Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
How exactly is it affecting their quality of life? Have you asked a spider how his/her quality of life is? Of course not. So how do you judge that their quality of life is inferior to any other ball python. Just because it has a movement that you don't like?
I don't dislike the movement.
In the other thread, they said that their spider was already having problems. Quote:
Anyway, at the last Tucson Reptile Show we purchased 2 hatchling females from a local breeder we know. One, a spider would not eat anything for us and always seemed very skittish and easily stressed (for a ball even). We tried just about everything you can try to get a finicky ball to take a meal. Finally the breeder offered to take her back and get her eating.

If an animal can't control their movements, how happy can they be? It's obvious that when they strike and miss, they aren't trying to miss.