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<blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 223795" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>The only time our get handled is when someone has a fear of spiders/tarantulas & we try to help. So once or twice a year at the very most. Or when one of our T's insists on leaving it's enclosure as we feed, transfer them between enclosures etc etc. </p><p></p><p>I almost never use tweezers etc to encourage a T back into it's enclosure, I use my hand, so some of my T's experience human contact regularly at feeding time. But to have a T on me is very rare & almost always, it's at the sling, or less commonly at juvi stages when they are more skittish & prone to running out of the enclosure, rather than for cover within the enclosure.</p><p></p><p>We have a few T's who we tend to care for through small windows in the enclosure lids, as they are our most prone to making a run for it. All of them are new worlds. We just do not want to put them at risk during feeding & other care.</p><p></p><p>My largest LP, whose last molt was just over 8.5 inches, regularly climbs up to the top of her enclosure at feeding time etc. And has no aversion to my hand & will often continue to climb when I put my hand in front of her. But usually chooses to stop & never chooses to climb onto my hand within the enclosure.</p><p></p><p>Think of your T as a water filled ballon. As that is what the body of your T is like. Now drop that T from a few inches & image what happens.</p><p></p><p>Handling T's is for the keeper's pleasure. Not the T's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="m0lsx, post: 223795, member: 29323"] The only time our get handled is when someone has a fear of spiders/tarantulas & we try to help. So once or twice a year at the very most. Or when one of our T's insists on leaving it's enclosure as we feed, transfer them between enclosures etc etc. I almost never use tweezers etc to encourage a T back into it's enclosure, I use my hand, so some of my T's experience human contact regularly at feeding time. But to have a T on me is very rare & almost always, it's at the sling, or less commonly at juvi stages when they are more skittish & prone to running out of the enclosure, rather than for cover within the enclosure. We have a few T's who we tend to care for through small windows in the enclosure lids, as they are our most prone to making a run for it. All of them are new worlds. We just do not want to put them at risk during feeding & other care. My largest LP, whose last molt was just over 8.5 inches, regularly climbs up to the top of her enclosure at feeding time etc. And has no aversion to my hand & will often continue to climb when I put my hand in front of her. But usually chooses to stop & never chooses to climb onto my hand within the enclosure. Think of your T as a water filled ballon. As that is what the body of your T is like. Now drop that T from a few inches & image what happens. Handling T's is for the keeper's pleasure. Not the T's. [/QUOTE]
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