If a supersonic ultrasonic scream shattered your windows tonight ... it was me! I saw what appeared to be some black thread tangled into a knot lying on the carpet - I'm always finding bits & pieces of cat toys ripped off - so I picked it up to throw away before Stella swallowed it - and watched in horror as legs slowly extended from the "knot" - it was a black spider that had been worked over by Stella cat - and I picked it up!
And had to resist the impulse to hurl it away! It was like a horror movie as I watched those legs straighten out!
I slowly walked to the sink without jostling the awakening arachnid and dropped it into the disposal! Then I sank to the floor clutching my chest, sweating up a puddle!
The horror! The horror!
[Off to self-medicate with some single malt!]