I met a goal of mine...woohooo!!!

So some of you may know that my 84 year old mother lives with us. (yes sometimes I need to drink heavily...lol) Anyways....she LOVES the lizards talks to them all the time, will hold them, refers to herself as grandma and has a genunie concern for them. In fact she is down right mean if someone is not acting accordingly around the lizards...:rolleyes:

She does NOT like the snakes at all. She will stand outside the door of their room and look but no touch. Now keep in mind she is the one that started this whole BP thing by buying my son his first snake. Well today I had to clean out cages as they all just made a huge mess last night. So I got a big comfy chair and she walked by and I asked her to help. At first she was NO WAY!! I showed her the chair I got her and she finally gave in. She sat there for 20 minutes holding each snake while I cleaned and talked to them the whole time. The funniest part.... she was telling them...and I quote "now now stop moving around....hey...grandma said to stop moving so much, I think your going to eat me". :rofl:

woohoooo....I think she finally likes them. She was telling them how pretty grandma thought they were and how soft grandma thought they were.

ahhhhhh....ok...I feel accomplished!!

:rofl: Too funny! But I'm so happy for ya that she finally got in and hooked ;) It's only a matter of time once you get people to hold 'em!

lol yay grandma accepts all the grandkids!!:gj::gj:

Nice I love these stories of people that are "Deathly Afraid" of snakes and with a little patients and education they come to see how great they are..

GOLD STAR for you today

That's a good feeling isn't it? I've had that happen with a few friends who are deathly afraid. Once you get the snake in their hands for more than about a min, and the snakes don't go crazy, most people are pretty calm. Nice job!

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Originally Posted by BPelizabeth

So some of you may know that my 84 year old mother lives with us. (yes sometimes I need to drink heavily...lol) Anyways....she LOVES the lizards talks to them all the time, will hold them, refers to herself as grandma and has a genunie concern for them. In fact she is down right mean if someone is not acting accordingly around the lizards...:rolleyes:

She does NOT like the snakes at all. She will stand outside the door of their room and look but no touch. Now keep in mind she is the one that started this whole BP thing by buying my son his first snake. Well today I had to clean out cages as they all just made a huge mess last night. So I got a big comfy chair and she walked by and I asked her to help. At first she was NO WAY!! I showed her the chair I got her and she finally gave in. She sat there for 20 minutes holding each snake while I cleaned and talked to them the whole time. The funniest part.... she was telling them...and I quote "now now stop moving around....hey...grandma said to stop moving so much, I think your going to eat me". :rofl:

woohoooo....I think she finally likes them. She was telling them how pretty grandma thought they were and how soft grandma thought they were.

ahhhhhh....ok...I feel accomplished!!

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Fantastic story about grandma. I can just see Freakies grandma of 86 years doing that. LOL but one thing; you might get better results if it's Grandma who does the heavy drinking...:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: Just kidding folks!!!:D

Great to hear! Congrats! I love hearing stories of people overcoming their phobias!

I've been working on getting my mom to hold a snake for a while now and she won't have it! I have gotten her in the snake room and gotten her to touch a BP, but she hasn't held one yet. I told my wife this is a big goal of mine. Either way she has made alot of progress by simply touching one. I'll get her eventually! My parents said they are coming out to visit in March...maybe she'll hold her first snake then? :rolleyes:

Oh , I love it :)

I got my entire family converted. While some are not comfortable holding a snake, they will ask about them and admire them.

My sister was on a cruise and she got to see Boas in the wild (central america) and she told everyone her sister has snakes, LOL. They told her all about the diff. snakes there and she couldn't wait to tell me what she learned and saw.

Go grandma :)

Awe what a great story, thanks for sharing! I hope one day my mom will be like that :D.

Sweet!