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Brown Widow Spiders Covering California

By: Kelli Bender Jul 3rd 2012 11:04AM

Any residents of the Golden State suffering from arachnophobia may want to exit now. According to KABC-TV, the population of brown-widow spiders is booming in Southern California. Brown widows have been in California for about a decade, but over the past several years their numbers have greatly increased, spreading the eight-legged creepy crawlers farther around the state. Spider researchers like Rick Vetter wonder how far this expansion will go. Vetter told with KABC-TV that right now there is no trend for the direction the brown widows are heading, and researchers are waiting for the spiders to make the first move. While the black widows prefer dark and secluded places like garages, ...

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Photo: soft-hearted.com Losing a loved one is never easy. In fact, it's not uncommon among pet owners to see the remains of their cat or dog (or... other beloved friend) cremated and kept in an urn for good housekeeping. But the idea of taking those ashes and spilling them from an urn into a pillow? Frankly, that gives us the heebie-jeebies. The Soft-Hearted Pillow is just that: an alternative to the "solid, stationary urn, positioned on a shelf, forever still" (well, when you put it that way...). Indeed, in those hard times, the wish to hug your furry friend just one more time is a painful part of the mourning process, but the prospect of embracing a pillow and feeling the ashes -- kept ...

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