to Kadee the rat lady :)

February 16, 2007

Spiders are indeed very neat, we used to have this humongous black and yellow

one in the back yard at my parents' house. She had an enormous web, like one

from a photo. It was perfect. She laid eggs and had babies, which was cool.

Spiders were fine and dandy till the Jumping Spider Incident. It was in our

apartment that we lived in two houses ago. I was sitting on the couch with my

daughter and we were reading a book when I felt something on my arm. It was one

of those fuzzy black jumping spiders. AAAHHH!! I hurled Leah (as gently as

possible) to the other side of the couch and ran trembling to the door to put

him outside. But by the time I got there he was gone. He'd jumped off, and I

didn't know where he was. Those suckers will bite, so I took Leah and locked her

in her room so the spider couldn't get her. I found him on the arm of the couch

and I told him VERY POLITELY to please stay there while I went to the kitchen. I

got a cup and a paper towel and as I reached over

to put the cup on him, he jumped onto my arm, and then onto my FACE. The blinds

were open and the maintenance guy Eddie apparently saw me in there jumping and

freaking out. Probably heard me screaming too. Well anyway, in the end I caught

that awful spider and took him outside just as Eddie the maintenance guy was

coming up the stairs to see what in the heck was going on. I showed him the

spider and he kind of snickered at me. So now spiders go outside because their

sense of humor is not agreeable to me.

I'm glad to have another rat person around, I think a lot of the time people

think I'm crazy the way I talk about my rats like they're people or dogs... but

you understand this madness! The six foster rats we have right now are going

to their forever home on Saturday... :*( I will miss them, but I'm happy they

found a good home.

Silver Devi Dasi <silvervcc wrote:

((I keep telling my husband he should let me marry another man so I can

have one that will ACTUALLY TAKE OUT THE TRASH!!! So that's why the

spouse/spice thing is funny to me. Plus the rodent reference, we

currently have 5 of our own rats, 6 foster rats, 10 mice, and a

hamster... a bit of an addiction, eh? ))

yes well.. I am not married anymore, but I do have 3 kids, and those 3

kids will actually carry on filling the bin to more than overflowing,

but will be damned if they actually take it out without me having to

say something! soooooooo infuriating!! no motivation there whatsoever!

as for us, I am also a rat lady.. currently we have 14, of which 1 I

adopted from a friend, and the other I bought from a pet store fot 2

reasons - 1 because I wanted a female dumbo BADLY, and 2). when I got

there, I could tell immediately that this little girl was all of MAYBE

3 weeks old - much too young to be weaned, let alone sold.. therefore,

I no longer shop there even for food for my crew. but it's sooo great

that you love them too rats are such great little guys, it's really

a shame more people don't know this! kudos to you though

((I'm a spider-hater and even then I will catch them, saying " Eeewww! I

hate you spider!! Eeeewwww!! " the whole time, and I put them in the

garage so they don't freeze outside. My parents always thought I was

nuts. Maybe I am, but I'm sure the spiders adore me. ))

ahhh, don't hate the spiders.. they keep the bug population, especially

the flying bug population down some.. gotta love them for that.. they

come in in droves because they are cold.. this is why you're getting

them.. I leave them, they are quite welcome in my house, unless I see

them run across the floor, and then I am duty bound to catch them and

relocate them outside..currently though, I have to say I have a rather

beautiful spider in the kitchen. she is long and black, with beautiful

long sinuous black legs..I actually play with her by touching the

outside of her funnel like web, and she'll feel whatever it is I use to

touch it with the ends of her legs. she no longer darts out to see

what's happening - I think she's gotten used to me doing this. I just

enjoy seeing her, because she really is a pretty thing so efficient

and utterly wonderful are spiders and I'm totally getting off topic

here, but I wanted to just reply to your post here anyway hope no

one minds take care!

YS

Silver DD

Kadee Sedtal

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Pinky: " I think so, Brain, but if the plural of mouse is mice, wouldn't the

plural of spouse be spice? "

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February 16, 2007

Hope you don't mind me jumping in here, but I'm another rat lady. We got

our 2 boys from a friend, we got to watch them grow up, and took care of

them in the weaning phase with their 2 brothers while my friend was on

vacation. We fell in love with them, and they are just the sweetest gigantic

boys.

I had a mouse when I was in high school - basically my friend and I rescued

them because some jerks brought 4 of them to our prom, let them go inside

and she and I ran around trying to catch them. We only found 2 of them, and

I feel so bad for the other 2 we didn't find. That was so very looong ago it

seems. LOL. But he was loved, too.

We now have our ratties and some fish (just got a nice 20gallon tank for

free from a friend of a friend who just wanted to get rid of the tank -it

had been empty for some time) and 3 cats (they don't seem interested at all

in the rats, it was more fascinating for them to watch them when they were

little, but as they got bigger, the novelty wore off).

