Neighbors in the Desert

Jim was out vacuuming the truck and cleaning the interior late this afternoon.  A lady came by with her dog and told him there was a really big spider behind him. There was!  He's a tarantula.  Apparently this time of year, the males go out searching for a female.  He went trucking down the road, so we shooed him into a box and took him across the street into the desert.  Hopefully he'll stay there.

If one were to flatten out his legs, he'd be about five inches across.  I read on the internet that they make good pets.