Can you have a pet spider?

[GolfAddict]

Today was Flying Spider Day (a week last Monday was Flying Ant Day) when enormous numbers of spiders put out a trailing piece of web silk and float along on the breeze. I have not seen it in other countries I have lived.

That gives me the willies!

 

[oldpilgrim]

If you live in MA you'll need to get a state, pet spider permit.

Before you can get the permit, you'll need to take a pet spider safety course taught by a certified pet spider safety instructor.

Then you will need to submit your course certificate to the local chief of police along with the proper application, the $100 non refundable fee, and a proper reason for wanting a pet spider. You will then begin the waiting period for your permit to be issued. The local chief will submit it to the State Police where a background check will be performed and then they will send it off to the state capital where you will be entered into the Criminal History Systems Board computer as an applicant for a pet spider permit.

Keep in mind that your application must, by law, be acted on in 40 days or less, but it could be up to 6 months or so before you will hear if you've been approved for a right to keep a pet spider.

When the application has been returned to the Chief, he can still deny you your pet spider permit if he, for any reason decides you are an 'unsuitable' person to keep a pet spider. Before you can actually get a pet spider, you must register the purchase with the CSHB.

If you are lucky enough to get such a permit, you agree to keep the pet spider under lock and key in an approved manner.

Should the pet spider somehow get loose, you can, and most likely will be arrested and charged for improper storage of a pet spider.

You don't live in MA? Well, open the window and let it in, or squash it and not worry about it.

 

[wrenchrider]

Oldpilgrim forgot to mention that the spiders meals must be accompanied by a federally approved nutrition label. And if it starts barking at night you may be arrested for disturbing the peace, especially if it can be heard over the "boom-boxes' going down the road.

 

[Threepoint]

About 20 or 25 years ago I was taking a walk at lunchtime in downtown D.C. and wandered into an elaborate special exhibit on arachnids at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Wow! The intricacy of behaviors and the level of industriousness of so many different species was a complete revelation to me. I've always been fascinated by spiders, but that exhibit took it to a whole new level. Call me crazy, but to this day I'll do my best to avoid disturbing the little guys. If they're in the house or barn where they shouldn't be, I'll invariably gather them up and carry them outside rather than kill them!

 

[k0ua]

If you live in MA you'll need to get a state, pet spider permit.

Before you can get the permit, you'll need to take a pet spider safety course taught by a certified pet spider safety instructor.

Then you will need to submit your course certificate to the local chief of police along with the proper application, the $100 non refundable fee, and a proper reason for wanting a pet spider. You will then begin the waiting period for your permit to be issued. The local chief will submit it to the State Police where a background check will be performed and then they will send it off to the state capital where you will be entered into the Criminal History Systems Board computer as an applicant for a pet spider permit.

Keep in mind that your application must, by law, be acted on in 40 days or less, but it could be up to 6 months or so before you will hear if you've been approved for a right to keep a pet spider.

When the application has been returned to the Chief, he can still deny you your pet spider permit if he, for any reason decides you are an 'unsuitable' person to keep a pet spider. Before you can actually get a pet spider, you must register the purchase with the CSHB.

If you are lucky enough to get such a permit, you agree to keep the pet spider under lock and key in an approved manner.

Should the pet spider somehow get loose, you can, and most likely will be arrested and charged for improper storage of a pet spider.

You don't live in MA? Well, open the window and let it in, or squash it and not worry about it.

Wow!, you don't paint a very pretty picture for spider friendship in Ma.!:laughing: Looks like keeping a spider might be pretty rough there.

 

[cqaigy2]

Oldpilgrim forgot to mention that the spiders meals must be accompanied by a federally approved nutrition label. And if it starts barking at night you may be arrested for disturbing the peace, especially if it can be heard over the "boom-boxes' going down the road.

His acronym got rearranged in the telling, from CHSB to CSHB but i think he meant CHBS.

 

[oldpilgrim]

Yup I might have mixed up the letters, but any reader from Ma will know exactly what my post describes.

 

[Danno1]

Yup I might have mixed up the letters, but any reader from Ma will know exactly what my post describes.

Aaaay-yup!!!



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[SPIKER]

Had a LOT of garden spiders as pets as kids and also as an adult been known to go out of my way to give them a free meal or two Back in the 90's when I was stationed in California I had a pet Black Widow (they were all over the base) and SHE lived in a 1 gallon wine jar that was left in my room. I caught her off the outside water spigot the first week I was there. Kept her for 2 years fed well with flys and or ants that were everywhere too. About every 3 or 4 weeks I would have to use a long stick to pull out an egg sac and flush it after hitting it with hot water. When I left I took her and her home out into away from all of the base housing area & found her a great place to live out rest of her life in the wild...

Those BW webs are nothing like the ones of Garden Spiders or other large organized web builders..

M

 

[texasjohn]

I'lll bet it's a female, look for a much smaller male in the area, and an egg sack after a while. I 've got them all around.