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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 50065" data-attributes="member: 4004"><p>I owned a bearded dragon for 8 years or so, and would definitely agree that they make great pets.  The main reason we bought a tarantula was because they seemed like an interesting, low maintenance pet - not necessarily because we wanted something that would be fun to play with (We have two dogs for that purpose, well... one and a pug anyway.  The pug is probably closer to owning a pig than a dog).  It's difficult to say whether it's stressing him out or not because his behavior inside and outside his terrarium seems fairly consistent and incredibly passive, but I am a little concerned that his eating habits seem to have changed so just to err on the side of caution, we mostly just let him do his spider thing and hang out on top of his log now.</p></blockquote><p></p>