To appreciate why Kendal Crawford couldn’t have been more pleased to get a pair of tiny handmade cars for her birthday, we need to go back to when she and her partner Shaun Stephens-Whale decided to adopt a pet.
I know what you mean there as well. I was always very arachnophobic but over the last few years have mostly gotten over it by treating the spiders in my house as something like hands-off pets and giving them names. Jumping spiders are amazing little creatures but, yeah, the lifespan makes them a non-starter.
If you like sci-fi, check out the Children of Time series. It’s about a race of uplifted jumping spiders. The author does a great job of building a concept of their society based on their current characteristics as a species.
I keep seeing jumping spiders that look to die for and then the reality check of their lifespans always brings me back down.
I know what you mean there as well. I was always very arachnophobic but over the last few years have mostly gotten over it by treating the spiders in my house as something like hands-off pets and giving them names. Jumping spiders are amazing little creatures but, yeah, the lifespan makes them a non-starter.
If you like sci-fi, check out the Children of Time series. It’s about a race of uplifted jumping spiders. The author does a great job of building a concept of their society based on their current characteristics as a species.