Missie

On 2/16/07, Kadee M <abbey_road3012 wrote:

>

> Spiders are indeed very neat, we used to have this humongous black and

> yellow one in the back yard at my parents' house. She had an enormous web,

> like one from a photo. It was perfect. She laid eggs and had babies, which

> was cool. Spiders were fine and dandy till the Jumping Spider Incident. It

> was in our apartment that we lived in two houses ago. I was sitting on the

> couch with my daughter and we were reading a book when I felt something on

> my arm. It was one of those fuzzy black jumping spiders. AAAHHH!! I hurled

> Leah (as gently as possible) to the other side of the couch and ran

> trembling to the door to put him outside. But by the time I got there he was

> gone. He'd jumped off, and I didn't know where he was. Those suckers will

> bite, so I took Leah and locked her in her room so the spider couldn't get

> her. I found him on the arm of the couch and I told him VERY POLITELY to

> please stay there while I went to the kitchen. I got a cup and a paper towel

> and as I reached over

> to put the cup on him, he jumped onto my arm, and then onto my FACE. The

> blinds were open and the maintenance guy Eddie apparently saw me in there

> jumping and freaking out. Probably heard me screaming too. Well anyway, in

> the end I caught that awful spider and took him outside just as Eddie the

> maintenance guy was coming up the stairs to see what in the heck was going

> on. I showed him the spider and he kind of snickered at me. So now spiders

> go outside because their sense of humor is not agreeable to me.

> I'm glad to have another rat person around, I think a lot of the time

> people think I'm crazy the way I talk about my rats like they're people or

> dogs... but you understand this madness! The six foster rats we have

> right now are going to their forever home on Saturday... :*( I will miss

> them, but I'm happy they found a good home.

>

> Silver Devi Dasi <silvervcc <silvervcc%40.co.uk>> wrote:

> ((I keep telling my husband he should let me marry another man so I can

>

> have one that will ACTUALLY TAKE OUT THE TRASH!!! So that's why the

> spouse/spice thing is funny to me. Plus the rodent reference, we

> currently have 5 of our own rats, 6 foster rats, 10 mice, and a

> hamster... a bit of an addiction, eh? ))

>

> yes well.. I am not married anymore, but I do have 3 kids, and those 3

> kids will actually carry on filling the bin to more than overflowing,

> but will be damned if they actually take it out without me having to

> say something! soooooooo infuriating!! no motivation there whatsoever!

> as for us, I am also a rat lady.. currently we have 14, of which 1 I

> adopted from a friend, and the other I bought from a pet store fot 2

> reasons - 1 because I wanted a female dumbo BADLY, and 2). when I got

> there, I could tell immediately that this little girl was all of MAYBE

> 3 weeks old - much too young to be weaned, let alone sold.. therefore,

> I no longer shop there even for food for my crew. but it's sooo great

> that you love them too rats are such great little guys, it's really

> a shame more people don't know this! kudos to you though

>

> ((I'm a spider-hater and even then I will catch them, saying " Eeewww! I

> hate you spider!! Eeeewwww!! " the whole time, and I put them in the

> garage so they don't freeze outside. My parents always thought I was

> nuts. Maybe I am, but I'm sure the spiders adore me. ))

>

> ahhh, don't hate the spiders.. they keep the bug population, especially

> the flying bug population down some.. gotta love them for that.. they

> come in in droves because they are cold.. this is why you're getting

> them.. I leave them, they are quite welcome in my house, unless I see

> them run across the floor, and then I am duty bound to catch them and

> relocate them outside..currently though, I have to say I have a rather

> beautiful spider in the kitchen. she is long and black, with beautiful

> long sinuous black legs..I actually play with her by touching the

> outside of her funnel like web, and she'll feel whatever it is I use to

> touch it with the ends of her legs. she no longer darts out to see

> what's happening - I think she's gotten used to me doing this. I just

> enjoy seeing her, because she really is a pretty thing so efficient

> and utterly wonderful are spiders and I'm totally getting off topic

> here, but I wanted to just reply to your post here anyway hope no

> one minds take care!

>

> YS

> Silver DD

>

> Kadee Sedtal

>

> Brain: " Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? "

> Pinky: " I think so, Brain, but if the plural of mouse is mice, wouldn't

> the plural of spouse be spice? "

>

> Check out my new , Classical 2 at

> http://launch.classical2/

>

> Be a PS3 game guru.

> Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at

> Games.

>

February 18, 2007

Kadee, that is a " garden spider " that you are describing. We had them

where I lived growing up. I haven't seen one in years. Their webs are

really interesting. Lisa

, Kadee M <abbey_road3012 wrote:

>

> Spiders are indeed very neat, we used to have this humongous black

and yellow one in the back yard at my parents' house.

February 18, 2007

Oh how good! See, vegetarians are the coolest because we have open minds!! I get

soooo very upset when people act disgusted at the rats. Really, anybody who's

ever met a nice rat couldn't possibly dislike them!! I think I've been a good

influence on my neighbor Trish. She saw some rats at Petco for " adoption " and

she snatched them up because they were in such bad conditions, and she kept the

girls while I kept the boys. She loved them! She doesn't want any as pets but

she now has a soft spot for them where there was not before. And in other

awesome, awesome news about my being a good influence, Trish is also beginning

to cut out a LOT of meat from her diet!! She's eaten meat once in the past week,

I think. She asked why I decided to become a vegetarian and I told her in all

the detail she'd tolerate (which was a lot!), and I think it really made an

impact. So wahoo!! :)

Missie Ward <mszzzi wrote: Hope you

don't mind me jumping in here, but I'm another rat lady. We got