Night Time Is Babey Time

The more I work with tarantulas they less I understand the overwhelming fear and hatred most people have towards them (not talking about legitimate, involuntary phobias btw…just to be clear). Tarantulas are such oversensitive, helpless little babies.

Even the defensive species are mostly just cute and hilariously silly in their reactivity. “I’m so offended by the opening of my cage that I will now threat pose so hard that I almost fall over.” Like, we do this every week, little dude. Chill. Stop trying to fight your water dish.

I guess it’s hard to be scared of an animal you’ve seen violently flee from a prey item less than ¼th their size, or stand on tiptoes because they don’t like a new texture, or obsessively and meticulously clean every little spider-paw after a meal because it’s not polite to be dirty.

They’re like grumpy little eight-legged cats and I love them all.

why don’t you stare back into my huge eye

why don’t you set my wings on fire

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this is a reminder: tell your spiders that they are beautiful today!

Remember: a lot of people tell them they’re ugly and should be killed. All spiders want to do is help us, so sometimes they need a little self-esteem boost!

Halloween 2019.

I’m not a songbird. I’m a screm bird!

I’ve never seen a wild red fox in my home state but I spotted this poor beauty on the side of the highway today. I really wish that I could have seen her out in the woods where she belongs and this sight broke my heart. Please please watch for wildlife when you’re out on the roads; animals don’t understand why their world is changing and their forests are shrinking. We have to do better by them.