Once again, I face the moral dilemma: is it wrong to call the cat, in hopes that she will eat a spider and I won’t have to deal with it?

I asked my roommate, while we were waiting for one of the two cats (both watching the arachnid creep around the carpet and occasionally patting it with a paw) to dispatch a spider.

“Why, no!” she said, “It’s part of the Great Circle of Life!”

I know they eat other creepy crawlies, and if the cats didn’t do the grisly bit I’d evict them rather than squishing them, and maybe it’s just societal norms anyway, but gewww! I don’t like spiders in my bedroom, or heading towards my clothes closet, or, worse yet, towards my bed!