vaejovis wrote:Come on boys! It is only a spider.
Spiders are great. You know I dont even kill them in the house anymore no matter how loud my wife is hollerin. I hear that spider-alarm going off and I usually meander towards the sound of the alarm, smug and certain I will need a magnifying glass to even see it. Most of the time I am equiped with a glass or clear plastic container, and a flat piece of plastic. The glass goes over the spider, and slide the plastic underneath and now you have a pet spider. I usually have a good gander at it and then take it out to the bushes in the back. I figure he probably came inside on accident, so he'd probably rather be back outside.
Usually the spider alarms result in non-life threatening, or heart stopping spiders. IOW, the spider alarm is very sensitive and goes off at the smallest of spiders.
One day, I heard it going off in the downstairs bathroom and I thought my bemused, "Isnt that cute" thoughts and headed to the rescue. This time however, when I turned into the room, I even had to stop and go "whoa!". A big she-wolf was sitting there on the floor. I was so impressed that the spider alarm really did come through this time! Did a little catch, observe and release and we were safe again.
In my experience, wolf spiders are actually pretty mellow.