Some parts of the ecosystem belong outdoors.

[azurelunatic]

Purple's commandments for spiders:

Thou shalt not move way too fast.
Thou shalt not be on Purple.
Thou shalt not be on Purple's delicate electronics.
Thou shalt not be way too hairy.
Thou shalt not jump!

This spider was way too in his office, but otherwise inoffensive. We'll be
releasing it outside later.

Spider-watching is fairly lousy entertainment, but decent survival skills.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Release successful!

[azurelunatic]

This release model was the "tap the cup on the path light a few times" sort, not the waterfall or way too agile with the waving arms and screaming "get it off me get it off me".

[inoru_no_hoshi]

Purple's commandments for spiders should be enforced on the macro-scale (i.e., everyone and everywhere).

I especially heartily agree that spiders do not belong on people. Ever.

(I'm not saying letting your pet tarantula or whatever crawl on you should be illegal, I'm just saying I will never be the sort of person who allows this. Or owns a pet tarantula, for that matter.)

[azurelunatic]

He noticed the spider crawling across the outside of his office window (he has an inside office, so it looks out on the cube farm). I tried to catch it and failed. It scurried inside his office. Then he spotted it crawling up the wall. We watched it across the ceiling and into the air intake. Then he saw it on the wall, and we watched it down, across the inside of the window, and into the hall. Whereupon I captured it.

He mentioned that if he'd been alone, he might have just squished it, but given that I was evidently determined to set it free outside, he would go along with that.