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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver.macaroons" data-source="post: 208640" data-attributes="member: 38104"><p>That's my thoughts like when I feel I am ready to add them to my collection I will be responsible and careful about it. I don't think the risks to a responsible and experienced keeper are enough to not get one just because you live alone. I think she hears medically significant and thinks that means it's basically a bomb that could go off at any moment. It did make me realize that I don't even really know what that means and when I Google searched it it said "medically significant" means its potentially lethal but I never heard about someone getting killed by a tarantula even a old world.</p></blockquote><p></p>