How do you sleep at night and other eye-rollers

[flamesbane]

Honestly the people who bother me the most are my parents. They are ALWAYS saying something to the effect of:
"Don't let them get out!"
"Don't let your daughter near them!"
"Are they safe?"

Their constant worry that I would somehow put my own child in danger...it drives me nuts...

 

[Shell]

Honestly the people who bother me the most are my parents. They are ALWAYS saying something to the effect of:
"Don't let them get out!"
"Don't let your daughter near them!"
"Are they safe?"

Their constant worry that I would somehow put my own child in danger...it drives me nuts...

My mom is exactly the same!! She is already convinced that my 2 baby Ball Pythons (18 inches right now) are going to get loose and eat my 2 kids, now she thinks our T will be escaping and searching out the kids to bite them lol

 

[Helix]

Dont you have enough of them?

 

[GailC]

I don't get many questions about my T's but when I do its usually the same ones.

"do you keep them together?"
"why don't you hold them?"
"will they tame down like lizards?"

On the subject of stupid people...one of my rosies I bought from a local guy who had her for 3 years. Supposedly she was wild caught in Californias death valley, cause we all know how close death valley is to chile.
The worse part is he told me how he tried for 3 years to get bit because rosea venom make you hallucinate, I told him to come to my house if he wanted to get bit that bad.

 

[Mina]

Touche! What a great response to that question!

LOL - That is so funny Mina!

And Mina, that's hilarious. I'm gonna have to steal that one, haha.

-Cass

Glad you liked it, it does have the added bonus of shutting them up very quickly. Feel free to use it, it is an attention getter for sure.
I do only use that though if they are being obnoxious. Some people are nice, confused but pleasant and honestly interested.
Anytime someone tells me that they are afraid of spiders though I do always say that is okay, they aren't afraid of you at all.

 

[matthias]

My favorite is when I tell them my first T was a Anniversary present for my lovely wife. Everyone asks "And she didn't divorce you?"
I usually laugh and tell them about her bed room.

For some reason people always assume the all of my Ts have free range in my home. I have no idea why. I also get the "how can you sleep" question, to which I reply, "Actually I sleep very well, I have tarantulas, snakes, scorpions and pit bulls in my bedroom, no one in their right mind would bother me."

BTW Happy anniversary sweety!

 

[Mina]

Happy anniversary right back, dear!!! It does freak people out that my first T was an anniversary present.

 

[WelshTan]

my 3rd T was a valentines gift to me from my now ex

 

[Steve Calceatum]

Honestly the people who bother me the most are my parents. They are ALWAYS saying something to the effect of:
"Don't let them get out!"
"Don't let your daughter near them!"
"Are they safe?"

Their constant worry that I would somehow put my own child in danger...it drives me nuts...

Believe me, you have my sympathy. Unless it's a person's job (ie: my ex-wife's social worker), or someone is just plain socially ignorant (or drunk), the only person who questions my ability to parent my children is my mother. And she's done so ever since the day my son was born. She says such endearing things like, "I know how you turned out, and I want to make sure that you aren't going to screw this up."

Yeah mom, I know how I turned out too!!! That's why I'm not listening. ;P

From her, I frequently get asked, "When are you going to stop this foolish venture?" Followed by the immediate pointing out that, "These are animals you can't control, and could potentially hurt you or the children." Well, both of my cats could hurt me alot worse, nor will they allow themselves to be controlled.......and she's never complained about either one of them.

She is getting better about the comments and more accepting of this hobby, though. Especially after I pointed out that she will be on her deathbed long before my RoseHair will be on hers.

 

[Xian]

Yeah mom, I know how I turned out too!!! That's why I'm not listening. ;P

Too Funny!!!! And True!!!!

 

[pouchedrat]

LOL my first T was a v-day gift from my fiance to me, and I picked it out and ordered it myself. He went around work telling everyone I was the easiest person to shop for (which, I am! just let me get myself something, a T or a video game and I'm a happy camper).

