Meet Oscar my new pet

[Catherine]

Thank-you for understanding. Oscar is beautiful for what he is and truthfully, I find him fascinating. No, I don't understand him and that is what is so special. If I am going to relate to Oscar, it must be on his terms in his world.

I think back to when I had my first Tarantula, Mr Many Legs. I wish I could remember exactly how I said it, but who is to say that some animals are more deserving of our love than others. Why is it that we see one animal as loveable and we hate another. We share our lives with one pet, but reject another creature as unacceptable.
We label some creatures as scary or dangerous with out actually looking at whether they are actually dangerous.

At any rate, Mr Many Legs was a baby tarantula and his whole litter was in a bad situation and were not likely to survive. I found that yes I could have strong maternal feelings for any baby, even when that baby was a baby tarantula. I rescued him and arranged for the rest of the litter to be rescued.

Sadly Mr Many Legs was lost six months later. I did give him six good months, but he should have had much more.