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<blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 121672" data-attributes="member: 26980"><p>I guess one thing cats have in their favor is origin. The ancestors of modern domestic cats were African wild cats, pictured in the art of Egypt in the ancient world.</p><p></p><p>One would hope that they have some inborn resistance to old world baboon tarantula venom carried within the genetics since both have lived there for millions of years. Conflict must've occurred along the way in evolution.</p><p></p><p>Still, many OW are Asian like pokies which might have very different chemical formulas in the venom.</p><p></p><p>Nyx's reactions to toys shaped like rubber spiders and others is very strong and anything with that shape is treated with extreme prejudice.</p><p></p><p>Since she was abandoned at such a young age, I suspect she was eating insects and spiders to survive, not just the all to common Baltimore rats.</p><p></p><p>I hope to never find out!!</p><p></p><p>The persistent roach problem might've or not been based on someone else's roach feeders that got out, centipede food run amok.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whitelightning777, post: 121672, member: 26980"] I guess one thing cats have in their favor is origin. The ancestors of modern domestic cats were African wild cats, pictured in the art of Egypt in the ancient world. One would hope that they have some inborn resistance to old world baboon tarantula venom carried within the genetics since both have lived there for millions of years. Conflict must've occurred along the way in evolution. Still, many OW are Asian like pokies which might have very different chemical formulas in the venom. Nyx's reactions to toys shaped like rubber spiders and others is very strong and anything with that shape is treated with extreme prejudice. Since she was abandoned at such a young age, I suspect she was eating insects and spiders to survive, not just the all to common Baltimore rats. I hope to never find out!! The persistent roach problem might've or not been based on someone else's roach feeders that got out, centipede food run amok. [/QUOTE]
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