I respect your feelings about spiders. I think they are a beautiful morph and people who breed them and like them have that right.
I just don't want a pet that *could* corkscrew and writhe around at every feeding because of excitement- even mild missed strikes or clumsy positioning - it makes me sad to watch. We say they are fine and non-painful, and whether we are right or wrong in that I don't know - but the ability and willingness to eat and breed does not equal QOL to me personally.
I would not own a blue pit, boston terrier, bulldog, or dachshund, and sooo many other purebred dogs for the same reasons. 95% are perfectly lovely dogs with some minor issues that are completely manageable and that don't effect their quality of life at all, others develop the worst chronic skin /allergy issues / neurological problems that do affect their QOL - and you don't know which will have these issues when they are puppies...all pets have some risk involved, I'm just minimizing mine as much as possible in this respect.
No cage is too large - nature is the best template - a snoot can't be booped too much
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