I can’t keep them inside because our whole small home is finished. I might consider putting a spider door in the attic cover, but that is in my bedroom. *shudder*
Outside it rarely goes above freezing dependably during the day until mid-April. In the summer I adopt a few of the best performing spiders, and take the rest outside.
Either way, I am not going to entertain the thought of spider-guilt. If that means I will be reincarnated as a spider, so be it.
Sweetheart, if spiders give you the creeps, then you don’t have to save or babysit them. I’m sure that they survived winters for thousands of years before people came around and built heated tract homes.
I really like them, so I do try to save them, but that’s just me. Most normal people like you get the willies from creepy crawlies. I just never did, from the time I can remember when I was about 2-1/2 years old. They always fascinated me.
Do you put little tags on their collars to separate the best-performing spiders from the not-so-hot performing ones?