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Tarantulas as pets
KvP:
:-(
Alex C:
Reading this thread because I couldn't get sleep was the worst idea ever. Years from now I will still be awake. I can see myself already, curled upon my bed, pale and drawn. A broken man, clutching a crowbar and contemplating how much longer until evolution results in coconut crabs scurrying around and latching onto people's heads.
Boro_Bandito:
--- Quote from: KvP on 20 Aug 2008, 21:16 ---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.
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I own a ball python, and yeah, pretty much. I'm not particularly afraid of tarantulas, in fact they are the spiders I'm least afraid of because they're big enough so I can keep an eye on them, if you know what I mean. Most of them aren't very poisonous and if they bit you it wouldn't mean death, like with a lot of smaller spider species. Not to mention they're furry. I had a friend who had one as a kid, but it really wasn't all that interesting. Plus my snake is chill and I'm way more comfortable handling it then i would be a tarantula any day, and can hang out around my neck or on my shoulders, I wouldn't put a spider there. ever.
HellStorm:
--- Quote from: Edith on 20 Aug 2008, 21:40 ---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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I thought that they were meant to be like the most poisonous spider or something, but they didn't have fangs big enough to pierce human skin.
Eli:
I thought that, too, but I just looked it up and it's not true.
I'm really afraid of spiders, snakes, and rats. Mice don't bother me, but ever since 1984, I've been terrified of rats. Tarantulas are better than smaller spiders because you can watch them, but I'm sure I'd freak out more if I didn't know one was around and it suddenly appeared. Pet snakes are okay, but after living in Georgia and seeing rattlesnakes and water moccasins all the time, I hate wild snakes.
The rest of the horror movie animals people have mentioned I hope never to see.
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