Jeff23
Arachnolord
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- Jul 27, 2016
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I think you are right in general. There are too many people who love to judge other people's lives without looking in the mirror. I think all of us are guilty at times.I like how everyone reads a simple for sale posting and automatically knows another person's life. You don't know this person. Anything you might think you glean of their life based on a for sale post is just really just speculation. I see this all the time. I've often seen people read a FB posts and make judgments on other people as if they know everything the other person is facing. You don't know, I don't know. Making up some narrative to fit what you want to believe has happened is kinda lame.
When I was on the road for work it was often for weeks (up to 3) at the time. So, yes, I would have to get rid of my Ts were that to happen regardless of how much I enjoy keeping them. Lucky for me that is not likely to happen.
Yes, people often get pets only to find they are unwilling to care for them. I don't like it but it happens. I've ended up with several pets because their owners didn't want to care for them any longer.
As far as the price, if they are selling it with an enclosure and other things it's not unreasonable to ask for more than the T alone is worth. It's like any other listing on for sale sites. Everyone often places it priced higher and you work out a price using haggle skills. It's like this with everything (not just pets) and if you pay listing price for something on site like that you're kinda cheating yourself.
But this is just for a single T. If they are having to travel for extended time periods I would hope they would give away the T if they can't take care of it properly due to not being present. It is also very possible that the individual is misinformed on care for their tarantula and is spending extra time trying to meet humidity and temperature precision levels that are on our favorite care sheet sites.
Edit* not sure how this got above my quote but it wasn't meant to be there
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