Originally Posted by RS_Matt

This is my biggest cat 1yo Ludo with my 3yo son.

Cat is 22lbs, little lad is 31lbs.



As I type he's laid outside the little lad's bedroom.

Originally Posted by Turbohot

Good pic, Matt. M'Coons are quite big, I know.

Not all breeds are large, though. Domestic cat is generally a small creature; well, unless it's a real lion or a tiger i.e. big cat. I bet even your big domestic Coon doesn't have the fierce characteristics of a big cat or your little son wouldn't be rolling around on the floor with him.

In all honesty, generally, cats aren't that braveheart to give crocodile a run for his tears. :

Originally Posted by jameswrx

As there's some spider knowledge going on here, what do you guys think about Tube web spiders?

I have a female as a pet.

I was at work one day, sat outside having my lunch.. In the wall next to me was a couple of nice round holes with a nice tube shape web. I picked up a little stick and touched it on the outside expecting a tiny spider to maybe appear, but a Tube web spider shot out and grabbed the stick and made me jump about a foot in the air!

Obviously I had no idea what it was at first, I noticed their shed exo inside and the metallic green fangs, googled it and found they were tube web spiders.

Kept me amused for a while as we had an influx of huge house spiders stuck in the sink and I'd take them out to the Tube web spider and feed away.

I decided it'd be a good idea to keep one of them as a pet and get me over my fear of spiders (yep that's right) so I bought a little spider viv and a perfect tube etc. Getting one out of a deep hole in the wall isn't easy lol. There was three grown men all squealing like children as we tried to get her out.

I can't believe how aggressive they are! And also, not seen the behaviour online but my female reacts just like a Funnel Web spider. When we got her out of the hole and into a tub, she faked death exactly like a Funnel web, she went on her side and pretended to be dead. Put a stick near her and she jumped up into an aggressive pose with legs extended up. Put anything near her and she'll bite it.

I thought she was dead the other day and very gently touched her with a plastic comb handle (the thin barbers shop handle'd one) and she instantly went into her angry pose and bit the comb so hard I picked her up by her fangs!! She wouldn't let got for ages.

I feed her other spiders and crickets.

The male was even more aggressive back at work I'd have tug of wars with other spiders with him lol.