Are Spiders really *this* weird? [aka OMG...I thought he was dead!]

[meowmeowkazoo]

Charlotte sleeps with her head and neck sideways, sticking out of her hide. Upside down is even worse though.

[frenchy]

I walk in to the room and here clanking coming from the tubs and what did i leave a rat in there HOLY CRAP noooooo o wait the spider is just doin her cobra dance wackying the side of her tub with her head ive seriously thought about padding her tub

[ExotixTowing]

Ugh I posted in the wrong thread lol could get #10 removed and I will post it in the right thread
Thanks

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[PorcelainxDoll]

I walk in to the room and here clanking coming from the tubs and what did i leave a rat in there HOLY CRAP noooooo o wait the spider is just doin her cobra dance wackying the side of her tub with her head ive seriously thought about padding her tub

Hahaha!

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[flatsix02]

My spider girl is coming up on 4 years old, and doesn't seem to show any of these symptoms that everyone else talks about with spiders... Am I just that lucky I guess? She has a very very tiny head wobble when shes in a tight attack stance after I drop a rat in her tank, but that's it. I couldn't imagine waking up to find her sleeping upside down. I too would have a minor heart attack!

[MaxT815]

Sounds like your guys Spiders have some mild to sever cases of head wobble. It does effect spider gened morphs such as the Bee lines as well. My big female has a moderate case of head wobble too. She does sleep with her head at an angle sometimes. I agree they are crafty creatures. Biggest scare i had was when i opened the tub of my male lesser and low and behold he wasnt there! took me a couple moments of looking around the room before i found him hiding in the very back of the tub underneath the newspaper!

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I walk in to the room and here clanking coming from the tubs and what did i leave a rat in there HOLY CRAP noooooo o wait the spider is just doin her cobra dance wackying the side of her tub with her head ive seriously thought about padding her tub

It sounds like your spider has a really bad case of head wobble. I personally always feel bad for them some people say its cute and stuff but when i see a spider flip its head completely backwards or spaz out and they cant control it makes me feel bad. I dont like they devolop that trait i really enjoy the spider lines and what their genes due to other morphs

[Salamander Rising]

They are definitely different... My spider was a nut job, he was the only snake I've ever had that didn't give me any warning pose, he just turned and bit me every now and again for no reason.

OMG...I shouldn't laugh....but...




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Wait until the first time you find your breeding female lying completely upside down. I mean, completely and totally upside down! Talk about stopping your heart.

Better yet, wait until you have a young breeding male disappear from his female's tub, and about the time you notice he is gone, you notice the female looks really swollen and is acting all funny. And you think you just witnessed cannibalism first hand. Only to discover the brat boy curled up on the heat tape behind the females tub a short while later!

I think these guys live to give us heart seizures.

Gale

Ack!!!



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They probably sit in their tubs and whisper, "Hey guys, watch this, I'm gonna scare her half to death......."

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[Salamander Rising]

Someone really needs to start a picture thread of Spiders (or any other morph) doing bizarre things like this. As soon as I can get Ajja to curl up in her cinnamon roll and go to sleep on my chest again, when I actually HAVE a camera, I'm snapping pics.

I could kick myself for not having one Wed. night.

My new little Fire baby has been eating by just politely picking up her hopper and carrying it into her hide.

This last time, she discovered that she was...a snake!

I laid the mouse at the door of her little half-coconut shell and all of sudden, her head shot out and then straight up and she came down upon it shaped exactly like a hammer.

She sort of "pounded" it with her nose, grabbed it in her mouth, pathetically "killed" it with a half-hearted "I have no idea why I'm doing this" coil and then stuck her little skinny neck straight up in the air at least 6 inches, waving the poor squished hopper all around, crazily.

At last, she dragged inside and ate it.

Such a display of primal savagery out of a such an itty-bitty little 98 gram snakeling.

I thought I was gonna cry, I was laughing so hard.

I wish I'd had a camera.



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Well, after i went home replaced the plug in the kitchen (pyro dog) then prayed that he hadn't started a fire in the walls ( infrared heat detection) I heated up my bp's meals.. Got down stairs knowing they needed fresh water placed Aurora's rat on his screen... The little bugger was trying to grab it already....

New plan offer now then fill water so I grabbed it by the tail... Not thinking (with my fingers) tongs were right there DOH slid back the lid and wham with the blink of an eye he had it.... He proceeds to land in his water dish and stayed there till he had killed his rat again lol..

He never ceases to amaze me at his willingness to eat lol, Diablo on the other hand.. Practically makes me hold the rat in the center of his tank dripping on him for 5 minutes, all the while the stupid cat is poking her head in there as to say hey what's the deal here how come I don't get rats as a snack lol

I immediately thought of this post lol


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LOLOL!

Your house sounds like my house....

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Charlotte sleeps with her head and neck sideways, sticking out of her hide. Upside down is even worse though.

Remind me again....why are we wanting these "village idiot" genes in our snakes?



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I walk in to the room and here clanking coming from the tubs and what did i leave a rat in there HOLY CRAP noooooo o wait the spider is just doin her cobra dance wackying the side of her tub with her head ive seriously thought about padding her tub

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My spider girl is coming up on 4 years old, and doesn't seem to show any of these symptoms that everyone else talks about with spiders... Am I just that lucky I guess? She has a very very tiny head wobble when shes in a tight attack stance after I drop a rat in her tank, but that's it. I couldn't imagine waking up to find her sleeping upside down. I too would have a minor heart attack!

Knock on wood, quick!

[Dlp40]

And there's another reason i don't want any spider stuff. The wobble thing and stories like this one have completely turned me into a total spider window shopper, nice to look at but not own, lol.

[Reesy]

That's how mine got the name "short bus", He doesn't show any signs of wobble until after nightfall, then he twists his head and neck straight back over his back and does his stevie wonder impersonation. He does two things very well though, eat and breed. Here's a pic of one of his offspring, she hasn't showed any signs of wobble yet.