{"id":9383,"date":"2019-08-15T18:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T01:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/?p=9383"},"modified":"2019-09-24T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:06:45","slug":"airdrie-tarantula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/?p=9383","title":{"rendered":"Someone Found An Abandoned Tarantula In Airdrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>She Was Left For Dead<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On Sunday August 11th 2019 someone in Airdrie was taking a walk and noticed a holyshit goddamn tarantula in the grass beside an overpass! Ahhh! Doing what people do, she shared a photo of it on Facebook and left to go about her business. It turns out that someone else on Facebook named Heather sees it and she immediately heads over to this place to try and rescue it, because spiders are people too and Heather is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>The original Facebook post was made in a closed Facebook group, so here&#8217;s a screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9386 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Airdrie-tarantula.jpg\" alt=\"Tuffnail the Airdrie Tarantula original post\" width=\"480\" height=\"827\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>How did it get there?!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Someone apparently threw it away, Tarantula and terrarium\u00a0and all. Just left it here or something. Who does that??<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9385\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9385 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tuffnail_Tarantula_habitat.jpg\" alt=\"Tuffnail the Airdrie Tarantula abandoned terrarium \" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10161889438160618&amp;set=gm.715708602192300&amp;type=3&amp;theater&amp;ifg=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">source<\/a> @ Tuffnail the Tarantula FB group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Heather finds it but quickly figures out she&#8217;s in way over her head and calls her friends Cee and Vic friends to help. They show up and collect up the tarantula and bring it home, and since Cee has owned one before, she&#8217;s going to take care of it from now on. They&#8217;ve since nursed it back to health and it seems to be doing okay! Yay!<\/p>\n<p><strong>New name:<\/strong> Tuffnail the Tarantula!<\/p>\n<p>Heathers last name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heather.tuffnail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuffnail<\/a>, and honestly it&#8217;s pretty appropriate given the circumstances.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/715705222192638\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuffnail the Tarantula Facebook Group<\/a> &#8211; Cee has created a Facebook group to share updates and give round the clock spider updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-mantis-zone=\"in-article\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Tuffnail is Tough As Nails<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Cleaning her wound, which was sustained during the sweet horrible freedom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9387 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Airdrie-tarantula-wound-care.jpg\" alt=\"Tuffnail the Airdrie Tarantula care\" width=\"562\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Poor girl.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9389 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Airdrie-tarantula-Tuffnail-wound-care.jpg\" alt=\"Tuffnail the Airdrie Tarantula wound cleaning\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Airdrie-tarantula-Tuffnail-wound-care.jpg 720w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Airdrie-tarantula-Tuffnail-wound-care-620x827.jpg 620w, https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Airdrie-tarantula-Tuffnail-wound-care-644x859.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tuffnail was so thirsty she drank water directly from a bowl. Ever see that before?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10161895136735618&#038;set=gm.716484378781389&#038;type=3&#038;theater&#038;ifg=1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s 2019 so of course Tuffnail already has a Tinder profile.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9388 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Airdrie-tarantula-Tuffnail-Tinder.jpg\" alt=\"Tuffnail the Airdrie Tarantula \" width=\"444\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverairdrie.com\/local\/tarantula-found-wandering-airdrie-pathway-is-rescued\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Discover Airdrie<\/a> did a piece on this, and there&#8217;s some radio interviews from them if you want to check them out.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conclusion\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/715705222192638\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go join the group and follow along!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ps. Amazon has a plushie tarantula and the kid who is showing it off is hilarious lol<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/31Idkx7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81WEX6nRsmL._SL1500_.jpg\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1001\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She Was Left For Dead On Sunday August 11th 2019 someone in Airdrie was taking a walk and noticed a holyshit goddamn tarantula in the &#8230; <a title=\"Someone Found An Abandoned Tarantula In Airdrie\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/?p=9383\" aria-label=\"Read more about Someone Found An Abandoned Tarantula In Airdrie\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[380],"class_list":["post-9383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-wholesome","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Airdrie-Tuffnail-tarantula.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9383"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9400,"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions\/9400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crackmacs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}