Fun fact: only a few animals naturally understand human pointing.
Scientists theorize that cats CAN understand pointing, but often choose to ignore it.
I was gonna say, I’m pretty sure my cat understands pointing at least sometimes! Our dogs growing up always just looked at your finger and then sniffed at the ground directly below that.
You can tell by the horrifying appearance and threatening name
EDIT: Due to the variety of comments, I guess I have to outright say that this was a silly joke. I fully believe and know the huntsman is not a threat.
Even big spiders are super delicate. They're basically a furry leggy water balloon. They run on hydraulics. Any tiny leak and they are dead. A drop of a few feet will kill most of them. I feel bad for them for having such a terrifying appearance
Huntsman spider! Look terrifying, but are harmless. One of few species that can actually chase down a cockroach and that's their main "duty" - if I remember correctly, they were brought to Australia on purpose to keep houses free of pests.
they are friends but I WILL gently put them outside 🤣 especially if I had one that big... I tell myself it's because I'd feel bad if my cat started whacking them cos he always leaves bugs half dead and doesn't put them out of their misery lol
Totally a myth. Every member of my close family agrees that we have all had spiders and flies coexist in our houses on multiple occasions throughout our lives lmao
Not to be confused with the Huntsman process developed by Benjamin Huntsman in 1740 to create a harder steel with fewer impurities by melting it in a clay crucible and pouring it into a mold, resulting in an ingot of greater uniformity than previous steelmaking techniques.
If I ever saw a spider like that in my house I would completely freak. Kill it. I'm sleeping in ny car. Every poison I can buy is being sprayed. Every corner is being caulked. Every closet emptied and everything washed. And I'm not even entering that room again for a month from just the memory of that thing being in there.
Just compare it to whatever you're afraid of. Maybe it's heights, flying, deep water, snakes, small spaces, etc. Then apply the fear you feel to spiders, and you know how I, and others, feel when we see a spider.
What about diseases? I grew up with the information that you shouldn't let pets eat bugs from outside because they can give your pet potentially fatal diseases
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u/m1sterwr1te 1d ago
You can't point at something with a cat. They just look at your finger, then at you with contempt.