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9 tarantulas shipped to SC home are missing and unsuspecting porch pirate may be why
A package carrying several hairy spiders is missing from a South Carolina porch and a thief may be responsible, officials say.
The FedEx shipment of about nine tarantulas was supposed to arrive at an Upstate home on Friday, according to a report from the Spartanburg County Sheriffs Office.
A resident on Sunday told a deputy she received a notice that her package had been sent but didnt see it on her doorstep, the report says.
The spider-filled shipment was worth about $1,000, according to the sheriffs office.
https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article233293882.html
klook
(12,134 posts)though for the critters sake, I hope they got away to their natural habitat.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)endangered or not.
Disaffected
(4,507 posts)marble falls
(56,359 posts)essme
(1,207 posts)they are in plastic cages, and the person is going to throw them away- in Southern August heat. They will die horrible, slow deaths.
You are correct, the exotic animal trade needs to stop. I am terrified of spiders, but I am not cruel or stupid. If one comes in my house, they are put in a "relocation facility" (an upside down mixing bowl), and taken outside on a piece of cardboard. There is no reason for a living thing (except cockroaches)- to suffer like that.