Charley The Free Roaming Jumping Spider - commentary

Charley is one of my Bold Jumping Spiders. There has been a lot of discussion about how to best care for them, set them free, or exterminate them. I wanted to offer a thoughtful follow-up to what I perceive as a personal, and unwarranted attack on Tarantula Kat. She has likely done more than most to educate others and is a true educator and entertaining informer. But the commenter has also caused me to reflect on my own keeping of them. And I wanted to offer this as both support, and introspect. Keeping and caring for them matters to me. And it seems a distorted sense of priorities to spend so much time criticizing keepers and educators, who likely save countless numbers of them from fires, floods, or intentional extermination. She and others like her change minds, and even cure phobias. So while this lacks the production value that Tarantula Kat often puts into her entertaining and informative series, I hope she and others might find some value in it.