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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fuzzball79" data-source="post: 59044" data-attributes="member: 3190">In a way I love the fact that Ts are NOT like other "conventional" pets at all. It's part of the attraction of keeping them to discover behaviour and habits you won't find with your other pets.I think, one of the reasons why I caved in getting a spider (originally for my oldest son, but got very fond of them myself) was that other than that I promised him, the deaths of our rats hit me and the kids quite hard and maybe I wanted a pet, that couldn't give a sh***t about its owners and wouldn't even make the effort to bond with us lol. That doesn't mean, I'm not upset if/when one of my Ts dies (I even cried a little for my P. Met sling), but it's no where near as bad as when the rattie-girls died and I can't even accommodate the thought of my 10 year old German Shepherd crossing the rainbow bridge <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />. I hope this makes sense and doesn't come across as unemotional...P.S: I sometimes DO wish I could stroke my Versi's and Rosea's belly though, they look so velvety, lol.</blockquote>