Originally posted by Pam
When it comes to cleaning up the dead body I get a ton of tissues in my hand and even then I am afraid it will come back to life and start to crawl on me.

You are brave to take those pictures while it was still alive. I would have been shaking so bad that they would have been all blurry. Where where Chester and Millie when all of this excitement was going on?
LOL!!! Pam, you're so right. I had no less than 4 paper towels folder over once that I picked him up with.

I actually took 6 pictures, and the other 4 were blurry!

Fortunately, the kids were outside during the whole thing. Millie came in just after I killed it (could've been my blood curdling scream that brought her in!) and I was terrified that she might try to eat it while I went for paper towels. I was afraid to pick her up, she would throw my back out.

This is the SECOND one of this size that I've seen this year.

Sorry it freaked you out, Laura.

I'm kind of upset that I had to kill it. I've been wanting a tarantula and I know that I can't have one until I can stop killing it's relatives.