User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-3473686-20140916185300/@comment-3395649-20140917213607

It's not recommended to hold them in the first place. Falling from your hand is a great risk to tarantulas, who are too heavy to have a saving dragline. That's the reason why when moving Ellen to a temporary cage, I prod her into it so I can get to cleaning her normal one.

And this anti-arthropod society needs to die. Seriously, they're not out to get you. Even the so-called "aggressive creatures" first instinct is to run. Heck, it's possible to tame even the Africanized Bee!