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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Levites" data-source="post: 210431" data-attributes="member: 11901">No reason to be frightened.My post was intended to inform, and not create fear.As someone mentioned earlier, you are in much more danger from a pet dog than from any pet tarantula.Or to look at it another way . . . you are in much more danger from the ticks that a pet dog could bring in your house from certain diseases, and a condition called tick paralysis (from a toxic protein in tick saliva) then you could ever be from any pet tarantula.</blockquote>