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<blockquote data-quote="Tabitha" data-source="post: 165742" data-attributes="member: 27934"><p>Welcome! I’m another serious arachnophobe turned serious arachnoholic!</p><p>I almost DID burn my house down when I saw a spider, I’m not joking! If I saw one, I Wouldn’t enter a room for weeks until I knew it was dead! I’d have nightmares about spiders and wake up and check the room Incase it was real!! </p><p>Now I have 25 or so and I’ve never loved keeping any animal as much as these, absolutely fascinating! They all live in my bedroom! A matter of feet away from my bed!</p><p>I have very sensitive skin but have never had any trouble with the urticating hairs, sensible precautions apply of course.</p><p>i started off with a Phiddipus Regal jumping spider, you can’t fail to love these! A great spider to fall in love with!</p><p>then got a B hamorii juv and wondered what on Earth I had done as I couldnt even look at it without feeling so ill! after the shock wore off I had the pleasure of watching it dig a tunnel and excavate soil and I was enchanted and realised they are only scary when you don’t give them a chance, but watch them, study how they feed and drink and spin webs and I swear you will see a whole different world.</p><p>I have a wonderful cuddly Chalcodes, shes slow and on show a lot. I don’t handle any though.</p><p>i now just have dreams about spiders, where one is on me but I calmly pick it up and remove it! what a change!</p><p>Im still not happy seeing a house spider but I cope so much better and life is much easier!</p><p>Good luck!</p><p>I don’t handle mine or encourage others, but I did go to an animal show and got to handle one, I wanted to put to rest a lifetime of fear from spiders and I did it!! A proud and fun day! </p><p>[ATTACH=full]43672[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tabitha, post: 165742, member: 27934"] Welcome! I’m another serious arachnophobe turned serious arachnoholic! I almost DID burn my house down when I saw a spider, I’m not joking! If I saw one, I Wouldn’t enter a room for weeks until I knew it was dead! I’d have nightmares about spiders and wake up and check the room Incase it was real!! Now I have 25 or so and I’ve never loved keeping any animal as much as these, absolutely fascinating! They all live in my bedroom! A matter of feet away from my bed! I have very sensitive skin but have never had any trouble with the urticating hairs, sensible precautions apply of course. i started off with a Phiddipus Regal jumping spider, you can’t fail to love these! A great spider to fall in love with! then got a B hamorii juv and wondered what on Earth I had done as I couldnt even look at it without feeling so ill! after the shock wore off I had the pleasure of watching it dig a tunnel and excavate soil and I was enchanted and realised they are only scary when you don’t give them a chance, but watch them, study how they feed and drink and spin webs and I swear you will see a whole different world. I have a wonderful cuddly Chalcodes, shes slow and on show a lot. I don’t handle any though. i now just have dreams about spiders, where one is on me but I calmly pick it up and remove it! what a change! Im still not happy seeing a house spider but I cope so much better and life is much easier! Good luck! I don’t handle mine or encourage others, but I did go to an animal show and got to handle one, I wanted to put to rest a lifetime of fear from spiders and I did it!! A proud and fun day! [ATTACH type="full"]43672[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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