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<blockquote data-quote="Casey K." data-source="post: 157537" data-attributes="member: 1090"><p>My son handles them (of course under my supervision). He loves spiders. I teach him not to be fearful and to be responsible. There is one downfall to this, though and I find it a bit funny and disturbing at the same time.....though he will handle a tarantula and allow it crawl all over him....he is scared to DEATH of a molt! I mean shaking, screaming, crying kind of scared....very fearful. I ask him why and he says "because spiders take their clothes off and I don't like that".... lol....he has mentioned the tarsal claws on the molt "poking" him or feeling "scratchy". I am trying my damndest to get him to overcome his fear of molts and I've tried everything from soothing him, explaining what the molt is and why tarantulas do it....the entire process.... a bit uncanny. Lol. He doesn't like snake shed, either. He'll hold a snake all day long and say how cute it is.....but absolutely will not touch a snake skin. My daughter could care less for ANY of it. She doesn't even like my cresties....lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Casey K., post: 157537, member: 1090"] My son handles them (of course under my supervision). He loves spiders. I teach him not to be fearful and to be responsible. There is one downfall to this, though and I find it a bit funny and disturbing at the same time.....though he will handle a tarantula and allow it crawl all over him....he is scared to DEATH of a molt! I mean shaking, screaming, crying kind of scared....very fearful. I ask him why and he says "because spiders take their clothes off and I don't like that".... lol....he has mentioned the tarsal claws on the molt "poking" him or feeling "scratchy". I am trying my damndest to get him to overcome his fear of molts and I've tried everything from soothing him, explaining what the molt is and why tarantulas do it....the entire process.... a bit uncanny. Lol. He doesn't like snake shed, either. He'll hold a snake all day long and say how cute it is.....but absolutely will not touch a snake skin. My daughter could care less for ANY of it. She doesn't even like my cresties....lol. [/QUOTE]
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