To truely explain my thoughts I should tell you something about myself.
I
have always had cats as pets. Also rabbits once. Fluffy animals, looking for contact. You
can touch them and they demand food, water and other things twice a day
as a minimum. I really love touching animals and petting them. I like feeling their warmth a lot and I feel like they can comfort me no matter how bad the situation I'm in is. So it's all about contact, touching and feelings. A bond you build.
A tarantula on the other hand just jerks around all day.
(Well, mine do.) There is no specific connection between you and your
tarantula. You don't have to feed it every day. It doesn't really make
sounds. It is just there, doing stuff and things and being very very
boring to be honest. There are times where the tarantula won't move for
days. And then there are days when it starts climbing the walls of the
terrarium and doing stupid stuff all day like attacking their watering.
I
heard giving animals a name helps connecting to them, so I did. But
Calypso is still some kind of a walking decoration in my room. After a
whole year. So please don't demand attention or love from a tarantula.
This won't make you happy.
Plus, I never took her out
of her terrarium to place her on my hand. It is very stressful for them,
so please don't do this or just very seldom.
It turned
out most of my friends and family aren't as scared of them as I thought
they'd be. I guess it has something to do with the so called fear of
the unknown, but I'm not sure about it. Might be your parents or friends
kill your tarantula in an instant, so be careful.
