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Tarantulas as pets
Liz:
I have no problem with spiders or snakes or the things that typically creep people out. Sure, they'll startle me if one comes out of nowhere, but I'm not going to hyperventilate and die. I was the kid that picked up little garter snakes to chase people with. Also, I apparently let a tarantula climb all over me at a zoo when I was three! Naturally I don't remember this occurring, but my mom swears it happened.
RedLion:
Ah, yes, now snakes, that is something that I have no problem with, and that I like. I can't see why people are afraid of them.
But spiders--fuck.
tania:
no animal needs more than four legs. that isn't right.
KvP:
We used to have lots of daddy longlegs around here. Having eight legs is bad enough, but when they're all long and spindly... icky.
That having been said, spiders don't really bother me. Hell, back in eighth grade I took a spider biology course over at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and I would build traps out of coffee cans filled with antifreeze and put them in the ground. The spiders would just fall right in. Even the little ones have pretty impressive fangs when you look at them under the right magnification. I think having a tarantula as a pet is certainly novel, but I'd imagine it's just like owning a snake (which I had, at one point) once the novelty wears off you're left with a creature whose relationship with you pretty much begins and ends with feeding.
Edith:
I ate a daddy longlegs once, on a dare. It was crunchy and tasted like peppermint. I almost threw up after.
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