Petco... Now offering 25 species of tarantulas. Thoughts and rants

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BobBarley said:
Sure, but a bite from an OW sling like a Poecilotheria can and will send a child to the ER.
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Or worse, kill a child. It's the same potency, they just usually inject less. Doesn't mean they'll give a full dose if they want to.
 
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billrogers said:
Even if a little kid gets a OBT or ornamental, isn't it most likely to die before reaching maturity because of the despicable care info customers are given? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the baby OWs not as big a threat as adults? Don't get me wrong, an OW in an OW, but it seems that most are going to die long before they are adults with full potency venom?
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No doubts that a sling (let's say a P.murinus) doesn't have the same "impact" a full grow 0.1 P.murinus has, but the venom is and remain powerful.

We don't know, no one knows to be honest, about the effects of certain OW potent venom Theraphosidae such P.ornata, P.murinus etc and childrens.
 
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This is almost as bad as hermit crabs, but with the spiders having potential to seriously hurt people.
 
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cold blood said:
Just based on the sizes of the slings and the care sheets they offer, I feel confident in saying that...THERE IS NO HOPE! There will be only a very small percentage of these spiders they buy and sell that make it even a year. The care sheet is literally one of the worst I have ever seen...and that's standing out amongst thousands of total crap online care sheets.

Their recommended care is despicable.:banghead::banghead: I mean, consult your local vet...wtf is a vet gonna do other than tell them to go away...I can only imagine the look on my vet's face if I brought in my ts for physicals. And to say all inverts are known carriers of infectious disease...where do they get this crap?? Clean out and bleach the enclosures weekly, wtf x 100. I mean I could go on for pages...it is really that bad!
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https://www.petco.com/shop/PetcoCon...e-center/caresheets/tarantula-care-sheet.html
Last line on the page:
"Developed with and approved by a qualified veterinarian."
 
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It appears English is not the linguistic strong point of whoever that Jonard guy is. I really hope that "announcement" was a joke, a vision of wishful thinking, or in some other way incorrect. I cannot even begin to fathom the devastation that some of the species listed could cause if a bunch of your average Joe-know-jack-squat Dudebro types go in there and buy some OBT's for their equally thick headed children only to have them be bitten out of some stupid act of incompetence born from ignorance.
 
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