For as long as I can remember, if we see a big, hairy, spider in the house, we call it Boris. Nothing to do with politics, its kind of a tradition. I don’t see him very often, but as the nights cool down he tends to scurry across the floor (might be a she?). I think there is a mating season for spiders. The only problem is the cats, they are quite expert at catching spiders (mainly in the bathroom) if Boris was to be spied by one of the cats, we’ll I wouldn’t give him much of a chance of escape. There is something about the look on the cats face, concentration, anticipation, that does not bode well for any spiders in the vicinity.
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Mallaband-Brown 
Another great song by The Who. ❤
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Oh! I didn’t know! I’m not very good on music. That explains it!
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You didn’t know the song “Boris the Spider” before?? But how did you know there was a “Boris the Spider” reference?
My other post probably doesn’t make much sense now I’ve realised you didn’t know the song.
“There he is wrapped in a ball
Doesn’t seem to move at all
Perhaps he’s dead, I’ll just make sure
Pick this book up off the floor…
He’s come to a sticky end
Don’t think he will ever mend
Never more will he crawl ’round
He’s embedded in the ground”
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My hubby has heard if it but very vaguely. Sounds fun. I think I got it from my mom, she used to call spiders Boris too… Xxx
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“Perhaps he’s dead, I’ll just make sure…Pick this book up off the floor” (THWACK)
Know it’s cruel but we take out massive house spiders with the tiny little raisin sized bodies and legs longer than a racehorse wearing boots, tattoos and job lot. Awful. Worse now we’re into Autumn and the cheeky sods are trying to move in cos it’s cold out.
To avoid causing panic or letting my dog know there’s a spider (she’s gross and plays with them / picks them up in her mouth and throws them all over like a cruel cat with a mouse) my daughter and I casually announce “Making its way down town.. walking fast.. faces past it’s home-bound” and the other freezes “OH GOD WHERE?”
Nicer than the honest but brutal Boris the Spider. Has to be done though. It’s either a quick smash and flatten or a trip to the hoover cylinder but I’d rather do the smash and flatten so it’s over and done with for all concerned.
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Ew! My hubby squashes slugs, but I think they are there for the blackbirds, at least we don’t use pellets…. I’m letting my Boris live….
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Naww good for you! 🙂 We have blackbirds at ours forever pecking and throwing bits of moss and grass around at my window looking for worms and slugs. I love snails and like tonight when it’s tipping down with rain I can’t go outside without a torch picking up and moving snails for fear of stepping on one. Sometimes I think I’m doing one a favour, go to move him and realise he’s not home – birds already got him and I’m all “Ooh he’s been eaten!!! Oh poor thing!! OK we can chuck the shell away he’s vacated the premises” *Clunk* into the nearest bin or bucket.
Hannah came home with a fledgling she found in a field whilst out with the dogs a while back. Pretty sure it was dragged and clawed by a cat but she scooped him up, carried him home and nearly broke her heart wanting to save him.
Then she realised he needed bugs, grubs (not worms – creepy-crawly woodlouse type grubs) AND she would need to feed them to him every couple of hours with tweezers.
She did it in all fairness – managed to get him on the mend and he still hangs out at ours but her face with those tweezers and a bug on the end “No!!! Please!!!!”
Like the shrimps from Shark Tale.
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Amazing! We’ve got frogs in our pond so I think they do some removal work, and we had a hedgehog and a fox too. This where two terraced houses were knocked down years ago. X
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Ooooh make some hedgehog hotels out of bits of sticks, stones, old wooden pallets or whatever is lying around. I LOVE creating hedgehog hotels.
Few round here do not like foxes and one cruel sod set a trap to kill it cos he didn’t want it getting at his chickens. Granted they do rip chickens apart but it was one of those old, horrible traps that just clamp and take off their leg leaving them to die horribly for no reason. Wouldn’t mind but the fox hadn’t even been near or bothered the chickens he’d been told by another guy they saw a young fox trotting back and forth in the field behind.
He’s one of those “Oh you’re only getting upset cos you’re a soft-headed woman that thinks foxes are cute you have no bloody idea what we have to put up with!!”
Me later that same day – went on a hunt near the old barns / cattle sheds at the farm, found and dragged out a big roll of wire / mesh, covered the entire allotment over the chickens to stop any animals getting at them (day or night) had Mark install one of my solar motion sensor lights to go off whenever something moved outside the pens after dark. Then found and got rid of that sodding trap, tossed it into the back of a van belonging to a neighbour who takes unwanted stuff and weighs in the scrap metal for cash and went back to Mr Chicken Expert “OK job done and dusted. Trap is gone cos my dog nearly stepped in it. Chickens now safe and covered in mesh. Light outside the pens so any sneaky foxes with wire cutters and hi-tech equipment are scared off by it coming on. You’re welcome… dickhead”
Horrible 😦 Killing and harming animals just because I will not have.
Hedgehogs love the hotels though you definitely need to make a few and attract Yorkshire hogs.
Hogs are great 😀
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We have old piles of logs from cutting back bits of trees. We have a hedge along the side so they can get through. Probably how the fox got in. X
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