Big shock! Shropshire animal man rescues tarantula from garden
It isn't your average garden spider but a woman found this one crawling at her home.
Scott Adams, from Telford's Exotic Zoo was called to the house in Rodbaston, over the Shropshire border with Staffordshire, to recover the creepy-crawly.
Scott said he had to rescue the adult male taratula from the older lady's back garden about a week ago.
He said: "Her family had called around but no one would help her.
"She was an older lady in a bungalow on her own. Her family got through to me and I went on the rescue.
"It is a big adult male tarantula which is unusual as they only mature in the last cycle of their life.
"It will probably have escaped or been released and as a mature male could have walked a long distance looking for a mate."
Scott, from the zoo based at Lakeside Plant Centre in Priorslee, said the tarantula has now been rehomed at another zoo.
