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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spider-Matt" data-source="post: 41584" data-attributes="member: 3235">I can change a spiders personality.I have even done it with wild spiders and I've done it with aggressive water snakes as well.now there is the possibility that if I were to have gotten the spider to become very docile to the human touch and affectionate massage of the abdomen, and then left the spider alone for a month or more, it would go back to being just as aggressive but I've never done that.  Spiders are smarter than you give them credit for.There are spiders that can live most of their time underwater by creating scuba diving gear out of a web that captures air and oxygen!</blockquote>