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Message: <blockquote data-quote="octanejunkie" data-source="post: 202514" data-attributes="member: 3872">[USER=28438]@Stan Schultz[/USER] props to you and all the good work you've done in and for the hobby. Keep your updated tomes coming, sir![USER=1152]@Tomoran[/USER] speakers the truth. People tend to project on others what they want from the relationship. We do this with humans and animals alike. The best training for a tarantula as a pet, IMO, is keeping an aquarium. While the fish may react to your presence and rituals, they do not know you, love you or need you - and you can't handle them like a cat or dog. Keeping a tarantula is very much the same  as keeping an aquarium with one exception, the big box of water.Sadly, for the dog and cat crowd, a tarantula will never love you and respond with joy at your arrival; but if you can be content with observing and keeping them successfully you'll be rewarded with a healthy and long-lived tarantula. And you won't get bitten doing dumb stuff.</blockquote>