Hey! It's been sunny recently so Sara says she's going to take me outside today for a little bit - so I'm not sure what I'll be able to do - but hopefully this week we'll get to see a bit more of Orange.
Anyways, earlier this week Sara was doing a whole bunch of laundry and after sundown she walked into the laundry room. Quickly turned back around and showed me what she saw...
A juvenile tarantula... they're common in houses down in Australia and usually people don't mind them so long as they leave you alone, you'll leave them alone. They're prone to kill other nasties that come into the house. But Sara said this one seemed a bit too comfortable, and when her husband came back in the house - they let it outside. It was kinda freaky. Although she told me, not the biggest one they've had in the house... Sara doesn't like spiders, but usually doesn't kill them... but tarantulas are pretty harmless usually. :-)
Then yesterday something exciting happened. Sara was cleaning out the cage as normal, and then looked into the nest and only saw three eggs. Thinking one of them was unfertile it must have been eaten or something. But then she saw a little baby in there... I tried to get a photo with me and the baby but Patches (the mom) wouldn't allow that...
Patches and Squeak (the parents) are happy to have Sara and Daniel around but get really defensive with anything they've not seen as often, or before... so here's what she was defending...
You can see the little baby in the front - the hatchling fell out of the nest, and into Sara's hand (Sara was holding her hand out - it was coming too close to falling out). Then they put the hatchling back in the nest, and since then, another has hatched and they're both around - so that's a good sign so far. :-) Wish us luck!
