I was bitten by a spider for the first time.

May 16, 2017, 12:00 PM

rainman64

quote:
Originally posted by 2010Challenger:
About 40 years ago, I lived in Las Vegas and under every kitchen cupboard was at least one Black Widow spider. My old Beagle seemed to have some kind of radar and found them often, and his head would swell to scary size when he got bit. Again and again. He just never seemed to get it. Leave them alone, and they will probably leave you alone too. One night I was watching TV and fell asleep. I woke up and felt something on my face, right above my lip. I swatted at it, and it bit me. My lip went almost totally numb, and swelled to the point I sounded like I was drunk. I didn't feel very well either, and called off work that night. I never got bit again, but the dopey dog did, every 3 months or so, off to the vet he went, head swollen up and walking like he was drunk. One time, he got attacked by a Newfoundland that outweighed him by 100+ pounds. Even as messed up as he was, he did some damage. The vet was impressed by his "balls", saying, "Wow, he's a tough old bastard, he'll fight anything!". He was a tough old bastard:

Challenger thats a good dog.
I cleaned the pic up a bit for you.

May 16, 2017, 02:38 PM

OneWheelDrive

I use the strobe on my Fenix light to distract them, then suck them up with the hand vac.

May 16, 2017, 03:40 PM

brecaidra

quote:
Originally posted by Jager:
Airgun. No projectile. Place muzzle near arachnid.

Poof.

So then it's even more of a mess to clean up? No, thanks.

May 16, 2017, 10:12 PM

Sunset_Va

The delayed effect of a spider bite...

A spider bit me on my side, unknowlingly, a big raw wound developed, I had no idea what it was, figured it was cancer!

May 20, 2017, 08:34 PM

brecaidra

^ How delayed are we talking here? It's been over a week and now the bite area suddenly hurts more.

In related news, a spider came to visit me while I was exercising today and I smacked it. I guess I'm a changed person.

May 20, 2017, 09:48 PM

rburg

Back to the airgun thing. I grew up before air conditioning. My brother and I lived upstairs. I had to have my window open or the temps would exceed 90 degrees even at night. So even the bugs would seek the cool outside air. I got tired of them surviving on me. You can only use a fly swatter on the screen so many times and it starts to deform. So I discovered my Benjamin pellet pistol made a lot of air. 2 drops of oil down the barrel didn't hurt the screen much, but it pushed the flys and whatever right through the mesh. Out of sight, out of mind.

All was going well until my dad decided to paint the house. He discovered an oil trail from my window down to the bricks and beyond. I guess I was a problem child. They liked my brother better. He slept in the back room with the fan. All the air would come up the stairs and bypass my room. It was just me and the bugs to fight it out. Then I wasn't allowed to kill the bugs.

May 21, 2017, 05:39 AM

side_shot

i tend to leave siders alone as long as they're not bugging me we dont have poisonous spiders in nh the same goes for snakes i have black racers living under my farmer's porch they keep the mice and chipmunk population down

May 21, 2017, 06:05 AM

2010Challenger

quote:
Originally posted by rainman64:
quote:
Originally posted by 2010Challenger:
About 40 years ago, I lived in Las Vegas and under every kitchen cupboard was at least one Black Widow spider. My old Beagle seemed to have some kind of radar and found them often, and his head would swell to scary size when he got bit. Again and again. He just never seemed to get it. Leave them alone, and they will probably leave you alone too. One night I was watching TV and fell asleep. I woke up and felt something on my face, right above my lip. I swatted at it, and it bit me. My lip went almost totally numb, and swelled to the point I sounded like I was drunk. I didn't feel very well either, and called off work that night. I never got bit again, but the dopey dog did, every 3 months or so, off to the vet he went, head swollen up and walking like he was drunk. One time, he got attacked by a Newfoundland that outweighed him by 100+ pounds. Even as messed up as he was, he did some damage. The vet was impressed by his "balls", saying, "Wow, he's a tough old bastard, he'll fight anything!". He was a tough old bastard:

Challenger thats a good dog.
I cleaned the pic up a bit for you.

Thanks! If he was a "good dog", then this one was a "really good dog", he was smarter, more stubborn, and even less tolerant of any "shit" than old Farfel was:

I couldn't have named him better. King was the definition of "Boss Dog".

May 21, 2017, 09:27 AM

sigmonkey

quote:
Originally posted by brecaidra:...a spider came to visit me while I was exercising today and I smacked it. I guess I'm a changed person.

That which doesn't kill you makes you wiser.

Have you put hairspray and a lighter on your shopping list?

May 21, 2017, 10:57 PM

Bisleyblackhawk

That is a good one sigmonkey

...well played sir, well played!

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