Indorex on spiders

[Hbhhhh193948484848]

I’ve seen lots of people recommended indorex to keep spiders away , I’ve got some and wondering where do you spray it ? Just skirting boards and door entrances ?

I really hope it works 😭

"I don't like something, so I'm gonna kill it. UGG"

Oh goddddd I WISH it was as simple as "I don't like something". Seriously. That doesn't even cover a tiny fraction of it.

I'm honest to god terrified of them. Like the whole world stops spinning, heart pounding through my ribcage, completely shaking with fear. You could offer me £1,000,000 in cash right now, and I genuinely could not catch one in order to take it outside.

The only way I've been able to cope is that "fight or flight" instinct kicking in and if someone is there to deal with it, I get the fuck away from it but if not, I kill it from a distance with a long swifer or hairspray.

I absolutely know it's cruel and I absolutely wish I didn't have to do it, but if I "lose it" I will be wide awake all night, sitting on the sofa with boots on and my hood up, anxiety through the roof until it's dead. Yes it's cruel. So is the unnecessary suffering and pain animals are put through to give us halal meat and milk.

I wouldn’t be spraying Raid liberally around, it’s evil stuff.

We have a lot of cellar spiders around at the moment. I leave their webs where I can but they’ve really branched out this year!

They must all be vegans too!

And @remiss wins the Unnecessary Shoehorning In Of A Racist Trope for today ⭐️ 🥇
On a thread about house spiders. Kudos, bet that took some doing.

I understand arachnophobia OP! People don’t realise how crippling it can be. I did the Friendly Spider Program at London Zoo and I’m much calmer about them now. I can now deal with even the big ones using one of those catching devices.

One thing the spider experts told us is that it is better (for the spider) to put them outside. Despite the name “house spider” they didn’t evolve to live in an environment as dry and warm as a modern house and they are better off hibernating in a log pile / undergrowth etc outside.

Fleas are a parasite and a nasty one at that!

Spiders do literally nothing to you or your animals. Apart from eat micro pests in your house, but seems most people here prefer carpet bugs and mites to spiders.

Your home is exactly that, yours! If you don't want spiders crawling all over the walls then I don't think you should be shamed for it.

Actually, our homes are also home to countless other creatures, whether we like it or not; and no one has walls with spiders "crawling all over" them.

Oh God we'll have the "I hope you're all vegans argument soon", yawn.

Spiders do absolutely NO HARM to us so leave them alone. It's really not that difficult.

And there it is in the time it took to type my post. Oh @inkworks273 how very predictable 😆

PP have mentioned that it's been a bad year for instincts, but I have to report that wasps have done really well. Loads of them around (I quite like wasps so it's no bother, apart from when they try to steal my ice cream).

Why on earth did I type "instincts" when I meant "insects"...?

Predictable or you read my post first 😅

Unnecessary shoehorning? The entire thread is about unnecessary cruelty towards animals and OP is getting piled on for killing a few spiders a year in a world where we routinely slit the throats of animals, rip their offspring away, let them watch each other die, force them to live their entire lives in cages or tanks surrounded by their own shit and filth etc. That's not touching on fleas, lice, worms etc as pp said.

If you took that as racist and not "I fully accept I'm being cruel and can't/ won't change AND I fully accept others right to do so" that's on you. We're all "as bad" as each other and we're all mostly doing what we CAN to limit suffering, where we can, when possible. I don't really care if it's because of a phobia or a religion or just because you like the taste of cow's milk - everyone has their reasons for their own contribution. Not that you'd know it from reading this thread though.

Ahhh, but you didn’t say all that, did you @remiss ? You went straight for ‘halal’ slaughter as if non halal slaughter is all fine and dandy. So you’ve expanded on that in your subsequent post, but your first reaction was to throw in a form of slaughter practised by a specific religion. I wonder why that is?

So why be so specific with your halal reference?

I have a massive phobia of spiders I can't use the glass and card technique or spider catchers because that requires being an arms length away from them. If it's a big one I can't even be in the sane room (I'm fine with outside spiders)
I can deal with the spindly ones and I read they kill the bigger ones so I mainly leave them alone. but I have to enlist help for bigger ones

@Saucery because that and milk were literally the first examples that sprung to mind when thinking about "unnecessary pain and suffering we inflict on animals".

I wonder why that is?

Because I couldn't be arsed typing a big massive paragraph filled with 100s of examples to dance around the fact everyone knows what point I'm making when I give those two particular examples. You don't need to have watched a 2hr Netflix expose type documentary like Seaspiracy to understand how halal and dairy are clear examples of completely "unnecessary" pain and suffering inflicted on animals. They are the best analogies because they're something some people feel they have to do / want to do, while others refuse to understand why people don't use alternatives. Thus making my point in the fewest words possible.

Amusing that you think on a thread full of people completely against any form of animal cruelty, the one in favour of it for justifiable reasons (like phobias or religion or because you like the taste of milk - that's not for me to judge) is the racist one. My ENTIRE post is literally about not judging people until you've walked a mile in their shoes.

You must be exhausted.

There is absolutely no way I could get close to a spider to put it under a glass or use that friendly spider things.

It's the legs! I couldn't cope with the legs sticking out.

I'm petrified of spiders too..it really bugs me (pardon the pun) as am not remotely afraid of anything else..snakes/rats etc. There is just something about the way they scuttle and move..just typing this is making my skin crawl.

Mind you I don't kill the bastards...I'll get OH to gently remove them or if it's just me and the kids, have managed to humanely remove them.

I honestly couldn't leave a big house spider in situ though. It has to go I'm afraid..I probably should look into some help really as I'm generally a hippy lover of all things..just not spiders!

What is the difference between kosher and halal meat? From what I read both involve the trachea and esophagus being severed with a special razor-sharp blade, causing instantaneous death with no pain to the animal.

Spiders come back in to their territory so putting them just outside won't do anything

Will you feel better when your home gets overrrun by the insects and bugs your friendly home spider is taking care of right now?

Haha couldn't read beyond this comment. Lol at op calling others dramatic 😂

I had such bad fear of spiders and did a friendly spider course which COMPLETELY cured me. Check out your local zoo!

Because that's comparable....