Unnecessarily Creepy

Sometimes I wonder... "Why did the Lord make insects unnecessarily creepy?" namely, spiders.

Last night, I was making some salsa, and out of the laundry room comes a huge spider. I stopped doing what I was doing to watch where it went and to take pictures of it. Unfortunately, I only had my phone on hand and so I could not get a good representation of the sheer size of it. Every time the thing moved I freaked out. After about 2 minutes of watching it sit in one place it started crawling across the floor, I grabbed the nearest bowl and put it over it. Obviously, I can't have unsupervised spiders crawling aroung the house. The sound of the bowl attracted all three of the cats.

First, Maggie came and pawed at the bowl, stared, and finally walked around the bowl as the spider walked around inside the bowl. After a minute or two she got bored and walked away.

Because Maggie is Annabelle's favorite, Annabelle came over to see the spectacle. Annie pawed at the bowl, and scooted it across the floor with her paws. I had to watch her to make sure she wouldn't hurt it. Sometimes she would scoot the bowl enough to get one half of the spiders legs trapped under the lip and the other legs would flail trying to pull the others free (I made sure the spider was okay).

Eventually, Kitty came around and seemed pretty interested, pawing the bowl around. Annie stayed through the whole thing.

You may ask, why didn't I just kill the spider? I couldn't, and here are my reasons... 1. It was huge and would have left a nasty mess on my kitchen floor, 2. I would have felt it squish, 3. If I vacuumed it, there is the chance of it crawling back out, 4. I feel bad, and 5. I couldn't let the cats torture it (I've watched Annie eat a bee, it is torture for the insect believe me).

This is the first huge spider I have seen in the house, thank God. My honey had to come downstairs to take the spider outside (he couldn't squish it either), he thought it was pretty funny that I couldn't do it myself.