Most people don't have problems when it comes to killing the small creatures, I dunno why I do. Thank god the poor spider couldnt scream, and thank god it wasnt something bigger like a panda, cos that would have really upset me.

Does anyone else feel guilty when they injure or kill a spider?

I like spiders and would not kill one intentionally, as they are useful predators around the house. They are not interested in your food and kill things that are. They don't make a noise, don't smell and don't buzz round your face or bite you. Also, all British spiders are completely harmless. They are more scared of you than vice versa. The ones you see scurrying about are usually males looking for a mate. You will never get rid of them from a house, however clean it is. Having said this, I don't feel guilty if I accidentally kill one.

Originally posted by nick2
Spiders = ok, usefull, eat flies etc.

Snails = waste of space, French have the best idea

I don't kill spiders, but I have no problem catapulting snails over the garden fence. I crush snails with my foot - :)

Having said that I can't see any reason why something as scary and generaly horrible as funnel web spides exist.

http://spinnen-forum.de/artikel/Image1.jpg

Spiders are scary and i WILL kill them. I do feel bad when killing them but it has to be done, along with moths, as they have no point in life but to scare the livng s**t out of me.

The first night my sister met my bofriend we were sat in her living room having a glass of wine when a moth flew in and straight down her top, she just jumped up whipped her blouse off, she had nothing on underneath, she then ran topless round the living room screaming hystericaly.

I could have died.

I like to feed spiders with a nice blue bottle or wasp, there is currently a web in our porch and if i get the chance I catch said blue bottle in a glass and then let it out so it flies straight into the spiders web then watch the spider go to work. Facinating.

yeah crush snails there horrible , spiders are ok though good use:) oh moths too there horrible as well, just fly round you and annoy you, when you hit 1 it just goes to dust!!

Originally posted by honeyplanet
for instance if they are too big to fit in the glass :bigsmile:


You live near a nuclear power station?:hihi:

Originally posted by nick2
The first night my sister met my bofriend we were sat in her living room having a glass of wine when a moth flew in and straight down her top, she just jumped up whipped her blouse off, she had nothing on underneath, she then ran topless round the living room screaming hystericaly.

I could have died.


ha ha ha ha haha:hihi: :thumbsup:

Thats funny:D

Originally posted by thestruggle
Trying my best to help a spider out of some paint, I ended up causing it more harm than good. I managed to free it from the paint, unfortuantly half of its legs didn't make it...

Thank god the poor spider couldnt scream, and thank god it wasnt something bigger like a panda, cos that would have really upset me...

If it had been a Panda, you might have had more trouble pulling it out of that paint.

How big would the paint pot have to be for a Panda to get stuck in it anyway?

You could maybe entice it out with some Bamboo!

I cannot cope with slugs - shich are just homeless snails (*joke)

Spiders are not a problem and in Britain tend to be harmless. There are lots of them so I am sure the odd handful will not be missed.

Question is - where does cruelty come into play? Are you one of those folk who pull the legs off one side of the spider to see if it runs round and round in circles?

Feel guilty killing one? I would rather not but accidents happen. Just try to make the death quick rather than seeing how long a spider can survive in a glass of turps or paint stripper.

Dragon

Originally posted by thestruggle
TThank god the poor spider couldnt scream, and thank god it wasnt something bigger like a panda, cos that would have really upset me.

Having kept, bred and traded a large variety of Tarantulas I find it almost impossible to kill spiders and I will do my best to keep them alive.
I would however have no problems in completely eliminating the entire worlds "supply" of Pandas. Darwin would be turning in his grave at the ridiculous lengths man has gone to in order to preserve this laughable bear. What do panda bears have that dinosaurs lack? An utter indifference to their own wellbeing.

I accidentally sucked a spider up in the dyson a bit back, don't ask me how it survived but it quite happily entertained itself trundling round the see thru doofus until I got it outside.
Somehow I don't care to repeat the experience in case it was a fluke

Dead spiders are even ickier than live :gag:

Originally posted by nick2

I don't kill spiders, but I have no problem catapulting snails over the garden fence.

So that's where the snails in my garden keep coming from is it? I detest the creatures, so knock it off! :nono: :hihi:

Originally posted by Nathen
spiders legs grow back, apparently.
nah.

Indeed, the only animal I know of whose limbs grow back is the starfish.

Originally posted by RichD
Indeed, the only animal I know of whose limbs grow back is the starfish.

and salamanders
and some lizards
and octopusses (octopi ?)
and newts