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[jaxy15]

Fluffball the Purring Menace of Severing, kitten, has been elected mayor!

If that happened, I'd kill it as fast as possible. I couldn't keep up with all the yarn balls it would mandate.

[SRD]

So just [child] will make it lay eggs, have babies/adolescent children?

[KodKod]

[CHILD:1] Will make a breeding pair give birth to live young that will grow into adults after one year.

[Garath]

it needs some egglayer tags at the [FEMALE] caste. I usually just copy them from somewhere and edit them for size and clutch size

[Cobaldunderpants]

Actually I caught and tamed one once. I put him in a pasture outside my fortress entrance. While he didn't have webs or venom he did have two things: Speed and courage. He was really useful for spotting and running down kobolds. Lack of poison isn't much of a hinderance when you fight something a baby could kill.

When a goblin ambush did show up he "leapt" into the thick of it. He started biting gobos left and right while my militia was on its way to the entrance. That spider got just about every body part smashed and broken by those goblins. However, he just kept going after them, he didn't retreat or give up and kept them occupied long enough for my dwarves to tear them apart. Some may say he kept the spider's immunity to pain and fear. I say he had enough courage for the entire fortress.

It was sad watching him limp around. He survived, but there was nothing I could do to heal him. I just put him in a nice pasture in a dark area where things would be less likely to bother him.

[NW_Kohaku]

Amusingly, all these problems spring from the fact that people have no friggin' clue how spiders actually operate.

Yes, it's weaker than a giant cave spider - of course it is, it's based on a real creature, and giant cave spiders have all the advantages of multiple different forms of spiders without any of the real-life drawbacks.

Jumping spiders are the creatures that hunt crawling insects with their ability to run and jump quickly (although many of them still do have venom).  Orb-Weaver spiders are web-spinners with poison, but they are slow and clumsy to the point where they have to rely upon their webs.

[Thatdude]

So what your saying is, use Giant cave spiders to defend/ensnare/bite heads off of an attacking army, and then when they're in full retreat, send the giant jumping spiders in to hunt down any cowardly goblins that dare try to invade you.

If anyone can pull this off it would be one the best forts ever.

[KodKod]

That's too many spiders. Have you not seen Eight Legged Freaks? It can only end in tears.

[Garath]

No, I can only see an opportunity for win here

[Monk321654]

Don't forget that chitin has the defensive properties of papier-mâché, so one good punch in the head from anything will probably kill it.

If Chitin has the Properties of Papier-Mache, then bone just has the properties of paper.
Seriously, it might be bad luck on my part, but I've seen too many heads split.

[KodKod]

Wet paper, actually. A subtle but crucial difference.

[Niyazov]

Enjoy it while it lasts; I think they live for about a year.

[Dish It Out!]

That's too many spiders.

I'm not sure what this phrase is supposed to mean but I'm pretty sure it's damn wrong.

[Eric Blank]

Always needs more spiders?

[Naryar]

yeah giant jumping spiders don't jump, so they're not use for now.