PLEASE PRAY FOR MY TARANTULA

       I ordered a Texas Brown tarantula from the Carolina Biological Supply Company in Burlington NC.  Five days later, on Monday, June 29, my spider was packed in an 8x8x8-inch box at 9:00 a.m.  At 2:07 p.m. it was picked up by FedEx at taken to its facility in Winston Salem NC.  There it sat until 8:45 p.m., when it was taken to the FedEx hub in Memphis TN, arriving at 10:38 p.m., where it sat for 22 hours!  Hopefully it was inside, because the daily temperature this week is in the nineties.  Finally today, Tuesday, at 8:39 p.m., it left the Memphis FedEx hub and is on the way.  

       Since it left Carolina Biological Supply, the estimated time of arrival here in Branson MO is tomorrow, July 1, before 1:30 p.m.  I will be surprised if they make that.  And I'm thinking it'll take a miracle for my tarantula to arrive alive.  Also, after 24 years experience as a mailman (now retired), I know that carriers routinely toss packages several yards into bins.  FedEx delivered the tarantula's glass terrarium from Walmart yesterday and it came severely smashed to (many) pieces.  We got a refund, and bought a terrarium at the local Petco. 

       So please pray for my new tarantula.  There's a nice home waiting for it. 

 

UPDATE: 

July 1, 2026:  It arrived alive!  Barely.  It's in it's new and comfortable home, and will find the water.  Soon it will feel much better.  It's not full grown, so even if it's a male it will live for years.  Don't know what its sex is yet.  I've name it Trance, after the first tarantula I got from the same company in 1964.

 

Thank you for your prayers!