We lost our precious Anansi today. She'd been showing symptoms of DKS and it looked like things were progressing in a bad way. We wrapped her gently and put her in the freezer as a humane euthanasia. We couldn't bear to see her look so unwell.
Anansi was me and Shaun's first child together. He used to be afraid of spiders, but my logic was that he couldn't be afraid of his own child, and it worked. We got her when she was only the size of a dime. She grew into adult size and lived with us for 11 years.
I know many of y'all don't view creatures the way I do, and she wasn't cuddly like a cat or dog, but she is already missed. I look over at her house and she's not there, and it's an empty feeling. She was a beautiful and sweet tarantula and I'm sad that she is gone.
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