And what? Get the phobia injection? I’m afraid it’s not that easy. Some are uncurable, some are manageable, some can be removed, but I honestly don’t believe you need a doctor for it.
Nice summary of a tarantula, but for one thing- the urticating hairs are on the abdomen, they use their 4th set of legs to flick them out. Tgats why sometimes in zoos you see them with bald patches on the abdomen
I don’t mind tarantulas as much cos they’re slow and furry. It’s the small ones with spindly legs that go really fast! I have calmed myself a bit by giving them names based on size and talking to them, house rules are no moving in front of me and no being on the ceiling!!!
Also I think snakes are beautiful and I have great respect for them.
I miss the banana spiders from Florida… Big spiders… but nowhere as dangerous as these little fellas…
Always had to check for them when we went looking for firewood or doing yard work.
My closest experience with a snake was when a cottonmouth was in my back yard and my dogs were barking at it, got them inside and called the City Animal control, they came and bagged it and released it into the swamp about two miles from where I lived at the time. No idea how it got there, it was the first time I saw one in like 3 years living in that neighbourhood. If it bit me it wouldn’t have killed me but it would have killed my dogs and given me a lot of pain and medical bills.