Everyone at work just shook their heads and pretty much knew what I am like by now, anyway.

 

[Ariel]

I got a good one yestrday (not!) I know its not really a question, more advice, but still, it was definately an eyeroller.

I went into a LPS yesterday to buy some crickets, and I first off I HATE they way they set up their T cages, and even some of their reptiles. And I was talking to my grandmother saying how i wish my two Ts that were in premolt would hurry up and molt, and the lady at the counter butted in and she said "you should spray your tarantula, it will help them molt," so I looked at her and said, "they're not molting yet, they haven't flipped, besides, the ambient humidity should be plenty," I said "well then I wouldn't really consider that premolt" she said. So I preceaded to tell her "Premolt is the stage before they flip to molt when they refuse food and become dull in color and/or their abdomen gets dark." and she just gives me this 'you don't know what the hell you're talking about' look.

 

[georgiasdad]

I am newb to the hobby but the local pet shops reptile/spider/scorp section can always serve to provide a good laugh of two...a young boy looking at a usambara orange baboon asks his dad if he can have it or one like it...Father replies are you kidding me that thing can take down a baboon if you got bit
by it you might make it three steps before you died...the worse part he was serious..same section a while later a guy looking/buying a 3 inch L.Parhybhana asking clerk so do I have to buy budgies now to feed it and if so how often funny thing clerk was getting him prices on the budgies.

 

[Harmony67]

Wow, I guess people I talk to are a bit different....one of my co-workers just asked me if he could buy a T and keep it at my house because his wife is afraid of them.

Someone is going to pay for a T and it's food and housing and I get to keep it???? I wish more wives were scared of spiders!!!!

 

[ZergFront]

LOL! That was excellent.

Try saying that pokie line 10 times fast. LOL!

Why'd you get them? You have two dogs at home.
Tarantulas and dogs are two COMPLETELY different animals.

Can you release them into the garden to eat pests like ladybugs do?
Yeah, probably, but then they will die outside their cage! (cats, birds, humans, cold, etc.)

Do they suck the crickets through the fangs?
I'm nice and show them the mouth with one of the slings that are against the clear box and try best I can to explain how they eat..
Mom : "That sounds... gross."

I don't get annoyed but maybe it's because I'm new in the hobby still compared to a lot of people here who have had to explain things to different people many times. If I could someday get just one person more interested in tarantulas (or at least not hate spiders or dislike them less), that'll make my day. To each his own..

 

[Venari]

Do you bring girls over?
You haven't been bit, cuz your still alive...why do you hold it?
Do they jump at you even when they're in the tank?
Can you mate it with your scorpions?


And of course,
How do you sleep?
Do you keep them together?
Why would you spend 200$ on a bug?

 

[Steve Calceatum]

My roommate brought a new girl over last week (gee...what a surprise), and when he made introductions, they just came right into my room. Not only were they barging in without warning, they did so while I was getting my largest T out to show a friend. Now, my roomie's brain disappears into his pants when women are involved. You'd think that he would give a little warning before introducing his new hopeful conquest to a guy with 16 oversized spiders in his room. This woman jumped 15 feet out of her skin, claiming to be "deathly-allergic to spiders."

Not sure how true her statement was, but she did pluck up the courage to hold one of my T's, and then spent the rest of the night asking me all kinds of questions about my spiders. In fact, the spider experience must have been something else, because she must have forgotten why she came there in the first place. My roomie went to bed an unlucky man way before she left (he passed out, actually), and I've not seen nor heard about this woman since.

 

[WelshTan]

Can you mate it with your scorpions?

I would have replied "yes of course you can just like you can mate a cat with a dog" lol

 

[Scorpendra]

I would have replied "yes of course you can just like you can mate a cat with a dog" lol

the saddest thing is that there are people who'd take you seriously.

 

[Jackuul]

I would have replied "yes of course you can just like you can mate a cat with a dog" lol

That's actually a very accurate way of describing it. Kudos for that (Cats and Dogs are Carnivorans, while Scorps and Ts are both Arachnids).