He bent to the bathroom sink to wash, brush his teeth, and shave. Movement made him stop. A small spider was trying to climb up the sink’s white porcelain surface. Each time the spider came within an inch of the top, he slid a few inches back down.
He put his finger out to help the spider. The spider darted back and slid all the way back into the basin. After a three-count, the climb back up was begun again.
He looked for something to use as a spider lift. But as he finally found something, he saw the spider was almost to the top again. He leaned closer to the arachnid. “Come on, you can do. Just think of yourself as the little spider who can. Tell yourself, I think I can, I think I can.”
The spider made it. After a pause — orienting himself or catching his breath? — the spider turned and marched along the counter top and on to another adventure.
Michael Seidel, writer 
I LOVE this! I cannot count the number of times I’ve rescued a small spider or a cricket, lured them onto a piece of paper then released them back into the wild (our yard) before the floofs could get to them and dismember them! Hooray for the little spider!
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We’re like that as well. The greatest challenge is knocking down webs at inconvenient places. First the spider must be encouraged to leave the web and find safety.
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We haven’t had that problem … yet. Touch wood. Our biggest challenge in the summertime is catching the crickets that come in under the front door before the floofs see them, for our Boo loves to pull their legs off!
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The little spider who could😊 I rescue them when I can and release them to the wild with a whispered Fly, be free! Spiders can’t fly, you say? Oh dear…😉
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Well, spiders don’t have wings, but they spin parachutes and paragliders out of their silk and use that to float and glide, shouting, “Wheee,” as they go. Once they land, they’re often like, “She’s fun. I’m going to go back there and do that again.”
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