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Why do people always assume this!!!?????

Cornflake1

Cornflake1

The Crazy Snake Lady! :-)
Why do people assume that just because I LOVE snakes, I should naturaly love spiders and anything else thats not your regualr cat/dog/fish/rabbit type of pet?? :shrugs:
I hate spiders and anything crawly!!!!! I have such a fear I have nightmares frequently and just go to pieces when I see one! :crying: Crazy I know, I don't know why I do but I do and it's so frustrating when people say "...you're alright....you keep snakes!"
So I started this thread to discover whether I'm alone on this matter or not, hopefully I'm not?!? :nope:
 
Heh. One of my college suit-mates assumed that because I liked frogs and seemed like an outdoors person that I would appreciate it if she brought back a hugemongous (for Mass) bug of some sort that has great big pincer looking things.

As I was yelling at her to get it far away from me and release it back outside, she just sat there talking about she thought I would like.

I am not phobic and can appreciate crawly things, but I like those things far away from me and not in my home! And if ou must show me, please listen and get rid of it when I ask instead of standing there looking baffled.
 
I love herps, I absolutely detest almost any insect. You wanna see a grown man scream like a 10 yr old girl? Throw a roach at me.
 
I'm just a teeny bit ashamed to admit it, but about 10 years ago I actually took therapy to get over my spiderphobia. I was only really afraid of one kind of spider, the one that lives around here and goes into the houses (especially in spring and autumn), very to the point named: the common house spider :) not even venomous or anything.
It got to the point where I couldn't go in a room if a spider like that was there. I'd call my neighbours to get it out (kinda embarrasing right :) at that particular time, the spider was in the room with the vacuum cleaner, my one and only means of disposing of one)
Finally I asked my docter to recommend a therapist and he did wonders. By the end of the therapy I could pick my "practice spider" :D out of his jar on one leg.
Now I can't do that anymore, and I'm still not really at ease, but when one is in the house, I can at least catch him in a jar and put him outside.
 
I HATE insects! Anything that flies,crawls or can climb walls with multiple legs is not welcome in my home! When Ariel was holding a tarantula at the Cleveland Show I cringed just praying she would not ask if she could have one!
 
I always find that once people know I love snakes, they assume I want to hear their snake-killing stories!!! I HATE THAT!!!!!!!!!
 
KALI- definately no need to be ashamed! It's house spiders that are the worst for me too! I've thought about seeing somebody, considered hypnotherapy but then I thought....Do I actually want to be able to tolerate and touch these hairy legged mini monsters??? So with the answer being a firm 'NO' I'm just settling for the huge gasp when I see one which then my husband comes running in to save me...and if he doesn't come quick enough my gasp is followed by a scream then a paniced cry with tears! Real one's! :cry:
 
I am not fond of spiders, I even used to be quite afraid, but can have learned to live with them. They are in every corner of my bathroom, and looking at the mosquitoes and moths in their webs makes me kind of appreciate them. They tend to hold down certain areas, most of which are far from my personal comfort zone, and they keep the really pesky insects at bay. You just have to learn to live with them, maybe even appreciate that they keep the real bothersome insects away, and leave them be.
As for me ever handling one, never, no tarantula pets for me. But I see macro photos like those of Snakewispera, and can at least SOMEWHAT admire looking at them... From afar of course!
It is funny how people categorize snake loving people as those who appreciate all creepy creatures, contrarily I think snakes aren't creepy at all, and find it funny that some people can deal with spiders but hate snakes.

Nanci, I agree with you too, that drives me nuts. I get very angry hearing people talk like that, and really don't see how I would find it interesting in the slightest bit. When he was a baby I took out my Ball Python to show my mothers friend and her daughter, the daughter (also one of my best friends sister) remarked how that was the same snake a friend of hers threw at her. I was disgusted, and she seemed shocked when I described that snakes do have ribs, and can easily be killed from something like that.
 
