Do you touch your spiders by hand ?

[SpiderRider1996]

Please check this video and tell me if you ever did that -> https://fb.watch/a5RLrqMO5t/

I am afraid to do it but I really enjoyed watching this video. Show me how you touch your spiders if you are not afraid to do so. I don’t touch any of mine as I’m really scared.

 

[Dorifto]

Please check this video and tell me if you ever did that -> https://fb.watch/a5RLrqMO5t/

I am afraid to do it but I really enjoyed watching this video. Show me how you touch your spiders if you are not afraid to do so. I don’t touch any of mine as I’m really scared.

You won't find affirmative answers here. Simply because as fishes, they are animals to be observed rather than handled or petted.

 

[Poonjab]

I ain’t clicking that link.

 

[Neonblizzard]

The person in that video is a 10/10 moron.

Don't be like them, be like us who love our pets and don't put them in danger by handling; there's literally no reason to handle them and many reasons not to.

 

[BoyFromLA]

I do it time to time.

 

[pongdict]

No

 

[vicareux]

I wonder what goes through the mind of these people. Is a tarantula just like another toy for them, where it's existence is just to entertain its keeper? Those 'keepers' simply don't care if its a stressful experience for the animal or not. All they think about is if they will be cool on social media.
Belly rubs. What a joke. Sometimes i wish tarantulas were more venomous and more prone to bite like a Phoneutria is.

 

[SpiderRider1996]

You won't find affirmative answers here. Simply because as fishes, they are animals to be observed rather than handled or petted.

I observe them only

I do it time to time.

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I can touch them from the outside of the glass so easily but having them in your hand require bravery

I wonder what goes through the mind of these people. Is a tarantula just like another toy for them, where it's existence is just to entertain its keeper? Those 'keepers' simply don't care if its a stressful experience for the animal or not. All they think about is if they will be cool on social media.
Belly rubs. What a joke. Sometimes i wish tarantulas were more venomous and more prone to bite like a Phoneutria is.

Yes but if the spider isn’t running away it must be enjoying it. Don’t they have receptors for sensitivity and touch just like we do? If not then how do they differentiate human hand and cricket

 

[antinous]

Yes but if the spider isn’t running away it must be enjoying it. Don’t they have receptors for sensitivity and touch just like we do? If not then how do they differentiate human hand and cricket

Just because they aren’t ‘running away’ doesn’t mean they enjoy it. Maybe ‘tolerating’ would be a better word.

On the topic of handling, I haven’t handled any of the tarantulas I’ve owned the last almost 10 years. I’ve only handled a few that I’ve come across in the wild, and that was mainly because they ran up my arm/holding it to get the rock/debris put back in place so I didn’t harm it.

 

[BoyFromLA]

It’s not bravery that’s required here, but it’s rather well informed knowledge that these animals do not need to be touched, but to be well observed.

 

[vicareux]

Yes but if the spider isn’t running away it must be enjoying it.

A spider can't enjoy this, or any interaction with a human (a predator from a tarantula's perspective). It's simply tolerant, and you can see it raised its pedipalps and front legs,as a threat pose. After that, you can see in the video that it's actively trying to escape the grasp of the human.

Don’t they have receptors for sensitivity and touch just like we do? If not then how do they differentiate human hand and cricket

I don't know much about how do they distinguish different chemicals and what organs/setae they use to do that, but it's mostly about vibrations and the situation they're in. It doesn't take a genius tarantula to feel the pressure (even though the pressure might be light for a human, its much more than a cricket could achieve) and the 'dexterity' in a human's grasp to feel that it's in danger.

 

[cold blood]

Yes but if the spider isn’t running away it must be enjoying it

That's incredibly flawed logic. (I am not even 100% sure you were serious about this comment, but i will respond as if you were)


I have an ex GF, who while at work was sexually assaulted, she froze and didn't run away or even speak...does that mean she actually liked it?

Fear causes animals to freeze all the time.....prey animals know the predator's eyes pick up movement better than anything, as a result, most prey will freeze at the first sign of danger and only run or bite (fight or flight) when after that fails to work.

 

[SpiderRider1996]

It’s not bravery that’s required here, but it’s rather well informed knowledge that these animals do not need to be touched, but to be well observed.

