Pet tarantula or snake

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#1

My daughter turns 6 this Thursday, and she wants one of these.

Anybody have any experience? Thoughts or opinions?

#2

Michael Scott in a pet shop. So true. Snakes are gross! :P :)

#3

I had both, but then my python ate the tarantula. Then an AFer walked in and out of irony enacted a ‘man eating live snake’.

Sadly, now both are dead.

#4

^ There’s an entire thread dedicated to eating snakes on AF. If I recall correctly, it’s a great thread.

#5

I caught a Black Widow in the field when I was a kid and held it in the jail until my neighbors had reported me to the cops.

#6

I’d get the tarantula. They’re cool.

#7

I’d go for the tarantula too. Haven’t you seen the movie Home Alone; if you accidently leave your daughter at home while going on a vacation she could put it on a robber to escape a home invasion.

#8

Do Tarantula eat mosquitoes? If so, I will purchase one.

#9

she is 6 man. she will lose interest in it after 2 weeks. the question is which one do you prefer to handle over the long term?

i’d go with a goldfish and then apologize for grossly misremembering.

#10

never met a girl who kept tarantulas and snakes as a kid come out normal. sorry greenie. fight the future!

#11

i agree but would say any kid, male or female, is probably going to grow up a bit different. My bros a prime example of that - love him to death - but certainly a strange character.

#12

Let them duke it out in a “Thunderdome”, then keep the winner. 2 pets enter…

#OnePetLeaves

#13

I vote for tarantula!

#14

Did… Did you eat it?

#15

The girls that have those for pets… Well let’s not get into that out of respect for greenie. But let’s just say they are the fReAkIeSt

#16

A snake literally has no emotions and im not talking in that hard to get manner cats behave. They wired not to feel anything

Da fk she want that as a pet for?

#17

^Because she’s six.

And the Abilene (Texas) zoo just got a new tarantula in the reptile house, so she saw it and got curious about it.

We already have a dog, three cats, two box turtles in the yard, three hermit crabs, and a family of mockingbirds that whine for mealworms on a daily basis.

#18

^ oh. In that case, I would say no more animals.

#19

Just get her a nice hissing cockroach or something.