To mount my tarantula onto a log

[TheQueenOfDiamonds]

I have some Tarantulas.
One of them (my favourite one) died. I would like to mount her onto a log or inside a photo frame and varnish her.

Would this freak you out if you saw this in someones house? Its not like she's alive. Its an ornament. Like when people stuff animals I guess.

I did it with one of my mums and my OH and his friend jumped out of their seats screaming when they noticed it.

I don't want people to be scared to come in my house!

You have started this thread in order to torture me so whatever the answer to your question YABU for making me itch and shake.

Go away!

urgh. sorry, i know, your pets but urgh. [scurries away] eeeeeeeeeek!

Sorry you lost you pet.

In answer to your question I would find a dead spider in a frame or anywhere else very disturbing and would prefer not to visit on that basis.

However all the live ones might persuade me, I like the live ones they are interesting to watch. I just really hate dead things which is weird I know.

Ha. I'm in trouble with DH for throwing out a whole bunch of bananas last night as I unpacked my shopping because there was something round and webby in it and I was convinced it was a nest-type-thing!

Sorry to hear about your spider.

How would you go about it though? FWIW I worked with a taxidermist once and he would never do "personals" as they didn't usually turn out quite how the owner hoped - you know, their beloved pet didn't look as good as they remembered!

Brilliant thread OP . Arf at the arachnophobes torturing themselves every refresh.

God I'm so filthy I thought this was a new sexual term.

Shuffles off in shame...

Greenwich - we have a snake and he is so easy to look after. He is 7 years old now and beautiful.

We clean him out once a week, just like you would a hamster or a rabbit. If you dont mind having dead, frozen mice in your freezer, then you will be fine.

He did escape once, in our old house. We found him a couple of months later in the airing cupboard.

Please will spider and snake owners stop casually referring to their pets escaping...!

It doesn't help.

OP many apologies that earlier I forgot to say sorry for your loss. Whilst I wouldn't keep them myself I totally understand how as pets they are family members.

Im not sure about varnishing it! wont it clog up the hairs? I'm scared of spiders - but i like tarantulas (weird)

DaGruffalo! my eyes have almost popped out of my head. I was reading your story like this >>

It really happens! I knew it!
And how do we know if our neighbours keep spiders? I mean its not like they have to tell us. Ohhhhhhh
Did they catch the one in your house? Was the cardboard box big enough?

If I knew my neighbours kept spiders I honestly think I'd have to move. I really don't think I could handle it.

P.s was that your first ever EVER post? Ever?

I'd do it - I'm terrified of them, but it's your house and your pet. If it's framed you can always remove it if phobic people come to visit.

I put one of DS's pet hissers in an acrylic block after she died. A few months later my his favorite one died - he's still waiting to be done, as I don't think I got the mixture right the first time, and want to do a better job with 'Wilson'!

And slightly OT - whilst in Florida in 2004 we went to a show at Silver Springs. I get to hold a rather large toad (needed both hands, keep still, don't piss it off or it'll puff up and secrete poison). Next thing I know I'm being asked if I know what an arachnid is 'oh shit' thinks I. Scorpion I said hopefully? Nope, he brings out a huge bloody tarantula. Please don't bring that near me I said, I'm terrified. Twat then puts it on my shoulder. Resisting the urge to go apeshit (and still holding sodding toad trying not to hurt it either) I stand there shaking (much as I HATE spiders I know these things are delicate, and didn't want to hurt it by shaking it off). I'm ok pretending it's not there (repeat until you believe it lol) until it's legs start to come into my line of sight on my shoulder ... I then quite calmly and firmly freak out say 'get this off me NOW! Bloke ignores me, but thank fuck OH didn't, he came to the rescue and removed the bugger. Other spectators even commented to OH on how white I went and that it was bloody obvious I didn't like them, so I was not impressed with the handler!! Never, ever, again.

Yes MrsR it was, I have been lurking for months and months never really having anything to contribute.

I don't know I was tempted when I moved to where we are now, ask my neighbours if they have any "strange" kind of pets, but thought against it didnt want to scare them before I'd moved it but thankfully have been round most of my neighbours and can safely report they only have the usual pets, cats and dogs. Although I'm not keen on cats-thats a whole different thread.

And it was the most awful experince of my life much worse than the time I nearly broke my ankle jumping out of the bath to escape the spider coming towards me on its web from the ceiling as I was minding my own busniess relaxing in said bath.
Actually that was the same house, I think there was something very wrong with that house.

MrsRhett. Don't come live in my village. I live near a warehouse that stores imported bananas. We get all sorts of funny spiders in. We have to catch them then call a man from the warehouse who comes to have a look at them and take them away. We haven't had any bad ones yet, but we did have one that looked like a giant translucent red ant.

Shut up! lady wow! Just wow! (Where do you live please?)

MrsRhett, just on the Wiltshire, Dorset border. This is the last one we had in. Battery is there for scale. click at your own peril

I would never come to your house if you did that. Pets should be buried or burned.

Ok, never visiting the wiltshire, Dorset border. Ever.

You are very pretty Q of Diamonds.

We Apparently have colonies of black widows that have cross bred with the local spiders, and scorpions round here! --vicinity of Harwich and I saw on the news once, about a lady that moved into her new house, and was sitting in the kitchen one night, and a Jeffing great tarantula scuttled along the kit Ben floor and disappeared under the cooker. She quite justifiably went postal, and called in the experts to catch it. THEY COULDN'T FIND IT!
I would have had the place on the market faster than you can say "fetch the heavy slipper"!

We have a monster living at the top of our conservatory roof.
It's keeping the fly numbers down though so we are going to keep it.

I only saw it for the first time yesterday and. I will admit it made me twitch ever so slightly.

Yanbu. Your house your rules if the visitor doesn't like it tell them to go.

Is that you in the picture Queen? You're purty.

Yanbu, your house your rules. However I would politely decline invitations to your house if I were your friend, sorry! (Although I'd do that anyway due to the live ones. Just couldn't stomach it, sorry).

Sort of want to click lady's link, but at the same time know I really really don't!