Last night my mother brought home a tarantula.
As funny as that sounds, it’s totally true. We keep horses up at a ranch and while she was feeding them, this spider raced across the yard, and she caught it, brought it home in a bucket, and it now has a tiny plastic carrier with a water bowl and food. I think this is one of the stupidest things to ever do. I like spiders, not up close, but I think they’re interesting. I’d study them. My argument on how stupid this is is the pet aspect of this. There are certain things you just don’t want, or shouldn’t HAVE, as pets. These include the following:
- Tarantula or any kind of big spider
- Python or any kind of large snake
- That nasty bird from australia called the “Cassowary”, seriously, do your own research
I was once told of a spider that was called a Hobo spider. This spider would be born underground, come out and make it’s way into your home because it’d have no home, hence it’s name. The perfect place for it to mate would be in a dark area, such as say…your bedsheets. It mates in your bed, and bites you while you sleep. It has a toxic venom that then makes you hallucinate until you either get help, or die. This is an example of a pet you don’t want. I also heard a story of a guy who had a large python. His friend would come over and not know where it is. He would never want to sit down in the apartment, because of the fact that he didn’t know where this snake was. It’s like those people who insist on going to Africa to help the endangered species. Like, lions.
Those things that EAT you.
That’s a GOOOOD idea. However, the best story has to be Gary Larson’s, of the cartoon “The Far Side”. Cartoonist Gary Larson, of The Far Side, also had a close call with a Burmese python he had raised from a baby. According to Larson he realized he was “living with a gigantic predator with a very small brain” one day when it tried to do him in.
So there we go. Spiders, Snakes, and f*cked up australian birds, oh my. If you want to add pets to the list of “sh*t you shouldn’t live with”, including parents, leave it in the comments.
m@rk
