Thank goodness for this forum eh!
I'm so blessed that Mike and I and all our kids share this love (well Mikey still just wants a puppy but he is getting a bit more interested in the snakes some days). A couple of friends here aren't into snakes but have gotten to the point of always wanting to visit the snake room when they pop over so that's wonderful (hell I'd show off the snakes to the mail delivery lady if she'd only slow her dang car down LOL).
I think most people just put "beauty" into a box, like "pets", whatever and if something doesn't fit in their little mental boxes then it's tossed into the "that's wierd" box....silly humans!
~~Jo~~