Cat-astrophes

Sophie. How can words describe her? She has a shapely body, beautiful big brown beady eyes, long long (let me emphasize) LOOOoooOOONG legs, she has a tribal tattoo on her abdoman and is covered in silky grey hair.

Sophie is a spider. She is a gorgeous grey huntsman - she looks rather like a wolf-spider if it wasn't for the extended forelegs. Her little fangs look hairy and harmless from the front, but if you manage to see them from behind...well, I'm glad I'm no bug. She spans a healthy 15cm and is very VERY fast.

So why am I harbouring spiders? School. I'm doing a unit on mini-worlds, and doing a mini-study on spiders. My class don't know about Sophie yet, they'll meet her next week...my biggest fear is actually that one of them might actually eat her...

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