Chris LXXIX
ArachnoGod
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Actually I was only replying, man. (re)read :-sYou really want to go into this, in a thread where a newbie was just asking whether a molt was okay or not?
Fine...
I'm totally okay with keeping crickets / worms / flies/ etc. as feeders (hell, I even bred mice as snake-food for a time). The way I see it is: We're able to play favorites, because we're human, and in control. I had pet rats -and- pet mice at the same time I was breeding mice as feeders. I picked out the ones I either liked because of their color or personality and kept them apart from the rest, who were destined to be food.
I find all invertebrates fascinating, even crickets (though I like grasshoppers more). I don't feel an ounce of guilt dropping a few into my Latrodectus' web though, because they're not my pets, the black-widow is, and the crickets are her food. It's a necessary evil in a world of arbitrary injustices.
As for the "giant scooping you up and how would YOU like it..." scenario; Yeah, that'd be terrifying.
Good thing Tarantulas don't have the same emotional capacity as we do, eh?
If you want to argue that they do, then constant exposure would reduce it to the point of familiarity, same way that I'm trying to acclimate my hatchling snapping turtle to human contact by handling him a couple times a week, and letting him know that me picking him up doesn't mean I want to eat him.
I've replied to a comment made by Arachnomaniac19 about handling, then I've replied to yours. I didn't start that argument (IMO nothing bad about, btw).
If someone wants to handle, then handle. If someone loves to think that, after a lot of handling, they can become more "tolerant" to that or else, fine. I stated only my opinion about this issue and, it doesn't matter their "intelligence/feelings" or else, everyone knows, as a fact, that they don't need that.