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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tabitha" data-source="post: 154913" data-attributes="member: 27934">That’s amazing, thank you, so interesting to see how many spider keepers had issues with them! That’s a lot of Ts and it’s brilliant to read!A friend of mine was the same as you and also me, we both started out with T keeping at the same time and she was as scared as me I think, and now she has at least 10 too and loves them! I’m sorry but I did laugh about the wooden spoons! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> That’s a funny thought but thank you for your story, you are so right, we do learn from out parents, my father had kept snakes in the past so one of my first pets was a snake so I never had any trouble with them but also spiders are always shown in a bad light in films and it doesn’t help human/tarantula relations does it!I’ve heard Phiddipus jumpers are quite often, like mine, a way into watching and keeping spiders, they are so endearing it’s hard to be scared of them. Thank you all.</blockquote>