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Inspired by the "How many tarantulas do you have? thread...
Is there a border one crosses between collecting and being a hoarder? I mean, if a woman has fifty cats, she might be referred to as a "crazy cat lady" (men can have lots of cats too, but the meme is usually directed towards women. That's a different discussion though).
So is there a theoretical number where one becomes an animal hoarder? is there a point where you can have so many T's that they no longer pets or a hobby and actually just things being hoarded? Many folks joke about the addiction, but does it in reality become an actual addiction, with "addiction" being in the sense that keeping the spiders actually becomes detrimental to one's mental health? Naturally those in it for business purposes would not really count, that is more a case of turning a hobby into something (hopefully) lucrative.
I'm not judging, I have a very small selection and before I got the additions, I really felt no compulsion to get more. But now I find myself thinking "I'd really sort of like to have a G. pulchra or a B. albopilosum..." So I can understand the desire to want to have a lot of tarantulas.
Is there a border one crosses between collecting and being a hoarder? I mean, if a woman has fifty cats, she might be referred to as a "crazy cat lady" (men can have lots of cats too, but the meme is usually directed towards women. That's a different discussion though).
So is there a theoretical number where one becomes an animal hoarder? is there a point where you can have so many T's that they no longer pets or a hobby and actually just things being hoarded? Many folks joke about the addiction, but does it in reality become an actual addiction, with "addiction" being in the sense that keeping the spiders actually becomes detrimental to one's mental health? Naturally those in it for business purposes would not really count, that is more a case of turning a hobby into something (hopefully) lucrative.
I'm not judging, I have a very small selection and before I got the additions, I really felt no compulsion to get more. But now I find myself thinking "I'd really sort of like to have a G. pulchra or a B. albopilosum..." So I can understand the desire to want to have a lot of tarantulas.