CAN YOU TRAIN A TARANTULA TO DO THINGS?

My great friend, a Bird Eating Tarantula, the size of a dinner plate, loves to play the Celtic Harp. She will play the Concert Harp, if I am using the Celtic.

Aileen was a resident of our Rain Forest back garden in Innisfail Queensland.

She must have been about 5 years old when we met. Aileen would ride around on my shoulder and she had the run of our house.

Aileen rode on my hair, and she came as close as possible when I played my harp.

After a month, I heard strange sounds from the music room.

Aileen was teaching herself harp.

Aileen would patrol the house for insects then return to her harp.

She spent hours there. With eight legs, Aileen played strange little cords and kept going until she found one she liked. She would repeat this until she fell asleep.

Aileen was a gentle giant, she never bite anyone. I would take her back to her nest in the garden at night.

Every morning, Aileen would be waiting on the screen door to come in and be with her harp.

She graced our lives for fifteen years before she left us.