Anybody else?

[Claire Beckett]

Now, I absolutely adore my ts but everyone thinks its really strange because I'm also absolutely petrified of house spiders or other true spiders and always have been. There was one on my living room wall last night and I was scared to death but yet my 5 gorgeous ts were in the next room. Does anyone else find this is the case?

[michaelmckinney]

Hey Claire,

That is a strange one indeed LOL. My love of spiders started at a very young age, when I used collect spiders in jars and feed Garden Spiders in my garden. Then I started keeping Tegenaria Gigantea (Cobweb Spider) in a tank and breeding them all summer, so I'm afraid I can't help you there.

But ti might be something to do with the house spiders having free roam of your house while you are sleeping (even though they wouldn't approach you!!) and you know that your tarantulas are in viv's LOL!!

How did you come to keep tarantulas??

Michael..

[Claire Beckett]

Michael

I just tripped upon some info about them on the web and just became more and more enthralled the more I learned, then handled and got my first and got bit by the bug i suppose, im on no. 5 since October! Always been afraid of house spiders though, ever since I can remember.

[lizwalsh]

Me To

Claire I am exactly the same I absolutley hate house spders, think they're ugly but T's fasinate me and lets face it are beautiful I'm getting my second tomorrow already have a Greenbottle Blue now getting a Pink Toe and cant wait. My mates think I'm a wierdo just for having T's never mind loving them while being afraid of house spiders. You are not alone.

[Colin D Wilson]

There are many many people who can't stand true spiders yet have dozens of tarantulas in a collection (quite a few on here actually)
I assume that in some cases there's a sense of security as the T's are in tanks, but the spiders are free to roam.
Some say the size is a big consideration, my eldest daughter doesn't like house spiders as they are small and quick but doesn't mind a tarantula as it's a bit more methodical in it's movement.

[mary walters]

I'm still scared of all spiders even though we have oooooodles of T's and trues. I can feed and water them but if they get out it's a job for Trev, I shut the door and run.

[matthew spooner]

its the money spiders that i hate, sneaky lil buggers lol

[Clinton Hogben]

Now, I absolutely adore my ts but everyone thinks its really strange because I'm also absolutely petrified of house spiders or other true spiders and always have been. There was one on my living room wall last night and I was scared to death but yet my 5 gorgeous ts were in the next room. Does anyone else find this is the case?

Hi Claire
Yep my missus is the same she has no problems being close to the L para all 9 inches of it but if a house spider is in the bath / on ceiling it must be removed by yours truly IMMEDIATLEY, NOW, THIS INSTANT, STRAIGHT AWAY OR ELSE

my mother was the same as well hated true spiders but ended up with a chillie rose as a pet

your not alone on this one

[Matthew Baines]

i seem too have an attraction too things that i fear and then i just get over it after exposure too it for a while , i am now fearless of anything ( yes im a bit of a massacist) . i want too swim cageless with great white sharks its one of the things i want too do before i die. It was the big spiders i used too find under rocks in my garden that freaked me out , you know the ones with the big fat abdomen , but im fine with them now thanks too tarantulas

[Traci Barker]

Keeping my T's over the last few years have made me less of house spiders than I used to be as I know realistically that can not harm me, and now am the first one there to help save the spider in the bath tub ... but what I can not stand with a passion is bleeming cockroaches Wouldn't be so bad but I have to handle them to feed the T's. My other half laughs that I have to use tweezers. I guess everybody is afraid of something or other.

[Luke Anthony]

Well i must say i love all Ts and true spider's when ever i find a true spider its straight into a jar lol but there is one i run from and its not a spider or a T it's a wasp i hate them it's like they know and when i run they follow lol