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<blockquote data-quote="Gizalba" data-source="post: 192873" data-attributes="member: 31253"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>Yesterday someone in the house behind me set a car on fire - massive bang, lots of smoke, then the police evacuated the whole two streets due to a gas leak. Omg. Anyway when the police knocked on my door and explained I asked do I need to evacuate pets too and she said 'what are they?'. I said tarantulas and she said 'Ew, leave them.' :'( I can understand some people are scared of spiders and have no empathy for them, but her not having any empathy for my concern over them was rather horrible. I figured now wasn't the time for me to argue tarantula rights though so I said I'd be out in a minute then tried to decide what to do about the Ts. </p><p></p><p>I was hoping that the evacuation was just a precaution, but didn't know for sure, or know exactly where the gas was coming from. I still don't know if it came from just the car or whether somehow the fire caused a leak in gas elsewhere. However if the gas was dangerous for me, I was guessing it was dangerous for the Ts too. I have 48 and a few other spiders, so there was no way I could take them all anyway and I didn't know how quick I needed to get out of the house. I did seriously consider taking my biggest enclosure with Nymphadora in, but it was hard trying to balance the risk of death from gas I didn't have enough info on, against the risk of taking the tarantulas to the park with me, the more I took the more likely it is I'd fall/have an accident/ scare people if they realised what I had, then the tarantulas getting harmed that way; even trying to move them without too much jiggle in an emergency was hard. So I packed 5 tarantula slings and my jumping spider into an IKEA cardboard cup carry case I luckily happened to have, to keep them upright and secure inside a bag. I couldn't bear the thought of coming back to find all of my Ts dead, so if that happened at least this way the few slings I took with me would hopefully survive. I also tried not to do any favouritism <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> argh, in an emergency my head was still analysing all of this. So I chose who would come with me based on which enclosures would most easily fit into the case with the maximum amount of enclosures, roughly, at a glance. My jumping spider was a priority though as he is so small I worried the gas would be most likely to affect him. </p><p></p><p>Sorry this is turning into an epic story! It has also made me start thinking about other potential emergencies, like a fire in my house, and how I would get the Ts out then. Yes the police would think I'm mad trying to save them over myself, and maybe I am but they mean the world to me. </p><p></p><p>So I took the slings to the park, went to pick up my medication I'd been meaning to go out for anyway, went to the shop, then was worried it was starting to get a bit cold for the slings and I had nowhere inside to go. Obviously with the covid closures I couldn't hang out in a cafe or library. Luckily it was a sunny day and so much warmer than last week, but I still needed layers on myself. Eventually I found the community centre was open and asked to sit in there, again not wanting to alarm people and put the Ts in danger that way, I didn't want to explain what the real issue was unless absolutely necessary, so said that I was cold. </p><p></p><p>In the end it was only 2 1/2 hours we were not allowed in the houses, but when I didn't know how long it would be and even the community centre felt too cold for slings, I was getting very worried :/ So I think I am going to invest in some emergency heat packs for if something wild like this happens again! </p><p></p><p>The rest of the tarantulas currently seem fine. The sling enclosures I took with me had steamed up with condensation from the moisture in there getting cold, but after a while in my heated room that disappeared and I have seen them all move. However I am still worried about whether the Ts who stayed where exposed to the gas and whether it could have caused damage to them that will only become apparent long-term? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> I guess noone can answer this, not knowing the details of the gas, but I wondered if anyone has any similar experiences and if their Ts were okay?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gizalba, post: 192873, member: 31253"] Hi, Yesterday someone in the house behind me set a car on fire - massive bang, lots of smoke, then the police evacuated the whole two streets due to a gas leak. Omg. Anyway when the police knocked on my door and explained I asked do I need to evacuate pets too and she said 'what are they?'. I said tarantulas and she said 'Ew, leave them.' :'( I can understand some people are scared of spiders and have no empathy for them, but her not having any empathy for my concern over them was rather horrible. I figured now wasn't the time for me to argue tarantula rights though so I said I'd be out in a minute then tried to decide what to do about the Ts. I was hoping that the evacuation was just a precaution, but didn't know for sure, or know exactly where the gas was coming from. I still don't know if it came from just the car or whether somehow the fire caused a leak in gas elsewhere. However if the gas was dangerous for me, I was guessing it was dangerous for the Ts too. I have 48 and a few other spiders, so there was no way I could take them all anyway and I didn't know how quick I needed to get out of the house. I did seriously consider taking my biggest enclosure with Nymphadora in, but it was hard trying to balance the risk of death from gas I didn't have enough info on, against the risk of taking the tarantulas to the park with me, the more I took the more likely it is I'd fall/have an accident/ scare people if they realised what I had, then the tarantulas getting harmed that way; even trying to move them without too much jiggle in an emergency was hard. So I packed 5 tarantula slings and my jumping spider into an IKEA cardboard cup carry case I luckily happened to have, to keep them upright and secure inside a bag. I couldn't bear the thought of coming back to find all of my Ts dead, so if that happened at least this way the few slings I took with me would hopefully survive. I also tried not to do any favouritism :( argh, in an emergency my head was still analysing all of this. So I chose who would come with me based on which enclosures would most easily fit into the case with the maximum amount of enclosures, roughly, at a glance. My jumping spider was a priority though as he is so small I worried the gas would be most likely to affect him. Sorry this is turning into an epic story! It has also made me start thinking about other potential emergencies, like a fire in my house, and how I would get the Ts out then. Yes the police would think I'm mad trying to save them over myself, and maybe I am but they mean the world to me. So I took the slings to the park, went to pick up my medication I'd been meaning to go out for anyway, went to the shop, then was worried it was starting to get a bit cold for the slings and I had nowhere inside to go. Obviously with the covid closures I couldn't hang out in a cafe or library. Luckily it was a sunny day and so much warmer than last week, but I still needed layers on myself. Eventually I found the community centre was open and asked to sit in there, again not wanting to alarm people and put the Ts in danger that way, I didn't want to explain what the real issue was unless absolutely necessary, so said that I was cold. In the end it was only 2 1/2 hours we were not allowed in the houses, but when I didn't know how long it would be and even the community centre felt too cold for slings, I was getting very worried :/ So I think I am going to invest in some emergency heat packs for if something wild like this happens again! The rest of the tarantulas currently seem fine. The sling enclosures I took with me had steamed up with condensation from the moisture in there getting cold, but after a while in my heated room that disappeared and I have seen them all move. However I am still worried about whether the Ts who stayed where exposed to the gas and whether it could have caused damage to them that will only become apparent long-term? :( I guess noone can answer this, not knowing the details of the gas, but I wondered if anyone has any similar experiences and if their Ts were okay? [/QUOTE]
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