While many people in the world simply move out and sell their home, an Australian (very rooted) proves that he is a shambles of abstraction by deciding to keep a free-spirited spider indoors as a “pet”. has reached a new level. Jake Gray creates a hunting spider inside the house to avoid cockroach pests, and the little animal even has a name: Charlotte.
Case in point in the new and won social network in 2020 before the pandemic, when Gray posted an image of a “pet” on the Australian Spider Identification page, a Facebook group in Australia dedicated to sharing pictures of spiders seen in homes of people.
Gray’s post soon became popular with a group of about 73,000 people, and some even considered the possibility that the situation was fake news, or even an exaggeration of the man. However, earlier this year, Gray spoke to the US portal IFL Science to confirm the spider was “adopted” and provide more details about the case.
“Hunter spiders have always been accepted in our household, especially when they eat cockroaches, and we have chosen not to use chemicals to kill any pests,” Gray said.
According to the Australian, the idea of giving the spider a name and treating it as a “pet” originated in an attempt to pacify the two children in relation to the spider. “The last time we saw Charlotte, it was about 12 months ago, and now she’s all grown up,” the man says.
Gray also said that seeing Charlotte eat the Asian house gecko (an Australian version of the popular Brazilian gecko) was the “high point” of her relationship with the spider.
Hunting Spider Risks and Care
IFL Science Portal to ecologists and spider experts, Linda S. Rare explained that Hunting Spiders don’t typically attack humans and details what to do if you find one (spoiler: don’t breed like a pet).
“If you meet a species, you have to do two things. The first is to control yourself, it won’t hurt you. The second is to take a bowl and take the spider back to nature. They rarely kill humans.” bites, because they prefer to run to escape predators. And even when they do bite, most bites have sharp, defensive nipples, without injecting venom,” he explains. .
