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Random pet family appreciation thread is where I roll a random pet family every week for everyone to share their pictures, their stories, their love for that pet family. Please no hate or rants. This is an appreciation thread. If you dislike the family, don't post! Hopefully with some love we can get some hunters to try out new pets they never would have thought to tame before.
Our 31st family is the creepy spider family!
Spider facts
~Spiders have been tameable since Vanilla WoW.
~Spiders have five models and 27 different skins.
~Spiders have 18 tameable rares. These are Anthriss, Chatter, Chitter, Creepthess, Darkmist Widow, Deth'tilac (unique skinned), Gretheer, Kirix, Krethis the Shadowspinner, Leech Widow, Mother Fang, Naraxis, Rekk'tilac, Shanda the Spinner, Skitterflame, Solix (unique skinned), Sri'skulk, and Terror Spinner. Spiders also have two non-tameable rares, Crystal Fang and Hyakiss the Lurker, which are both instance bosses.
~With so many spiders, only two are unique skinned named members. Both are rares listed above: Deth'tilac and Solix.
~Back in Wrath, spiders were tamed by 4.5% of level 80 hunters. Placing them at number 6 on the list. (Source)
~Back in Wrath, bonespider_grey was the most tamed skin at 39.9%. Minespiderskinjungle was the least tamed skin at 0.3%. (Source Note: Necrotic Webspinner shows up as "skin unknown" as they where made tameable late Wrath.)
~Smolderweb Hatchling is a spider minipet matching minespiderskincrystal. Formally obtainable from the quest En-Ay-Es-Tee-Why pre-Cataclysm. Now Mother Smolderweb drops a smolderweb egg for players to raise into a hatchling.
~Giant spider models (also known as spiked Outland spiders) have no swim animations.
~Spiders have a gem skin, five different color fire skins, magma tarantula skin, and five undead bone spider skins.
~Chitter got his name from the Petopia forums!
~Darkmist Broodqueen makes nerubian sounds.
~Two spiders might been found in the oddest of places, even in the middle of cities. Both Deadwind Widow and Deepmoss Webspinner drop down on players from above. When kited long distances, they can bug and become immune to all damage (except area AoE effects such as Explosive Trap) and will follow the player anywhere on it's respective continent. When a player leaves the continent the spiders will stay at that spot until the player returns. They even stay up if the player is logged out.
~Terokkarantula is one of the largest beasts hunters can tame. Pictures of her from early MoP beta where pets retained their wild sizes can be seen starting here. She is even taller than wild devilsaurs!
~Two spider had faster than 2.0 attack speed in Vanilla. These where Spawn of Mar'li (1.4) and Spire Spiderling (1.5). Spire Spiderlings used to have 1.0 attack speed when Blackrock Spire was introduced, but the spiders had to be toned down for players to survive their attacks!
~Gretheer looked and sounded like a tallstrider in early Vanilla, yet still tamed as a spider!
Sofia, the remarkably purple spirit cat as drawn by Ket Shi. 
Totally understand how you feel. My fear for real spiders majorly out-does my fear of the in game ones. Although the spider pots that With Doctors in DIII throw freak me the hell out (I forced my bf to stop using the move when he was around me) and every now and then spiders that appear in games still totally freak me out.
