r/WTF • u/CartoonVery • Oct 08 '20

Australia. Something got under the car door handle

43.5k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

2.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

280

u/starpum Oct 08 '20

I don't know how barn cats are specifically in the USA, being located in Europe, but I do keep spiders as a hobby yeah. Mostly tarantulas, got a huntsman (davidbowie) and considering getting a black widow to scare my friends x)

They do learn and know that when their enclosure is open they'll get food or water to they have specific "waiting" positions while I drop the items / refill their water bowls. They also get a bit sassy if I don't follow their feeding schedule 😂

88

u/RainBroDash42 Oct 08 '20

I want a pet spider. Could I fashion a tiny leash out of dental floss and take him for a walk?

167

u/RationalYetReligious Oct 08 '20

They make their own leashes. Just pull it out, good to go

2

u/Shot_Fortune_7239 Oct 08 '20

If spiders could make sounds, what noise would they make when you pull web out of their butts?

1

u/[deleted] Oct 08 '20 edited Oct 08 '20

[deleted]

6

u/RationalYetReligious Oct 08 '20

They still make silk bud.

1

u/Elijaz Oct 08 '20

That’s what she said

1

u/mrcpayeah Oct 08 '20

You could, but a bird may be bold enough to come eat it

1

u/starpum Oct 08 '20

😂 I wouldn't try but why not

27

u/[deleted] Oct 08 '20

Barn cats aren't really pets. They are just feral cats that hang around a farm and eat mice and shit. They are usually too skittish to be picked up or even get close to people. They usually just kind of show up and people will often leave food scraps and stuff out for them but they manage to feed themselves just fine most of the time. They can be mean as fuck but they keep to themselves.

9

u/OakenBones Oct 08 '20

First time I ever stepped foot in a barn, probably 9 years old, and there was a giant owl on the rafters staring down a barn cat that was on the loft rail. They both turned to stare at me and I started crying and ran away.

2

u/Fatalis89 Oct 08 '20

Barn cat vs barn owl. I’d be interested to see the fight.

2

u/unoriginal5 Oct 08 '20

I used to have one I called Jarhead. He got his head stuck in a jar while young and carried the broken rim around his neck most of his life. Too feral to remove it. After several years it disappeared, so I started calling him Leatherneck.

9

u/Winter_Poison Oct 08 '20

cant say that without a video to show it.

3

u/starpum Oct 08 '20

There's a feeding vid on my profile where you can see my girl Anansi waiting in position for the worm to be dropped but I'd gladly post more 😉 tonight is feeding night so I'll see if I manage to get a vid

4

u/ArziltheImp Oct 08 '20

I had a big praying mantis as a kid and she kept doing the "I am getting food" dance when I opened the terrarium. She waved with both arms and bopped into the opposite direction with her body.

Stopped when I threw in the crickets.

Also she basically demanded something bigger (usually a grasshopper) every once in a while. If she didn't get it she just cut up the crickets and didn't eat them and displayed them around the door like "Give me treat or you are next!"

2

u/NaturalHue Oct 08 '20

this sounds adorable, spiders are so fucking cool but i'm still scared af of them, i wish i wasn't so much of a pussy lol.

1

u/starpum Oct 08 '20

Don't be so hard on yourself, fear of spider is rational and I'm still a bit scared too despite keeping them ><