man feeding my spider for the first time was a mess!! He wouldn't take F/T and was coming out of an RI (that he had when I bought him) so we got him a live small rat. Strike and miss and thumped his little head on the back of the tub and then started striking at anything that moved (which happened to be me) good thing I was far enough back. Charlie sits with his head tilted to the right almost always and get's a little corkscrewy when he's being held but seems to do fine when he's slithering around on a surface.

We do plan on breeding him (if he'd ever make a move on Big Momma)