Around here September is tarantula month. You’d think it would be at the end of October, but they have a mind of their own. For those who are new to the blog, we have our own species of taratulas-the New River rust rump. We love them-even She loves them and nobody could have predicted that. They’re actually harmless to dogs and peeps and eat the things we don’t like. One year, one even made it into the kitchen somehow and was on the center island-I guess our cooking isn’t THAT bad. We ushered it outside where it could snack on the truly nasties like scorpions. This guy or gal (I can’t tell the gender of a tarantula and I imagine it only makes a difference to another tarantula) walked right up and said “Hi”. I guess he wanted to see the new saguaro arm.
We haven’t seen a scorpion in a while so the spiders must be doing their job.
kylascott 
Whew-woooooo, no tarantulas or scorpions here!
You’d love the spiders. The scorpions? Not so much.
And around this time of year, Crabby won’t leave the house in the evening hours, when the arachnids are most active. Me, I name them!
The only reason to stay in the house is to prevent yourself from accidentally stepping on one. We like them alive.
Hip, hip arrooooo for the tarantulas! We love spiders in this house. Not the webs that get on everything…but the spiders are okay. We usually have a couple up on the ceilings. Anything that gets rid of flies and mozzies are HER friends, so we understand about the scorpions.
Saw on the News that there’s a push to eat bugs…especially scorpions. Just an idea. Millions of tarantulas can’t be wrong.
XXXOOO Daisy, Bella & Roxy
Yep I saw it on the news also about eating bugs, that is how bad the economy is
~ use to be eat beef now it is eat bugs.
SWTS
Who wants to make a living running a scorpion farm? The time is now-get in on the ground floor. Not me.
Well it has hair on it’s back, why don’t you ask it the secret as to how to grow hair.
Sweet William The Scot
I did and it said I had to shed some years.
Our little hoomans are frightened of spiders but our Mummy isn’t too bothered either way ^_^
Nacho, Noah, Buddy & Basil
xxxx
Some hoomans keep them as pets-they’re harmless. I don’t think piggies would like them.
Oh yikes Kyla I was just off to bed, now’z mez neffer gonna sleep’z xx00xx
Mollie and Alfie
Relax-they love you!
Yeah, Ma says you can keep your big, hairy, scary SPIDERS!!! Holy crap!!! Nope. She don’t care….she don’t like em’, any of em’. She knows they do good, she doesn’t wanna see any of them!!! YIKESSSSSS!!! She says she’s gettin’ the willy’s now, she gotta go…..yuk. Give her a good ole’ fashion snake any day!!
Kisses,
Ruby ♥
It’s OK-calm down. I don’t think you have any of these where you live.
That is one HUGE spider, but he’s alright, takin’ care of the bugs!
Bad bugs at that. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
Okay, that would scare me to pieces. I know people have them as pets, but I just couldn’t pull that off.
Have a fabulous day. 🙂
That’s OK. Just avoid them rather than killing them.
AndI thought we had some strange creepy crawlies here…we do have the Golden Silk spiders that get pretty big but nothing like this beastie…Very impressive and just a little bit scary…you’re a brave one Kyla
A terrier doesn’t back down, you wouldn’t either.
Just a friendly guy huh??? We have never seen those round here!!
wags
jazzi
That was probably a female-females live to be about 25 and males only 5.
Spiders and Snakes Oh My!!! You must be a brave pupper.
Aroo to you,
Sully
I have a deal with them-they leave me alone and I leave them alone. Works great.
oh. not me. I think I’d rather have your tarantulas than my black widows, though. The peep found some in two places at my house. yikes.
So, two questions: where’d you get that nice leash with the tape instead of the cord? The peeps have been looking for one for the longest time (since They left the good one with the tape on top of the car and drove off during one of Our trips to the beach). And two, is that astroturf I see underfoot? I think I remember you’ve got astroturf at your place.
Cool!
AroOO, Stuart
Yes, that’s astroturf. Now there’s a product called K-9 grass (K9Grass.com) which supposedly doesn’t do what this does-get really hot and unusable in a heat wave. I haven’t personally tested it in Arizona.
I’ll get back to you on the tape. It’s been almost 11 years and the thing has performed flawlessly. It was either at Petco or Petsmart (I love those places-there’s dog food spilled on the floor in places the big dogs can’t get to). I think they have some online. If you ‘re still stuck, we go by Petcos and Petsmarts routinely and can get one for you.
Hmm, I had mistakenly thought all tarantulas are dangerous to humans! We don’t have them around here, so I am largely ignorant about this topic. But glad they are safe for you 🙂 Congratulations on the video 😀
They just appear dangerous. The little brown ones are the ones to watch but we haven’t seen those recently.
Oh my dog…mom is NOT a fan of spiders butt she says that if you say they are harmless, she believes you.
Wally & Sammy
He can pick them up and let them crawl on his arm-no problem except for the tickling from the feet.
Wow that’s incredible. Daddy used to have a tarantula, but it committed suicide on the heatpad lol