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<blockquote data-quote="Jenniferinfl" data-source="post: 198615" data-attributes="member: 37398"><p>You don't have to feel guilty about the huntsman if you mean Heteropoda venatoria. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Seriously, I'm constantly rescuing those fools from my cats cause they keep coming in my house. There's a bajillion of them. They reproduce a lot and a bunch of them survive. I have three of them in jars that I rescued from my cats just this week. As soon as they are feeding again, I'll release them back outside. If I walked around and really checked all the corners in my house, I could probably find several more.</p><p></p><p>I didn't realize how many people like them as pets, I probably should be gathering them and breeding them. They do have a pretty awesome feeding response, so I get it. I have one that lost a leg that I've kept through a couple molts and it now has all it's legs again. That guy can eat a medium cricket almost everyday. It's crazy how much faster their metabolisms are. They just live life in fast-forward compared to tarantulas. </p><p></p><p>But yeah, if you are just a pet owner who isn't going to breed your tarantulas, then skipping wild caught is probably a nice thing to do. I bought wild caught when I first started in the hobby, I just didn't know about it either. I think we're so used to hamsters and leopard geckos and so on that we just don't even think that someone would still be gathering pets out of the wild. It's why I won't own a hermit crab even though I think they're pretty much the cutest little guys ever. As soon as someone regularly captive breeds them though, I'll be buying.. lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jenniferinfl, post: 198615, member: 37398"] You don't have to feel guilty about the huntsman if you mean Heteropoda venatoria. :) Seriously, I'm constantly rescuing those fools from my cats cause they keep coming in my house. There's a bajillion of them. They reproduce a lot and a bunch of them survive. I have three of them in jars that I rescued from my cats just this week. As soon as they are feeding again, I'll release them back outside. If I walked around and really checked all the corners in my house, I could probably find several more. I didn't realize how many people like them as pets, I probably should be gathering them and breeding them. They do have a pretty awesome feeding response, so I get it. I have one that lost a leg that I've kept through a couple molts and it now has all it's legs again. That guy can eat a medium cricket almost everyday. It's crazy how much faster their metabolisms are. They just live life in fast-forward compared to tarantulas. But yeah, if you are just a pet owner who isn't going to breed your tarantulas, then skipping wild caught is probably a nice thing to do. I bought wild caught when I first started in the hobby, I just didn't know about it either. I think we're so used to hamsters and leopard geckos and so on that we just don't even think that someone would still be gathering pets out of the wild. It's why I won't own a hermit crab even though I think they're pretty much the cutest little guys ever. As soon as someone regularly captive breeds them though, I'll be buying.. lol [/QUOTE]
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