Recent content by Dawn

Well actually, tonight, she has successfully walked with her abdomen up AND she has climbed over a rolled up towel, the edge of my inversion table, and gotten herself out of a couple tight spots in the room all on her own! I let the room really warm up today so its like 78 degrees in there so...

Well, it has been awhile so I thought I would update everyone. She is definitely moving around a lot better, although still not lifting her body and walking but instead dragging it but her legs are way more active now. She still will not eat on her own though no matter how much I try to get...

It was already clear you had this mindset/value system from an earlier post. Notice I didn't engage it then. Why? Because saying that NOW does nothing to help my current dilemma. I actually agree with you. But I did, right or wrong, and now I have this little creature that I'm trying to get...

Oh boy.... don't think I have the time to do that! HA HA HA! Would be pretty cool. I have another crazy story.... I had what I thought was one crab spider in my house for the longest time and since I love spiders, and they hunt the bugs in the house without making webs, I just left it. Would...

Yes, I am VERY concerned about the molting. She definitely would not survive that now. That is one reason why, if she can begin to eat on her own, I should probably not feed her a lot until she gets more faculties about her. I don't know much about tarantulas (although reading incessantly...

Thanks... it really is tough. I wrestle with this all the time. I live pretty far out of town and see creatures get in trouble a lot... should you intervene? It is actually a very deep topic. I'm have a PhD in conservation psychology and go to these "environmental ethics" meetings with...

Well, it was bad enough that I intervened with nature. I typically do NOT do this... it was just the sheer number of tarantulas I witnessed with these tarantula hawks this year - it was unprecedented. I've never seen so many flying around and worse seeing two drug off before her. I had a...

Well, it's been a few days so I thought I'd give y'all an update. Everything is pretty much the same except she covers a lot more ground now at night. In about a two hour period she might move between 10-15 feet total. Still can't walk and hold her body weight yet but instead of moving one...

Well, she is starting to motor around!!!!! Last night total distance was probably about six feet. Slow... but she is moving. She can't hold her body up yet and move - she is just dragging herself along the ground. And, to get her going I have to do some physical therapy with her legs and...

It took that tarantula 4 weeks from sting to walking. They motivated theirs by putting a live meal worm on it. I'm somewhat doing the same with gentle stimulation and light blowing. But she isn't moving her mouth parts at all yet. She is barely... and I mean barely walking. Does better with...

Hello everyone! I'm not normally one to intervene in nature but after having two other tarantulas stung by those darn wasps and hauled off, when I saw the third one I just had to intervene. I have been following this thread on another site, where one was successfully rehabilitated...