tips for getting g/f comfortable with snakes

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Originally Posted by swansonbb

You are killing me!

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i meant he is small, only like 22 inches but he is getting alot bigger now that he isnt in a pet shop!

Everyone is saying don't rush it or don't force it, but that's exactly how I got into wanting snakes. My boyfriend had been wanting a BP for months, and he took me to his friend's house who has a BP. My boyfriend pulled the whole "if you love me, you'll hold it" thing. :mad: So I was forced to hold it. I instantly fell in love. I now have three BP's. & when I say I, I mean ME, not him. :D

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Originally Posted by craigj1187

she wont rub his back or anything, even if i hold his head away. she thinks ALL snakes are nasty.

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TOO EASY....:banana::snake:
I feel like a school kid again loling at nearly every post in this thread!

I feel like a... nope i feel like me, lol'ing at every post here. My 14y/o maturity level is perfect for this thread!

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Originally Posted by TheSnakeGuy

She will either warm up to it or she wont. They key is to go at HER PACE ONLY. Do not force anything.

- Start with trying to calmly be in the same room for a period of time.

- Move into being closer to the snake to "appreciate" how docile, pretty, and not dangerous an animal it is.

- Sooner or later see if she will touch it's body.

- Eventually she might want to hold it, and once she does she'll be hooked and in no time at all she will want her own snake.

GOOD LUCK, remember HER PACE ONLY.

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Stick with this kind of plan. It's only been a few months, she'll either come around or she won't.

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Originally Posted by craigj1187

she wont rub his back or anything, even if i hold his head away. she thinks ALL snakes are nasty. its sad really, but most thats the way it goes around here. most people are deathly afraid of snakes...she didnt even like my pet copperhead i caught a few years ago. no but really when they hear python it's a signal of a 15 foot snake eating a baby or something.

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I can't say I blame her for being uncomfortable with a VENOMOUS snake (especially if you were handling it, which you might not have been). Perhaps ask her to try just letting him crawl across her hand while she's touching your hand? That way, she doesn't have to actively move toward him.

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Originally Posted by kimmm

Everyone is saying don't rush it or don't force it, but that's exactly how I got into wanting snakes. My boyfriend had been wanting a BP for months, and he took me to his friend's house who has a BP. My boyfriend pulled the whole "if you love me, you'll hold it" thing. :mad: So I was forced to hold it. I instantly fell in love. I now have three BP's. & when I say I, I mean ME, not him. :D

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Your boyfriend is a jerk if he and/or you actually believed that line. I would have calmly explained where he could put his friend's snake and left.

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Originally Posted by kimmm

My boyfriend pulled the whole "if you love me, you'll hold it" thing. :mad: So I was forced to hold it. I instantly fell in love.

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are people going out of their way to make jokes now?


17 years older than you.. wow

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Originally Posted by Annarose15

Your boyfriend is a jerk if he and/or you actually believed that line. I would have calmly explained where he could put his friend's snake and left.

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He didn't actually mean it... if I really didn't wanna hold it, I didn't have to. I just wanted to get over my fear of snakes. He doesn't actually use that line against me lol.

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Originally Posted by kimmm

He didn't actually mean it... if I really didn't wanna hold it, I didn't have to. I just wanted to get over my fear of snakes. He doesn't actually use that line against me lol.

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Well, in that case, glad you talked yourself into the addiction. ;)

My GF was the same way, she didn't wanna touch my BP and was scared. She's seen me grabbing him with ease and so I let her just touch him while I had him distracted and looking a different direction, she saw he wasn't threatened and so she tried holding him and she loves holding him now. Might just be a time thing, then again sometimes some people don't get over their fears best of luck though.

rolf I know this is supposed to be a serious thread but I'm cracking up over here. :D Anywho, my boyfriend isn't super fond of snakes either. He seems interested in Allure but will not hold or touch him. I figure he will eventually but he won't if I keep pushing him to.