Steve Backshall Tonight !

[mikey4444]

Another barnstorming hour from Steve tonight ( ITC 1, 20:00 )

But I just wish he wouldn't give me heart failure every Tuesday ! This time he had a bloody great bird-eating spider crawling all over his hands !

At that point, I hid behind the curtains. For Gods sake Steve...play safely !

I warn anybody that wants to watch this program on the iplayer, that if they are even a trifle arachnophobic, then don't watch this alone !

http://www.itv.com/hub/fierce/2a4001a0002

Episode two is the one tonight.

[-Talbot-]

Delicious roasted ... apparently.

[mikey4444]

That bloody spider .....I shall have nightmares tonight !

[wolf63]

When I got my old cat I was wakened one morning to him sitting on a pillow crunching a spider that was still moving. After finishing his snack he demanded his breakfast.

[Zacs-Master]

I've had a female tarantula crawl across my hand. Could hardly feel she was there.

[wolf63]

If I know snakes and spiders are not going to kill me I would be okay. I think.

[mikey4444]

Wolfie...that spider last night was the size of a dinner plate, and yes, it would have killed you !

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=giant+tarantula&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:%7Breferrer:source%3F%7D&rlz=1I7ADFA_en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&;sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJ3_C-oa7MAhXFCcAKHQPNDYgQ_AUIBygB&biw=1024&bih=726

[aelmpvw]

//Delicious roasted ... apparently.//

and everyone gets to have a leg

[mikey4444]

Please don't !

[wolf63]

Mikey

Frankie says that it would be too big for him but his sister Merlin could take it on no problem.

[retrocop]

Its the little blighters you have to watch. The funnel webs and trapdoors!! Apparently there is/was a colony of Tarantulas living happily at Ongar (Ithink) underground station some years ago.

[mikey4444]

Wolfie....lol !

[retrocop]

Not Tarantulas but arachnids just the same. These were what I read about back in the 70s at Ongar station but it was a hoax by the Station Master.
Looks like they survive elsewhere in the UK though.
http://www.jasonsteelwildlifephotography.yolasite.com/uk-scorpions.php

[wolf63]

Guys - since I do not have dangly bits this is not going to happen to me.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-bitten-penis-venomous-redback-7842776#rlabs=21%20rt$category%20p$4

:-)

[mushroom25]

seems to me that whoever it is - whether Steve backshall, austin stevens, (late great) steve Irwin, or mark o'shea - all these action man wildlife presenters take delight in goading their subject while it patiently asks them to "GO AWAY", and then they act all surprised when the subject goes after them.....

[wolf63]

Mushroom - there are many videos of cats going nuts at the vet on YouTube. Most of them have been 'encouraged' to attack. The cats warn the stupid human that they are not happy and want to be left alone - only to be prodded or something. Then they go mental and everyone starts laughing.

My little Princess Merlin is pretty stupid and has a short fuse. She lost the plot, with no prodding, last time we were at the vet. It was impressive and a bit scary. I didn't know that you could get a muzzle for a cat.

[mikey4444]

Wolfie....you should see my Little Willy at the Vets....he turns into Cujo.

We had to change Vets a few years ago, as he threatened to shoot him with one of those tranquiliser darts in the carpark, that they use on wildlife, before examining him ! And he's only a bloody Yorkie !

[wolf63]

Thanks for cheering me up Mikey. Your last vet might have been a bit unprofessional but it must get tiring.

The problem with little hounds is that they seem to move much too fast and you can't get a good grip on them. I would like something the size of a German Shepherd.

Like us humans dogs and cats act differently when they are scared (ie at the vet). Frankie howls and purrs loudly but Princess Merlin attacks.

I have used the same vets practice since I was in my early teens and was sent by my mother to get Shaka, our cat, patched up after being in the was. That will be nearly 40 years.

Willy sounds feisty.