Well, I have always been fascinated by reptiles, and spiders, (at 5 I probably knew enough about snakes and crocodiles to teach a course on them haha...i was a weird little kid...) and around summer of last year I wanted to get a snake. I looked into it, and decided I would need to wait until I had enough money to get it and all the stuff it required. A couple months later my mum's minivan was invaded by salticids. She was absolutely horrified by it, after having a few of them jump on her while she was driving. I thought it was pretty cool, and it was then that the tarantula idea occured to me. So one day soon after the family was dicussing the spiders that had invaded the minivan and I said somewhat jokingly "Oh I should get a pet tarantula!", and too my suprise my mum said she didnt care as long as she would have nothing to do with it. So then a couple of days later I found myself in petco and they had an A. avic and a A. seemani. One of the employees took out the avic and let me hold it (which i did against my own better judgement since I knew it could potentially jump from my hands...) and I decided right then that this was going to be my tarantula. Now here I am today, with a total of 3 T's, all of which are still just as fascinating as ever.