Silly People

I am really surprised at some of the amusing and truly idiotic things people ask me about my snakes! Some of the best:

1) What about the BABY??!

2) Do they try to eat your (forty pound) dog??

3) Do they run loose?

4) Are you a freak? Why would you need/want/have 14 snakes?!

Then there are the people who are terrified of them. I have a few friends who won't even come inside of my house because of my snakes, even if the snakes are in another room and, of course, in cages. On one hand, this is fine by me- it keeps some of the more annoying people I know at a distance :D I guess I won't tell them that in my house, all snakes are in locked tanks in another room... in my front drive where they parked, there are countless scary black racers running loose! :O

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Originally Posted by TheOtherLeadingBrand

I am really surprised at some of the amusing and truly idiotic things people ask me about my snakes! Some of the best:

1) What about the BABY??!

2) Do they try to eat your (forty pound) dog??

3) Do they run loose?

4) Are you a freak? Why would you need/want/have 14 snakes?!

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Wow I get the same type of questions all the time.....except mine is a 85 pound dog and I only have 4(till this weekend).

Amazing the way some people think.....

I mean, hello, they live in tanks. I don't put my baby in the tank, but even if I did, he's not as small or as hairy as a mouse LOL

I get asked too if my dog tries to eat them (um, no, he could not care less that they even exist)

Hehe.....my best encounter with such silliness went like this:

Lady who wanted to interview me for a possible job: So, what do you see yourself doing five years from now?

Me: Seriously? I'd like to be breeding snakes by then.

Lady (with astonished look on her face): Snakes?!? How in the world does one go about "breeding" snakes?

Me: Well...you take the boy snake and put him together with the girl snake....

Laughter all around the table...some of it more nervous than mine! :rofl:

My mother won't step foot into my home because I have a snake. She said that it is disgusting! I am quite happy to have my snake regardless of what people think. I would not trade him for anything!

Lol, yeah, those kinda questions get old after awhile...But the one I get the most is "Are they poisonous?" Which is wrong on so many levels. No snake is poisonous, but can be venomous, and of course they ask this while I'm holding a snake, and people who do keep venomous snakes don't handle them that way to begin with. But you can't expect people who fear or don't know much about snakes to understand why others would keep them.
But I also get a lot of people that are fascinated and love that I have so many snakes(but 5 isn't enough really IMO). Some people never knew they liked snakes untill they got to meet and interract with one, which I'm always happy to do for some people.

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Originally Posted by Oroborous

Some people never knew they liked snakes untill they got to meet and interract with one, which I'm always happy to do for some people.

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:yes: My daughter and I both love being ambassadors for the snake world! :yes:

Yeah I love when I can introduce someone to snakes!

HAHA Judy that is so funny.

Once at my DH's work, we were yacking with a guy he works with. The snakes came up and I mentioned (or DH did, I can't recall) that we were going to breed them. This guy says something like, "How do they breed??" and I looked at blankly and said, "Boys have a penis; girls have a vagina" haha and he was like, "They do it?" and I was like, "Well, yeah!" hahaha It was so funny :)

My mom calls up to check in on us and ever since we built our collection from 1 to 5 and are now waiting for another 3 to hatch and another at the SD show, she doesn't stop about the snakes and how they're gonna kill us all. But she's kinda nuts anyway so...I unno.

My dog would potentially attempt to eat my snakes....he has a strong hunting instinct so I make sure to keep him back when I am handling them.