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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghost" data-source="post: 43907" data-attributes="member: 3461">I 100% agree with you on this Threasoid one of the reasons that im anti-handling is not to give the animal rights activists anymore ammunition when it comes to getting the keeping of exotics banned.Here in the UK we already have a thing called the Dangerous Wild Animal Licence(DWAL) which was introduced to stop just anyone from owning animals that were considerd life threatening without keeping them in proper enclosures and not being a public liability,now over the years alot of species have been added that puts alot of exotics out of the reach of quite a few hobbyist due to the cost of the licence and public liability insurance.Now there are currently no Tarantulas on the list of DWAL species but there is a huge list of Scorpions on it and alot of them don't have anymore powerful venom than say S.calceatum or H.macs do so it wouldn't take too many people to get bit by one of them and have to vist the ER for them to get added to the DWAL list.This is something that people should consider when they talk about handling that it could end up putting the whole hobby at risk just for the sake of them wanting to hold a big hairy spider....</blockquote>