Weirdest name someone called your snake??

Walking around with Scarlett on my shoulders I've herd "Nice tie" on more than one occasion.

Well, since I don't take my snakes out in public where they might cause an un-necessary scare to people who are phobic (like non-pet stores), I don't hear mine called much. :)

I also don't take my snakes for "walks" around people, only in my own yard or around people I know that are "ok" with it. I know that snake phobia can be a severe problem for some people and I don't feel I should put them through it by parading my snake around...

I used to see people carry their large snakes around downtown Savannah, or on the Beach, like they are hot stuff (the person, not the snake) For one, I doubt the snake enjoyed it and then, those were crowded areas and some people just shrank back and really got a scare.

I still remember this really big guy ( I mean bodybuilding champ kind of guy) walking around with this tiny Ball Python around his neck. I dunno, it just struck me as funny
for some reason...LOL

We are so proud of our snakes, and so in love with them, its sometimes hard to understand why other people wouldn't feel the same, or at least admire them :) Its so much fun to show them off.

Thats why I used to go to schools or wildlife parks for scheduled events, for educational presentations. This way I got to show off my babies, talk about them, have them ooohed and aaaahed over, and people (esp. children who do not have that learned fear yet) learned to appreciate the reptiles.

With ever more rules and regulations stemming from fear and paranoia its especially important to educate the young minds, and to keep our reptiles responsibly, so not to feed the paranoia.

To get back on topic, the worst my snakes have been called (by a friend, no less) were "funny looking turds with teeth" ...:tears:

DD's softball coach refers to ours as "the devil", lol - he's a totally docile ball so not sure why (I'm guessing he's afraid of snakes). We usually just call him Mr. Snake...lol.

My albino ball python was called a burm once, I think thats just due to the crazy amount of albino burms there are.

my 3 yr also calls them "nakes" ....lol....lol He loves the nakes other the that I geuss the most I have heard is " Is that yours ?? " I think to myself ummmmm well of course !....lol

I've heard some of these. My mom calls them "evil things".

The one that really blew me away was when I took my boa, Eve, up to PetCo for one of their free pet photo sessions. The dog adoption people were there and I was talking to an employee at the store and one of the volunteers came up and said "she is so beautiful, can I hold her?"

He had no experience with snakes. He didn't know what she was and was fascinated by her. Middle aged man no less. He held her for about 10 minutes while I explained a few things to some customers that were interested in geckos. I was just taken back by a stranger calling her 'beautiful'. I still find it weird, sadly.