Pendlewitch Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 I'm not saying I would like to find one but have to say it's one impressive beasty! R.I.P. spider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudi Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 My brother loves spiders - he keeps them (properly) and is happy handling them. I think he's nuts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murtle Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 I don't think so. At many zoos you can see animals that have been seized from animal traffickers, particularly reptiles. Many trafficked species are horrifically endangered : it would be unthinkable for them to be killed purely because they had been brought into the country illegally. Of course many of them die in transit because of the terrible conditions that they are carried in. But I suppose if there are many of these banana spiders it must be difficult to find appropriate housing for them: I'm guessing that they probably have quite specialist requirements: better have them put to sleep than suffer a slow death in inappropriate conditions. thank you - I just remember when I was younger one of the kids in my class bringing back some gerbils or hamsters from his overseas holidays, it was put down because it had not gone through quarantine, the article at the time said it would happen to all animals that people tried to bring back if they didn't follow correct procedure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depurple1 Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 I was in a reptile shop buying stuff for my sugar gliders when the owner got a phone call from an old couple who had just found a spider in their grapes from Asda. They got it into a jar and brought it in, and it turned out to be a black widow. It was an evil looking thing. It at least had a happy ending as the shop owner is an exotics expert and kept it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaLQ Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 We found a (hatched) egg sac in our bananas once (after they'd been open a day or two). Took them - and a couple of the dead babies we also found - back to Morrisons and they apologised and promised to send them off to spider experts so we could find out if they were anything dangerous and whether or not to get the house fumigated. They said they'd get back to us within a fortnight. That was...ohh....a year or two ago, and we've still not heard back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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