Saturday, May 19, 2007

Poisonous, hissing spider attacks man and cat

A terrified man told yesterday how a poisonous, hissing spider attacked him and his cat in his kitchen.

It reared up on its hind legs and charged at James Hoskins' bare feet when he disturbed it under a broom.

Shop worker James, 27, of Bideford, Devon, leaped on to a unit, but the vicious beast, possibly a false black widow, attacked his cat Bernie, biting his paw.

James said: "I've never seen a spider like it. It was so aggressive and even hissed when it ran at me.

After the stand-off I caught it in a cup, and let it go in a hedge."

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