May I Buy You a Drink?

[Ariel]

Not to be a jerk, but, uh...it's not like we're talking about a Brazilian wandering spider (would just take a bit longer to plan and execute in order to avert possible premature death--still quite doable ). Personally, the prospect of getting tagged by a new world T wouldn't phase me.

I was more worried of her getting out acctually. :/ Yeah, I certainly don't want to be bitten, but considering the menagerie of animals in my house, plus my dad and sister who are arachnophobic, I would certainly go to any length to keep my most defensive T from escaping.

I mean, I don't want ANY of my Ts to escape, but the chances are of someone getting bit by my B. smithi if he got out are much less then if my P. camb got out.

 

[the nature boy]

I'll lay off, lol (not that it wouldn't have been simple to devise a plan to cup her without an escape...)

 

[CAK]

Here is a couple I caught from me!

My B.smithi - Harlie

My P.cambridgei - Olive

Joe - CAK

 

[killy]

River my P. cambridgei has a habit of burrying her waterdish and the last time (a couple of weeks ago) she'd chase me out of her enclosure if I tried to get it, she finally let me today and she drank from it for like 15 minutes!

Ariel, I hope that people are catching the humor in your post - your hyperbolic image of a grown adult being chased out of an enclosure by a spider is, I think, hilarious, and emblematic of the strange relationship we have with these little critters. In fact, this could be the subject of a whole new thread.

I can certainly relate - I call my vagans "Diablo" for a reason - he's the spawn of the devil! To quote the song, he's "meaner than a junk-yard dog." For example, when I drip-fill his water dish, he raises up in a strike pose so exaggerated it's like he's walking on stilts - it's laugh-out-loud funny. But he also scares the living daylights out of me. We're talking a 2-inch tarantula here, versus a 6-foot tall hunk-of-human, but I fear him more than I fear a snarling pitbull! (I'm exaggerating here folks ... sort of ..)

Does anybody remember the scene from Annie Hall where Annie calls Woody Allen to come to her apartment to kill a spider she found in the bathroom? He laughs at her, but comes to her rescue - we see him disappear into the bathroom with a broom - we then hear what sounds like an all-out brawl - Woody comes out looking shell-shocked and gasps, "There's a spider the size of a BUICK in there !!!!!"

You and Woody and I would get along fine!

Ariel, keep regaling us with your riotously funny posts please ... even if it's just funny to you and me (and Woody Allen) !!!

 

[Ariel]

Ariel, I hope that people are catching the humor in your post - your hyperbolic image of a grown adult being chased out of an enclosure by a spider is, I think, hilarious, and emblematic of the strange relationship we have with these little critters. In fact, this could be the subject of a whole new thread.

I can certainly relate - I call my vagans "Diablo" for a reason - he's the spawn of the devil! To quote the song, he's "meaner than a junk-yard dog." For example, when I drip-fill his water dish, he raises up in a strike pose so exaggerated it's like he's walking on stilts - it's laugh-out-loud funny. But he also scares the living daylights out of me. We're talking a 2-inch tarantula here, versus a 6-foot tall hunk-of-human, but I fear him more than I fear a snarling pitbull! (I'm exaggerating here folks ... sort of ..)

Does anybody remember the scene from Annie Hall where Annie calls Woody Allen to come to her apartment to kill a spider she found in the bathroom? He laughs at her, but comes to her rescue - we see him disappear into the bathroom with a broom - we then hear what sounds like an all-out brawl - Woody comes out looking shell-shocked and gasps, "There's a spider the size of a BUICK in there !!!!!"

You and Woody and I would get along fine!

Ariel, keep regaling us with your riotously funny posts please ... even if it's just funny to you and me (and Woody Allen) !!!

Well at least someone understands. It was suppose to be humerous. She is quite evil though. and I would be lying if I said I didn't jump when ever she attacks my tongs.

I totally understand about the B. vagans! My 4" girl is mean! Or well...she has her mood swings, she used to be very nice and handleable but after she molted she started with these crazy mood swings, she always attacks the waterdish when I refill it and if I'm trying to move her to get at a bolus or something she does have a tendancy to strike the tongs, but other times she's just "whatever".

It is true that it did take me a while to get to her waterdish (between a week and two weeks I don't really know) but it wasn't just that she would strike at me, she would lay ON TOP of the burried waterdish, she even used it in the construction of her hide. I was in the process of getting a new waterdish to just place on top of the buried one when she undug it and let me take it out.

Had she never done this I would have either put a new waterdish in her enclosure or removed her to get it out. I'm planning on transfering her into an adult enclosure soon anyways. (mostly in hopes that it will stop this water burrying nonsense) When she finished drinking from it, she buried it again...

 

[VESPidA]

Cool shots everybody (if a pun can be extracted from that, so be it ...)

Here's my contribution to the catalog. My vagans drinks like a fish - on the sly - but one day I caught him doing the ole "bottoms up" en flagrant delit ...
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nice... that looks like a freshly molted bum:razz: i'm waiting and waiting on mine... but a watched t never molts i suppose

 

[Ryujia]

I really can't help but laugh at 95% of these pictures. They just look so funny when they take a drink! Face down, butt up, legs in every direction.

It's amazingly adorable though~

 

[Draychen]

I caught a couple last night too!

Sandy

Lilith

 

[killy]

nice... that looks like a freshly molted bum:razz: i'm waiting and waiting on mine... but a watched t never molts i suppose

Interesting observation, HokiePokie! His last molt was 10-29-2009, and I took these shots on 11-14-2009. :clap: And believe it or not, of my vast collection of 7 Ts, Diablo is the ONLY one I've seen molt. :?

 

[Redneck]

Sonora..

My 4'' female B. smithi.. She was a little thristy..

Side Shot..

 

[VESPidA]

that is just precious, tommy! love this thread...

 

[curiousme]

So, the tarantula that caused this thread has been caught drinking again! The pics aren't quite as good this time, but she looks adorable anyway!

 

[sharpfang]

I am Thirsty Now - Good shots Everyone!

Wow, this is so beautiful, I loaded it as my computer desktop background - I hope you don't mind ....

I am Honored :razz:

Now I have to upgrade all my tarantulas setup with the fountain of youth :drool: tnx for sharing :worship:

She is sitting in it this Morning....Silly LP's

Cool shots everybody (if a pun can be extracted from that, so be it ...)

Here's my contribution to the catalog. My vagans drinks like a fish - on the sly - but one day I caught him doing the ole "bottoms up" en flagrant delit ...
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Gulp, gulp, Gulp!!! Does he drink like a Killie-Fish ???

 

[killy]

Gulp, gulp, Gulp!!! Does he drink like a Killie-Fish ???

If he drank like a Killy-fish, he'd be face-down in a Margarita, blended, no salt ...

 

[Hobo]

eating water....
a regular chip off the 'ol block, this one is!

 

[sharpfang]

My favorite Drink!

If he drank like a Killy-fish, he'd be face-down in a Margarita, blended, no salt ...

Hobo's is Ripple - Tee-Hee Hey Hobo.....I like the Smithi :razz: - J

 

[BrynWilliams]

My usually light phobic AF P formosa came charging out to drink off her webbing when I was misting down her enclosure - I'm hopeful of a moult soon so I can get to finding her a bf

 

[BrynWilliams]

A avic carrying a droplet around

 

[jbm150]

I can't believe I hadn't checked this thread since the original P. cambridgei shot. I love drinking T pics. Here's a coupla mine to add to the thread:

Denali, my cambridgei

Aryana, regalis, on her tip toes

 

[Spidercrazy]

my new G. rosea

this one has horrible quality but you can see the fangs in the water