General Chat

Creepy crawly, creepy crawly ..... :-D

George (cat) was on the arm of the sofa, next to me.
Betty (cat) was the opposite side of the room looking at us.
Both George and I saw a huuuge (over 4" across) spider head straight for Betty - and walk into her. The spider did a quick 'about turn', and headed towards my PC in the corner.
Unfortunately for him, Betty had obviously felt him bump into her, and disdainfully watched him walk away. She then followed him, and George decided to join her to 'help'.
They did a pincer movement, but George gave up after 5 minutes. Betty was there for over half an hour.

Not sure if she caught him, but he kept her entertained for a while
:-D

It must be the day for spiders.

There was a MONSTER on our back deck this morning...... I could see his eyes, watching me! I usually have a coffee outside in the morning...... I took it inside!

Can I borrow Betty please? :-D

if cat or dogs eat spiders dragonfly or slugs will it harm them

Don't suppose the dog or cat will suffer much but I don't give much for the spider or dragonfly.

Our old labrador Hobo used to catch flys on the wing, you would hear buzzzzzz snap! Chomph chomph! Never needed fly spray in our house. ;-)

My Desmond, who is past it now, would bring me in a mouse or rat and lose interest once he had presented it, still alive and well, to me.

Not sure if Betty ate the spider.
She came in from outside once with what looked like a small stick protruding out of her mouth. She had her lips pursed around it (the only cat I've ever known who can purse her lips) :-S, and a horrific loud distorted 'purring'/buzzing was coming from her.
I looked at her somewhat bemused, horrified and intrigued, then, to check she was okay called her name.
She opened her mouth to reply - and a live dragonfly flew out of her mouth!! :-0 :-0
The 'purring',/buzzing was the dragonfly's wings beating in her mouth.

Fred once rescued a mallard duckling. It turned into a tatty old drake with no oil in it's feathers. Fred called it OI because that was what he called when he was gardening for the duck to come over and enjoy the worm he had just dug up.

He was happy for the duck to eat worms but no quite as impressed when he was weeding by his fish pond while the duck had a bit of a swim ( he could only do this when accompanied because he became waterlogged).

Quite unconcernedly, Oi stuck his head in and took out a goldfish which he ate without even looking guilty.

:-D :-D :-D

I'm not sure why you named tis thread after the mayor of London :-S

:-D :-D :-D

Thinking about it - probably very appropriate.

A male desperate to mate blunders into the long black fur, not of a female spider, but a female cat!!

Right look, right sex, just wrong species
:-S

.......and any huge hairy spiders in my house have always been called Boris......

lol Maggie........ I call all spiders Boris........ after the song in the 60s.

Creepy Crawly, Creepy Crawly, Creepy Creepy, Crawly Crawly

I know the words, but can't do the deep voice bit :-D

The Monster Boris is back....... sort of.

On Thursday I brushed away his cobweb between a hanging basket & the roof....... and he scuttled off.

He's back....... on the floor, with a million ants crawling over him.

What's left of him.

:-(

Poor Boris :-(

I went outside early this morning, to water the herb pots.

Big Boris' little son must be looking for him. Boris Jr was sitting on the handle of my watering can!

The herbs can wait a while.

:-(

I picked up a garden trowel the other day.

Fortunately I didn't grab it by the handle, as when I turned it over, there in the hollow on the reverse side was a big dark black spider, with a gorgeous streak of red emblazoned on it's back....or should I say her back ;-) :-D :-D

lolol

DH went to pick up what he thought was a piece of black plastic pipe........ nope...... a snake! I've never seen him move so fast.

I went to hang out some washing over the weekend, and was 'caught' by a very strong web that stuck to me.
I saw the 'culprit' - not very big - on a peg.
Goodness knows what the neighbours thought of me, I apologised to the spider :-S
When I went to get the washing in - it had spun another horrendously strong web between the washing line and the shrubs :-|

I also have leylandii (I didn't plant them) growing by my gate. Every morning this week, the neighbours across the road have seem me make some sort of genuflection before I go through the gate. It's not some strange religious rite - I'm only pushing away the webs :-(