Tarantula Time!

There were A LOT of big spiders while we were down there. Mitzi and Dan live a little ways out of town and have a big log cabin type home. The first day I got there Dan was saying how these Tarantulas are all over outside. I didn't believe him until about 30 minutes later he comes walking in the house with this thing on his back. After scaring a few of us Jordan wanted to hold it, I would not touch it at all. Dan then proceeded to tell this story about when he was holding one and it bit him on his finger so he started flailing his arms and smacking the spider against his leg and it wouldn't come off. It came off eventually and he called poison control they said it was just like a bad bee sting and not to worry too much.

Dustin, Lexi, Matt, Braden, and I all found another Tarantula the next day and we caught it, we wanted to see the fangs on these things because we didn't believe Dan and his story. We put it in a little bug container thing and Dustin poked it with a stick until its "FANGS" came out... YEASH!!! They are HUGE! Not only did the fangs come out but some goopey red stuff came out too... Gives me the heeebeees just remembering it. We got Nate and Kelly down to look at it and I poked it with a stick and it's fangs went through the stick and held it there until it retracted them.... Kelly was a little squeamish when Matt came running over with something in his hands saying OPEN THE CAGE! OPEN IT!.... He kinda threw it out of his hands and it was a pine cone, Kelly thought it was a spider. Matt is such a geek sometimes. So now we believe Dans story and know that Tarantulas do bite. We ended up with two of them in our little cage, so we put a grasshopper and a cricket in there with them for a little snack if they wanted it, they didn't. We wanted to watch them eat 'em, we left them in there over night to see what they would do but they didn't do anything so I think Braden let them all go. Until next time.... I'll leave you with a nicer picture just so your stomach will stop churning...