Hey again, Last night we had a bit of a scare with my boy Hugo. For some reason the spiders in our house have been really bad. They are big and ugly. There was one on the floor of the ferret room so I called my husband in to take care of the problem. Well he whacked it, and whacked it good. As we were preparing to clean up the carnage Hugo came along and ate it. YUCK. but whatever, it can't be to bad for him. It turns out I was wrong, whether the spider was not dead and bit him in his mouth or further along or the guts of the spider were poisonous I just don't know. Less than 5 minutes from Hugo eating the spider he starts heaving. Up comes the spider and white foam. He is obviously very uncomfortable, running around trying to hide. He goes into a clear tube and is still heaving and up comes more white foam. I got him out of the tube so I could get to him easily. From there he bolts into the black PVC tubing. I can still hear him heaving and running back and forth. I was getting scared now. It took a while to get him out of the tubes and into a room where he could not hide from me. I tried to look into his mouth and did not see anything turning red or swelling. So I put him down and he kept heaving. One last time a bunch of white foam, from there on he was fine. A lot of rubbing his chin on the floor but no more heaves or throwing up. This whole scene took 15 - 20 min. I have no idea what kind of spider it was, but we do have a fair number of them. That is not a good thing. Scary, but he is his ferret self again. Sukie's Meeteetse pointed out : >WHY FERRETS ARE BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE is: "We can kiss you and sneeze at >the same time without even slowing down!" Oh boy how true, I am starting to think that Taos (The anti -ferret) is allergic to my kisses. I will pick her up to kiss and love her and return I get ferret boogers, lots of them. She sneezes every time I kiss her. Well that is it for now Sue and her frenzy of 5 Izzy - Mom Make Taos stop biting me Hugo - I don't think I like Spider bon-bons any more Elbert - Being bald is not so bad with this summer heat Sammie - It's only fun to jump on you calf when you are wearing shorts Taos - What is time-out and why am I the only one to get it. a-choo! [Posted in FML issue 2369]