gillbear Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 (edited) My heart is still racing. I was engrossed in my computer when my dog Bart started bouncing and leaping around beside me. Bart usually sleeps under my computer chair. I looked down expecting to see a lizard when I spotted a male funnell web spider not 10cm from my foot. So now we have captured a new resident for the reptile park and I will be insect bombing the house and yard tomorrow. Sorry spidey's, love you but I cant risk more Funnell Webs. Thank god Bart wasnt bitten, there will be extra chicken necks for him tonight. Edited March 18, 2010 by gillbear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Good dog!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all that glitters Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Ahhhh!!! We just had a massive huntsman on the car windscreen on the drive home, my blood ran cold and my hands went numb in fear until I realized it was on the outside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim'sMum Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 From a Qld Govt. fact sheet on Funnel Webs....it states that the neurotoxins injected by Funnel Webs affects humans and other primates but has little effect on dogs and cats. I had heard that before, so just checked to make sure I was correct. I wouldn't worry so much about the dog Gillbear....but more so for you and any other humans in the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gretel Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Yes they are not a problem for dogs but you were lucky! A friend used to live at Lane Cove and she had them in the house often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabs Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Dogs are very resilient to spider bites. Rather spiders then snakes! When we lived many moons ago in the Blue Mountains the place was crawling with them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gretel Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Dogs are very resilient to spider bites. Rather spiders then snakes! When we lived many moons ago in the Blue Mountains the place was crawling with them! When my kids were little and before we had aircond we decided to go up to Blackheath pool for the day to escape the heat. We'd been there a short time when a girl sitting just near us was bitten by a funnel web. She was hysterical - poor girl. Made us a bit edgy while we were there.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooper Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Is it a particularly bad year for funnel webs? An old school-mate on the Central Coast has found three in her house this summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbear Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 Well that makes me feel better that the dogs arent in danger from them. I have lived on the coast for years and this is the first time I have seen one in my yard or house. I think it must have actually crawled onto Bart while he was asleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormie Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I've never seen a live funnel web before I'd really like to... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monah Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Put me off my breakfast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rastus_froggy Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Pretty sure we don't have them in my area thank goodness! I just have a nasty huge slug infestation at my place at the moment. It is rather disgusting, my house is old so they come through the floor boards and out from under the cupboards. So this morning i tipped a heap of salt all over the floor then swept it under the cupboards, yeah gross I know but better than stepping on slugs in the dark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benny123 Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I've never seen a live funnel web before I'd really like to... Come down to the Southern Highlands....this place is crawling with them (pardon the pun). It was particularly bad after the heavy rain we had recently, they all got flooded out of the holes and were running everywhere including inside the house (as well as a small tiger snake) I think I'll write to council and suggest that, in the tradition of the big banana and the big pineapple, we have the big funnel web at the turn off on the Hume Hwy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripley Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Yep, all the rain had driven them out. I live in a funnel web favourite area of Sydney. We have one in the front yard under a place where we know and isn't anywhere guests will go, I've left her alone as only the males roam. I just know where she is, so that's a good thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee lee Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Yep, all the rain had driven them out. I live in a funnel web favourite area of Sydney. We have one in the front yard under a place where we know and isn't anywhere guests will go, I've left her alone as only the males roam. I just know where she is, so that's a good thing But don't the males go roaming looking for females? That would give me the willies. When I was a kid living on the northern beaches, there was a plague of them and it was the early days of them developing the anti-venom. People were dying from the bites. We would find them in our backyard on a daily basis. I can only imagine how worried my parents would have been. So Im with Gillbear- out with the buggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simply Grand Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I just have a nasty huge slug infestation at my place at the moment. It is rather disgusting, my house is old so they come through the floor boards and out from under the cupboards. So this morning i tipped a heap of salt all over the floor then swept it under the cupboards, yeah gross I know but better than stepping on slugs in the dark AAAAAAAHHHH! That's my nightmare, I HAAATE slugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poodlecrazy Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I got bitten by a funnel web about 3 weeks ago very scary my arm started with a small red ball ended up like a large tennis ball with a red line going through it thats what I was watching its the posion going through your body I'm now very scared of webs spiders anything that crawls before they didn't really bother me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lab_Rat Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I dont like bitey spideys either!!! We dont have funnel webs, but we do get mouse spiders - the next best thing .......specially the red-headed mouse spider. They just look venomous! They seem to like being alone though and Ive never seen one anywhere near the house, just in the bush. They can stay there! Rat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripley Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Those ugly big house spiders are often confused for funnel webs too. I had a few of them too close to the front door so they had to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zacamin Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I would have had a heart attack if I'd seen it near my foot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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