[TatumsMom]

Okay, so I was just posting a reply to the "Butterflies" thread and didn't want to ruin it with tarantula talk but....

Anyone else have those boogers where they live? My daughter ran into the house last night hollering about a tarantula in the yard and that it was crawling on one of the cats! She said Patches was laying in the grass sunning herself and this tarantula was crawling across her face. The poor baby (the cat) jumped up pretty quick when my daughter hollered at her. So I took a jar outside to capture it to get a closer look. They're pretty creepy looking but for the most part... harmless. I'm just not crazy about them running around in my yard! Last summer my other daughter was playing ball with her grandma in the yard and one crawled UP her leg!! EEWWW! But yes, my darling husband took the poor creature way out into the pasture and released it. He told the girls that he had a long talk with "Freddie" and told him he better not come back in the yard and scare the poor kitty and his girls. Then he said he broke two legs and told him if he came back he would break three more. He was kidding but it was funny the way he told the story. We really do value the "good bugs" we have out in the country. If it weren't for those, we'd be overtaken by the "bad bugs" BUT tarantulas are still creepy!!