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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pokie99" data-source="post: 41684" data-attributes="member: 3501"><p>Tarantulas don't have a nervous system like ours and don't feel pain like us (imagine yourself tearing your leg off in a critical situation). A little wound like this can stop bleeding by itself. If it doesn't stop, the tarantula will tear its leg off. It will otherwise bleed to death. There's a valve at the top of each leg so after the leg comes off, the bleeding stops (something like making a tight knot around your leg if you're bleeding heavily). Then it regenerates it in the course of two molts (unfortunately, yours is a mature male and won't have that chance). If it continues to bleed, put a small drop of glue on the wound.</p></blockquote><p></p>