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Anette
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Post subject: The Spook is gone...  Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:35 pm |
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It had to happen at some point that some of our first (and most loved) tarantulas move on the big pasture where gravy covered crickets run wild.
This one hurts a bit more than usual.
Spook, our first A.avic, has left for the big journey.
She was our third tarantula ever, and I got her already as an adult from Chris (Krazy8s) in 2005. He had raised her from a wee little s'ling.
So she must have been somewhere in the 10+ years age range, pretty good for an arboreal.
She had slowed down over the last few months, and I found her dead this morning.
I'll post a few pictures from the good days later, but you can see her cute toes in my avatar picture.
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:47 pm |
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Aww, I'm sorry Anette. Hang in there.
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Anette
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:04 am |
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Just found one of her cuter pictures  Here is her cool home - I never changed her container, so she lived in this tube until she died. She just kept adding and improving!  And yes, she did have a busy dating life 
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:29 am |
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Sorry she is gone my friend. What delightful photos of her enjoying life. Thanks for sharing those with us.
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:02 am |
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I'm sorry for your loss. Awesome pictures, thank you for sharing.
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:47 pm |
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Awww so sorry about Spook. she lived a happy, fulfilled life in your care. She is now making her web on some tree trunk up in tarantula heaven 
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:29 pm |
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Awwww....my deepest sympathies, Auntie A. It's so hard losing the ones that have been with us for so long. Such lovely pictures...she was a real beauty.
*hugs*
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Anette
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:35 pm |
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Thanks for the kind words, everyone.
Since she had been with me this long I have quite a few stories to tell about her, maybe around the campfire at the ATS Con...
It was just odd to wander into the spider room this morning (yes, picture me in a robe & fuzzy slippers and a cup of tea in my hands), and say Good Morning to everyone, just to notice the big empty space where her large enclosure had been. It's a BIG empty space, both on the shelf and in my heart....
Now I have to figure out who is "worthy" enough to move into that space.
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:24 am |
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I'm so sorry, Anette! She was beautiful. I have no doubt she led quite a charmed life with you. *hugs*
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:16 am |
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I'm so sorry, Annette! She was indeed a beauty. I look forward to hearing Spook stories.
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:22 am |
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Very sad to read this news Auntie A!!! (((Bigg Huggs)))She was very pretty.!!
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:51 am |
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Sorry for your loss... I just got a A. Urticans and i hope he or she is with me for that long....
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:06 am |
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I think its really neat that you never did anything with her enclosure. The webbing looks amazing! Sorry to hear shes gone.
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Post subject: Re: The Spook is gone... Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:10 pm |
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Aw, Anette, I am so sorry to see this. I am so sad for you.  Spook is most definitely in tarantula heaven right now making the most fantastic web tube mansion and chomping on tasty teriyaki crickets. HUGS!!!
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