The missing sign for Penelope the Mexican Red Rump Tarantula posted around Brooklyn.Photo: Imgur
Help, my giant poisonous spider is missing — and she’s pregnant!
A hairy Red Rump Tarantula named Penelope is on the loose in Park Slope and the owner is frantically trying to find her before she pops out her tiny creepy spawn.
“I know she looks crazy scary but she’s mostly harmless,” the owner posted missing pet sign posted in South Slope, along with a photo.
“She’s pregnant, so I’m hoping to find her before she has her babies. She’s mostly active at night and she tends to hide in dark corners,” it notes.
“She shouldn’t bite but sometimes she jumps,” it adds.
Red rump tarantulas are native to Mexico and have venom fangs that are deadly to their prey. They can grow up to five inches long.
The milk carton-like sign has spooked neighbors who fear an “Arachnophobia”-style outbreak in Brownstone Brooklyn, assuming it’s not some elaborate hoax.
“Someone find it before we end up with a tarantula infestation in Brooklyn,” one commenter posted on Reddit under a photo of the spider.
Other folks cared more about the critter’s safety.
“Hope they find [her] before someone kills her!” another commenter posted.
On the sign, the pet owner asks that whoever finds her puts her in a “tupperware bowl” with holes, so she can breath, then call a phone number listed on the sign.
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