I live in a basement apartment. Soon the little darlings will be showing up indoors. I like spiders and enjoy watching them in their natural habitat. Soon as they come in MY natural habitat I spray them to death every week. (I know Raid is not nice, I KNOW.) However, despite the daddy long legs being an extremely poisonous member of spiderdom, I'm aware they can't bite humans, so I always take them outside before the Raid.

As SRS pointed out, the tarantulas in North America are pretty cool. They are wonderful to watch because indeed they are 'tame', although they are not friendly. The year I took two as pets was the years I first ever saw a live tarantula. There were literally hundreds of them crossing the mountain highway my buddy and I were travelling. He said it had been so dry that they were likely descending to get to the Stanislaus River and hence water. I watched one of the tarantulas 'hunt' a grasshopper I'd put in the cage I made for them (the cage was about five feet by three feet by two feet high). I'd placed a BIG live grasshopper in there and the one I called Stanislaus went from one end of the cage to the other in what I can only describe as a slow blur. He turned that insect which started out as a plump three inch grasshopper into the cubed remains of the exoskeleton that measured maybe 1/2" on a side. BTW, I knew that Stanislaus was Stanislaus because he had taken a leg off Tarantula (pronounced Tar an TU la) in a domestic quarrel. They were both the same sex I guess--or someone had a headache. Anyway, eventually, when I left California I released them into the wild. Canada Customs told me on the phone that I could NOT bring insects into Canada with me. My argument that spiders aren't insects fell on deaf ears. After many phone calls, even Ottawa told me they were insects and so couldn't be brought back with me. I can't believe I vote for these assholes. Anyway, that's that for now.

PS Their bite is very unpleasant, but it heals quickly if you clean it out well. And ya get to stay alive provided you were fairly healthy to begin with.