To wish my spiders were house trained?

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AIBU to wish that all the many spiders living in my house were house trained?
I'm actually quite happy to cohabit with them and all their spindly speedy spidy creepy crawly legs, I can even put up with their cobwebs, but I have had it with the spider poo!
It's so annoying to clean up and scrubbing those little tiny round spots of spider crap from the floor/skirting board/window sill/wherever they happen to have been hanging out, takes considerably more effort than I would like - it's like they weld it on somehow and then sit there chuckling at me.
I'd happily provide them with a little spider litter tray if I thought they would use it...

I'm with you!! I can't take my nice newly painted white windows covered in spider poo - it took too much effort to paint!!

Yes! I am completely chilled about having spiders in the house and enjoy watching them spin their webs but, as you say, find it so annoying having to wipe down the window sills and things

It has never occurred to me that that would be spider poo! Mehmet I'd be wiping the windowsills the same amount anyway. My rule is that you stay out of the beds and you can stay.

We have an arrangement with the massive one in our ensuite....it is not allowed in the bedroom and it must scuttle back behind the cupboard when we go I there. Worked well for a year then for some reason one day it decides to run at me whilst on the loo....it was rapidly evicted after that.

Yes, there needs to be some sort of tenancy agreement where they agree to abide by the rules!

That's the problem with leaving spiders in your house.

They do not want to coexist in peaceful equilibrium.

In the autumn they will roam. They will lay eggs to produce more spiders and the number will get out of control like what happened in the house I currently live in because the previous occupant was one of these "don't kill the cuddly spiders" type.

Most animals will behave in a similar manner including rats and mice.

Eliminate them at a rate that maintains the equilibrium.

Spider poo is remarkably robust! I have a pet tarantula who comes out onto her hide, turns her butt and poops onto the glass…the same bit of glass every time. And she’s medically significantly venomous so I don’t want to be disturbing her too much to clean up cement like poop! To be fair, if she was actually in the wild up a tree then the poo fall down to the ground and her home would be clean…alas, that does not work in a glass enclosure!

I was enjoying watching a fly winding one of my resident spiders up in the bathroom the other day... It was flying around the web carefully trying not to get caught and Boris was chasing it... I was having the time of my life

YABVU. No spider should ever be house trained. Because they should all be garden trained and show no desire to cohabit with humans. Or even close to us.

I had a big one in the corner of my bathroom for 2 years, I was happy for her to stay and even dd who is normally afraid of spiders grew fond of her, giving her a name and declaring she was the only spider she ever trusted. But by the end of her life with us her web was extremely messy with fly leftovers and old skin sheds it was quite horrifying to look at. Thankfully she finally left one day and her web was hoovered up and egg sac discreetly rehoused in the garden shed before the dc found out about it and insisted we keep Matilda’s 200 babies too!

It never even occurred to me that spiders poo! I suppose they must.

Fortunately there aren't many in my house as my cats see them as a tasty snack.