And the Spider Said

I was fixing one of my french glass doors because one of my dogs has a soft long coat so he blows a lot of coat (which might be nice if I wanted to knit it into something) but I don't knit. He is long hair german shepard combined with An Australian Border Collie where the really fine warm hair comes from. So, he looks like if you mixed a German Shepard in  coloring with a
Collie in body type more but has also been the smartest dog I ever met even though he is now 15 1/2 years old and is slipping mentally a big and his right back leg doesn't work that well so he has a little trouble getting up when laying down.

So, as I cleaned out his very fine hair from the bottom where the glass wooden door goes into the floor from the outside I noticed with my glasses on(finally) why this door wasn't completelu shutting at the base all winter. So, I went down to my shop and got enough tools to fix this.

So, I thought I spied a dead spider that was about an inch across with legs spread out and likely a jumping wolf spider and touched the web and found he was alive an living near my outer hinge for one of the two french doors I was working on. Then I noticed three more spiders around the door outside with one dead and two alive. One of the smaller ones made mind contact with me and said telpathically, "You are our spider God!" and I thought about this and then thought about what I spider would think and realize this correlated with what the spider was actually saying to me.

I said telepathically back to the spider, "I'm not a spider!" and the spider said, "Duh! But we don't have any way to define you as something other than being a giant spider."

I thought about this and it made complete sense to me knowing what a spider (who has never been to school or on the internet might actually think). So, when I get information from a plant or animal I try to double check for accuracy because I believe inter-species communication is very important to the survival of all life forms on earth both now and into the future.

Note:

I have developed an ethical way to deal with spiders over the years. It all started when I was a Fire Lookout in the mid 1980s for CDF in California about 10 miles away on the peak of a mountain from the nearest human being across several cattle ranges and ponds and around giant Wild Boar often. But I wasn't allowed a rifle to protect myself because past lookouts had gone boar hunting and the cattle ranchers got pissed. So, I had to be very careful without a weapon at this lookout this far away from potential help from a human being.

The way I deal with spider now is that I realized that I don't want mosquitos to give me a disease even though mosquitos are not usually common here that much on the coast of California. Spiders eat mosquitos that they catch in their webs outside and inside. So, I don't allow spider webs inside my house but I do allow certain spiders like Daddy longlegs to be here until they are about 1 inch across because they are so poisonous they kill and eat all the other spiders. Then I usher them outside. However, here's the thing with Daddy Longlegs, their mandibles cannot pierce human skin because they are too small and weak but they can easily kill another spider because they are the most poisonous spider in the U.S.

So, they are useful to us if you leave a few of them and maybe a mosquito eater inside if they want to kill any mosquitos that come inside your house. But, if Daddy longlegs were poisonous and their mandibles could bite through human skin all humans would already be extinct likely in the U.S. or we would have killed them all (one of the two). Since a Daddy Longlegs cannot bite me or you and they are kind of fragile with those extremely long legs I usually just pick up a daddy longlegs by cupping my hands and holding them inside to usher them outside.

However, wolf spiders I catch in a cup with a piece of paper over the mouth of the cup and then I take the spiders out into my backyard so if they can survive out there they can live. So, I don't kill spiders unless they are Recluse spiders or Black Widow Spiders both of which can be deadly to humans. It's sort of like rattlesnakes. You don't want them around people or children because soon someone is bit and in the hospital or they are dead. So, you have two choices only to either kill them (any way you safely can) or if you are an expert you can take away rattlesnakes to a wilder area. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who can afford to keep Brown Recluse Spiders or black widow spiders alive around where they live. Because even if one is left it might maim or kill a member of your family or a neighbor.