dr_sebby

...She's about to have kittens, and let's face it...nobody wants to adopt a teen-age cat - so I will be finding homes for them when they are roughly 8 weeks old...which means they will be eating solid foods AND still nursing. So once they've gone to their new homes, she'll be "bursting at the seams" with excess milk and no one to drink it! I can't imagine this could be very comfortable for her....so I wonder, is there a way to periodically milk her to slowly 'step' her down from full milk production and thus ease her discomfort?

And of course if there is a way to nicely do this, the interesting question arises.... "cat cheese"! =)

If there's enough I'd simply HAVE to try making some!

...body was sort of rectangular in shape....all black with two very prominent red stripes coming from it's underside and arching up over and down the length of the body (one on each side).

spider was sitting dead center of it's web which was suspended between two medium sized trees. sort of a volleyball net shape - width maybe 5 feet across...maybe 2.5 feet high...roughly 5 ft off the ground. full spider leg span was roughly 12" across, with the body length being maybe 7inches long, but fairly narrow all the way, head to 'tail'.

i was going to poke it with a stick to see it move, but it freaked me out too much to do so...so i just walked around it. found another one maybe 60% same size about 20 yards further on. same web style etc. Webs were really well built & reinforced...larger web probably wouldve easily stopped a pigeon mid-flight.

Any help would be appreciated. Please consider spider species which are typically much much smaller if it sounds like a matching description. Thankyou!