Quote Originally Posted by Crowfingers View Post
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.
I agree that there is no good reason to have an animal that may have a low quality of life. I just think people group all spiders as having that when in reality, 1 in 1000 might have a severe enough wobble to affect their qol. For most spiders the wobble is so nonexistent that they have exactly the same qol as any other ball python. That is what I think is sad, the misunderstanding. The people that have owned spiders know this but now we have all these people preaching how bad spiders are that have never even owned one but just jumped on the ban wagon, some literally talk about banning them which is ridiculous.

But in regards to your situation, and anyone else really, it is your choice. There are so many other beautiful options that it doesn't really matter if you don't want a spider. I just wish people would make that decision based on liking another morph better, not because of a false reputation that the spider has now become known for.