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HopeHoops

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28. Yeah, well, hermit crabs pinch sometimes too, but it is mostly social.
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 07:31 PM
Mar 2012

Our rabbit (a hermaphrodite cottontail I rescued as a kit) rarely bites at all, and only when I'm checking his teeth. He's never broken the skin with his teeth. His claws are lethal. I used to look like a heroin junkie. He rarely breaks the skin anymore, but he is coming up on six years old.

On Edit: and the only type of spider I don't like is the little black kind with the tiny abdomens and big blue or green teeth looking things in front (not teeth by the way). They LOVE human blood and particularly your back - a nice little trail of nibbles that itch for weeks.

I'll handle any other kind including tarantulas. I've never seen a brown recluse, but there's a reason they are called that. Black widows aren't in my field of personal experience.

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Uh...fuck that!! Systematic Chaos Feb 2012 #1
I can't imagine the shoe you would need. Saying that and having grown up in a house filled roguevalley Feb 2012 #10
Big Spider TheMastersNemesis Mar 2012 #13
"I can't imagine the shoe you would need" Maven Mar 2012 #14
Poor critter....nc Piasladic Mar 2012 #32
Their a little horrid looking ,but orpupilofnature57 Feb 2012 #2
Kind of sad...eom Kolesar Feb 2012 #3
Yes. Very sad..... glinda Mar 2012 #11
Cool! Nt xchrom Feb 2012 #4
AAAAAH! MAKE IT GO AWAY!!! laconicsax Feb 2012 #5
Even New York City cockroaches would run from those things Auggie Feb 2012 #6
I think I saw those things in Peter Jackson's King Kong. Downtown Hound Feb 2012 #7
now do they *taste* like lobster, that is the question. nt yodermon Feb 2012 #8
I'm glad it's rare. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2012 #9
Is Lord Howe island still infested with rats? Motown_Johnny Mar 2012 #12
They've already bred them in captivity Canuckistanian Mar 2012 #18
the only thing scarier than those bugs is the pnwest Mar 2012 #15
They shouldn't have released this news parkia00 Mar 2012 #16
Phil Phil1934 Mar 2012 #17
Apparently, handling them leads to uni-brows. FredStembottom Mar 2012 #19
Breaking News ... GiveMeFreedom Mar 2012 #20
Quick - where's the Flit? LiberalEsto Mar 2012 #21
Unibrow alert! Ratty Mar 2012 #22
torn between grossed out and sadness magical thyme Mar 2012 #23
Fuckin radiation. progressoid Mar 2012 #24
It's cool and all, and I don't have a problem with them being around AtheistCrusader Mar 2012 #25
They won't bite you anymore than a praying mantis or a walking stick would. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #26
I've been told that about various insects before. AtheistCrusader Mar 2012 #27
Yeah, well, hermit crabs pinch sometimes too, but it is mostly social. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #28
video of one hatching... n2doc Mar 2012 #29
Bugs! Solly Mack Mar 2012 #30
That thing is sooo cool in venere veritas Mar 2012 #31
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