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Tarantula in mouth? Handling Q’s
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<blockquote data-quote="Cody-Myles" data-source="post: 161927" data-attributes="member: 27027"><p>Here's my input:</p><p></p><p>In regards to handling, i'm neither for nor against. Personally, i've kept T's for only 2 ½ years and handled my G Pulchripes twice in that time, the other 10 I have are either too skittish, too defensive or too venomous to go near with my hands without risk of hairs or a nasty bite, so I just don't touch them.</p><p></p><p>In the mouth... Risky business for both, yes. This has been done countless times by multiple people from your everyday to big corporate TV producers, it has been done on Fear Factor and I'm A Celebrity so don't anyone pretend it's one of the first times this has been done, maybe call Endemol or NBC out online for doing it or ITV?, believe me that would do nothing to stop them and end in cops at your door. Fat-cats using animals to make money will continue because of the volume of moronic idiots out there that lap it up. That includes that Billie Eilish video, they were real spiders, looked like juvenile Nephila to me and maybe G Pulchra's.</p><p>Remember how we got Tarantulas in the hobby in the first place, by giving money to people to dig them out of their secure, safe burrows in the wild and ship them across the world in boxes so we could have them in our homes and that continues today with wild-caught T's we buy, nobody's hands are clean here.</p><p>Ultimately, spiders don't remember the event so they're not scarred for life, if they had the capacity to learn from events they'd stop climbing to heights they fall from time after time that could potentially kill them, they're primitive animals.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't personally do it or like the idea of it but if it's something you are determined to do, you'll do it.</p><p>I would suggest that if it's for digital media and you're a dab-hand at photoshop, superimpose one, everyones a winner. A tarantula wouldn't know whether it was in a hand, mouth or ass but is more than prepared to kick or bite to defend itself so be warned.</p><p></p><p>I'm not advocating for this T-in-mouth stunt, i'm just shining a light on the bigger reality of what humans do to animals for entertainment or personal gain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cody-Myles, post: 161927, member: 27027"] Here's my input: In regards to handling, i'm neither for nor against. Personally, i've kept T's for only 2 ½ years and handled my G Pulchripes twice in that time, the other 10 I have are either too skittish, too defensive or too venomous to go near with my hands without risk of hairs or a nasty bite, so I just don't touch them. In the mouth... Risky business for both, yes. This has been done countless times by multiple people from your everyday to big corporate TV producers, it has been done on Fear Factor and I'm A Celebrity so don't anyone pretend it's one of the first times this has been done, maybe call Endemol or NBC out online for doing it or ITV?, believe me that would do nothing to stop them and end in cops at your door. Fat-cats using animals to make money will continue because of the volume of moronic idiots out there that lap it up. That includes that Billie Eilish video, they were real spiders, looked like juvenile Nephila to me and maybe G Pulchra's. Remember how we got Tarantulas in the hobby in the first place, by giving money to people to dig them out of their secure, safe burrows in the wild and ship them across the world in boxes so we could have them in our homes and that continues today with wild-caught T's we buy, nobody's hands are clean here. Ultimately, spiders don't remember the event so they're not scarred for life, if they had the capacity to learn from events they'd stop climbing to heights they fall from time after time that could potentially kill them, they're primitive animals. I wouldn't personally do it or like the idea of it but if it's something you are determined to do, you'll do it. I would suggest that if it's for digital media and you're a dab-hand at photoshop, superimpose one, everyones a winner. A tarantula wouldn't know whether it was in a hand, mouth or ass but is more than prepared to kick or bite to defend itself so be warned. I'm not advocating for this T-in-mouth stunt, i'm just shining a light on the bigger reality of what humans do to animals for entertainment or personal gain. [/QUOTE]
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