Spiders give me the hee-bee-jee-bees, but tarantulas, not so much. I still wouldn't touch one and I highly believe in "to each, his own" so kudos to you for enjoying all your lovey hairy tarantulas & showing 'em off...
I've seen tarantulas in the wild, in the Dominican Republic, they live in the ground & when you walk near their hole, they come RIGHT OUT! I think they're being defensive or something. I arrived at night to where I was staying & come to find out the next day, the walls were pretty hole-y & then, to find the tarantulas the next day right outside our rooms in the ground was pretty creepy, I must say. A caged-up tarantula isn't so bad, but not knowing where they are is
very creepy.
Now, I
had to share my loveys...
Here's my TreeFrog when it was a baby (
just turned into a frog), raised from a tadpole. When it got kinda big, I let him/her go. It was just a temporary project for my toddler as a tadpole, but it grew into a very FAR-JUMPING frog! Ha ha... The tadpole came from our backyard, so I figured it safe to be released to there. I think a couple 'o times, he/she's tried to come back in!! Ha ha...
Here's our dog, she's 4 years old and a rescue! When we got her, she had a broken toe and boy was that
a lot of work to keep a bandage on a puppy!
Lots of vet visits to get that bandage put back on!! Don't know what kind of breed she is, the vets & everybody we meet have their guesses, but who knows? Only God. Maybe a Whippet or Greyhound mix? She's pretty big, about 60 lbs. When people ask me what "
kind of dog" I have... I say, "Orange." It usually gets a good laugh.
We also have 3 cats. The two boys are brothers, one's 23 lbs & the other is about 20 lbs. The vet said they'd be healthy at about 17 lbs, so they're pretty big-boned cats as is. I have pics of them somewhere on a disk, not on this computer. They're not very photogenic. Ha ha...
PS: I love seeing ALL the pics. Everybody's furbabies & loveys are GORGEOUS!!