I'm personally a huge fan of the Rhino Beetle. I really have a fear of the bugs that will suck your blood. I really like to watch ants, they do such cool things :p. I used to have a huge ant hill right across the street, I'd catch big spiders and dump them near the hill and watch them use teamwork to take down the spider and carry it down a hole. My neighbor's cat had great fun of finding mice and dumping them on our front step. I decided to take the mouse and dump it on the anthill, within 3 days there was only bones.

Blood sucking bugs will receive the :smash:
 
Cornflake1 said:
KALI- definately no need to be ashamed! It's house spiders that are the worst for me too! I've thought about seeing somebody, considered hypnotherapy but then I thought....Do I actually want to be able to tolerate and touch these hairy legged mini monsters??? So with the answer being a firm 'NO' I'm just settling for the huge gasp when I see one which then my husband comes running in to save me...and if he doesn't come quick enough my gasp is followed by a scream then a paniced cry with tears! Real one's! :cry:
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I completely understand. the tears too. I didn't really *want* to touch them either, but decided I had to do something about it. It actually was getting worse. I couldn't look at spider pics either. I used to cross my eyes just a teeny little bit so the pic wasn't in focus.
Actually, that was one of the first things the therapist gave me as "homework". looking at a snake pic, and making a little log of it. I have a book where I wrote down how long I could watch the pic (In focus :)) before I got too scared to continue. The very first time I tried that I got to 3 seconds :eek1:
The last session I went to like I said I was able to pick it up. The therapist said I could choose, keep going and be completely at ease, or if I thought this was enough then I could stop. I stopped at that time. I didn't have to become a spider friend per se. Just wanted to be able to get them out of the house without panicky calls to someone else. I don't dare touch them anymore now, but that's ok. I can get them out, and I don't cry anymore when I see one.
 
Spiders aren't really something I look for in a pet. I don't mind holding them. I have a simple rule, if they leave me alone, I won't disturb them. Currently I have a spider testing that rule. It keeps building a web across my driveway and sometimes I walk into it when I am trying to get to my car. I am debating on relocating it since it hasn't figure out that is not a good place to build its web as it gets destroyed whenever my boyfriend drives his car.
 
If the spiders are outside, I leave them alone. If they're on my porch, or in my house, they die. Short, sweet, and to the point.
 
Spiders are fine. Have had numerous harmless tarantulas from the woods of central Louisiana. And scorpions (of course, one doesn't touch them anyway).

I'm not big on anything wet or really anything furry. I have raised feeder mice over the years, and they're OK. But rats, etc.,......
........and sugargliders for sure : they run, jump, and fly. Oh No, Unh-unh.
And no lizards beyond a certain size.

I suppose it has something to do with things that can move faster than my eyes can follow.
 
Robbie, remember my spider that lives on my bike rack that you got to meet at the Alligator Farm? She's thriving and has a girlfriend, too! They are getting big!
 
Well I am pleased and relieved to hear that I am certainly not alone on this!! :)
I guess I should be thankful then that I live in England and we only get house spiders. If I ever saw a scorpion or tarantula or any other giant bugs that thrive in warmer countries I think I would die of fright!!
Although, I love watching them on tele :shrugs: the nature programs that get up close and personal to all things creepy and crawly! They make me squirm but I can deal with that! Definately not so if they were on my doorstep!
 
RobbiesCornField said:
If the spiders are outside, I leave them alone. If they're on my porch, or in my house, they die. Short, sweet, and to the point.
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My husband won't let me kill them, or let the dog eat them as she trie to do. so we have an arrangement that he will come running when I see one. My main worry is during the night. I worry that they can crawl over you and go in your mouth and up your nose!! :eek: without you knowing. Thats what gives me nightmares, coz I think about it before I go to sleep!! With that, perhaps I should sign off here for tonight now! :sidestep:
 
regular bugs dont bother me but SPIDERS MUST DIE lol i hate them. especially tarantulas (which is what my boyfriend likes and he also hates snakes(cuz he got bit) so i guess it just depends on the ppl as to what they like and dislike
 
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