Mother called RSPCA when she found spider ‘the size of her hand’ at home …but the ending of this story is embarrising

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Jul 28, 2017

The unnamed woman was terrified when she spotted legs poking out from behind her vacuum cleaner in the cupboard under the stairs.

 

She called the RSCPA who rushed to her home in Alresford, Hampshire to take on the fearsome creature last week. But when wildlife inspectors went to capture it, they realised it was just a toy. She was embarrased when her son admitted the toy left under the stairs was his.

RSPCA employee Nikki Denham said: ‘The caller had stated there was a tarantula the size of her hand in the under-stairs cupboard. I turned up with gloves and nets to confine the creature and the woman left me to it, shutting doors around me to prevent its escape. It was dark under the stairs but I could see legs behind a vacuum cleaner that certainly were tarantula size, however as I shone light in I could see that it was in fact a toy plastic tarantula.’

A spokesman for the RSPCA said the organisation was called to rescue 275 real tarantulas last year.

 

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