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>> What is your source that says that tarantulas feel pain from misting?
>> Here is one sourceTarantula year book form.
>So, what is that supposed to mean?
It was asked of me to state where this information came from so I told a
source of a text doc. where it can be found. This also shows I'm not making
this stuff up.
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>For my versicolors, I'll set the container on a towel, and on a chair.
Then
>open the cage and
>mist from quite a distance, so it falls on them gently. If you start this
>way, you can work your
>way closer and soak them if you want to, with them just sitting there.
Yes, like anything. For example if you start with music low and slowly
increase the volume it will not shock you but it will still cause loss of
hearing if turned up loud enought. No, I'm NOT saying your killing your T's
by getting them wet.
I'm
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>sure these tropical
>spiders in the wild wouldn't be afraid to sit out there in the rain. I
just
>try to imitate how it would start.
I never said water would make a tarantula melt. Cats hate water but still
can live through a bath and must drink it to live. The same for all other
animals water is a must.
You have to mist your versicolors web so they can drink the dew from the
webs. I'm not saying NOT to spray the insides of a enclosure but don't give
tham a bath.
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>I just figure that direct misting when they're not expecting it, is too
much
>stimulation to all their
>sensory hairs, so it just freaks them out and they run for it. To say that
is
>pain is a stretch I think.
I think pain would be a good word, look no one knows what it's like to have
such a sense and fell as many of these animals do. So to put are sense on
the same level as a tarantula is insane. None of use could even relate to
the idea of living like any reptile or spider. Think what it would be like
to see and feel with your tongue as a snake does. It is impossible to
understand that way of life we only can example how it works but not know
the experience. So how could we say what is pain for another.
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