I don’t think any animal including human need to be touched. Touch is something that could be good bad or neutral… or at least that’s how I think of it

 

[greeneyedelle]

Yes! All the time! I regularly put my hand into their enclosures and more often than not, my t’s will even run onto my open palm. It’s amazing the bond we have. I’ve gotten them trained to sit on top of my shoulder like parrots. We do synchronized hand movements (it took A LOT of reward based training, but man it was worth it). It’s weird though, they tend to curl up into a ball whenever I pull them out and hang out with them. It’s a trick I didn’t teach them, but kinda funny. And when I put them back, they’re always so exhausted with happiness at being played with that they go into their hides and sleep for a week.

 

[SpiderRider1996]

That's incredibly flawed logic. (I am not even 100% sure you were serious about this comment, but ai will respond as if you were)


I have an ex GF, who while at work was sexually assaulted, she froze and didn't run away or even speak...does that mean she actually liked it?

Fear causes animals to freeze all the time.....prey animals know the predator's eyes pick up movement better than anything, as a result, most prey will freeze at the first sign of danger and only run or bite (fight or flight) when after that fails to work.

I made that comment on the ground that when causing vibration to the enclosure due to cleaning dust then the spider run away very quick. Watching YouTube allowed me to see how fast spiders can be when touched by human hand. Therefore I think my way of thinking isn’t so stupid or non logical

Yes! All the time! I regularly put my hand into their enclosures and more often than not, my t’s will even run onto my open palm. It’s amazing the bond we have. I’ve gotten them trained to sit on top of my shoulder like parrots. We do synchronized hand movements (it took A LOT of reward based training, but man it was worth it). It’s weird though, they tend to curl up into a ball whenever I pull them out and hang out with them. It’s a trick I didn’t teach them, but kinda funny. And when I put them back, they’re always so exhausted with happiness at being played with that they go into their hides and sleep for a week.

I only touched the shed skin of my spider and it was so fluffy. When touching your spider do you feel anything like itching or fluffyness ?

 

[Smotzer]

Is a tarantula just like another toy for them, where it's existence is just to entertain its keeper? Those 'keepers' simply don't care if its a stressful experience for the animal or not. All they think about is if they will be cool on social media.

This^ X100. It’s a trend, it’s a toy, it’s a way to seem cool, and most importantly get views on social media, the mass public doesn’t care about the risks, it’s their pet and they think they can do whatever they want with it.

but having them in your hand require bravery

There is nothing brave about it, it requires total self-centeredness and a willful lack of care for the animal’s life.

Yes but if the spider isn’t running away it must be enjoying it.

This is based on some of the silliest false logic I’ve ever heard, I don’t like plenty of things that I don’t run away from. And the tarantula may not even understand what is happening and be scared to death. I know I would be if a giant different species 300x my size reached a hand down out of the clouds, ripped off the roof of my house and picked me up and started messing with me. Pretty sure I’d be frozen in fear and stick there, but if I don’t run, that means I like be used like a toy?

If not then how do they differentiate human hand and cricket

A cricket is not a giant appendage grabbing on to them and manipulating them. They are aware it is far bigger than meal sized prey.

 

[nicodimus22]

No. I'm intelligent.

 

[greeneyedelle]

I only touched the shed skin of my spider and it was so fluffy. When touching your spider do you feel anything like itching or fluffyness ?

Sarcasm is my favorite language, I forget some people don’t speak it.

I don’t handle my tarantulas. It’s not something you should aspire to do. There’s nothing about their behavior that indicates a pleasurable response to human interaction, and if you’re looking for a sign in THAT particular video, it’s the tucking of the tarantulas legs to its cephalothorax. A defensive and uncomfortable position from what we know of tarantula body language thus far. Your tarantula should be a “look but don’t touch” animal, try to abandon expectations outside of that.

 

[Jonathan6303]

Why the heck do people need to touch ts. For goodness sake just get a dog or cat, heck get a hamster if you want attention I don’t care. JUST LEAVE YOUR T ALONE.

 

[Neonblizzard]

How are your tarantulas doing @SpiderRider1996 ? Have you got them all set up nicely now?