A friend of my parents used to keep one and let me play with it when I was a kid.
Should it have been milked for venom to avoid being dangerous?
Seeing as they kept it in a lunch box and were smelly hippies I don't think they were doing that.
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Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:29,
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Seeing as they kept it in a lunch box and were smelly hippies I don't think they were doing that.
if it was a mexican red-knee, then no
their fangs are too small for them to bite us, the only real danger they pose is from an allergic reaction to the hairs they shed on you to irritate you if they're frightened or angry.
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I thought they could bite, but no worse than a wasp or bee sting?
Our school used to have one. We were warned against rubbing our eyes after touching it because of the irritant hairs.
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Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:38,
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Ah that's ok then.
Tru-fax i've been bitten by a spider on the tube and didn't get super-powers.
I felt slightly cheated.
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I felt slightly cheated.