Re: Talking to people who don't like snakes
I hate when ppl assume that snakes are these SLIMY disgusting evil things that love to hurt everyone when BP's are so docile and nice...
Re: Talking to people who don't like snakes
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Originally Posted by Slithers
they call it a snake for a reason! ROFLMAO
you could scent my hands with rats and let my balls tear me to pieces and they arent going to kill me.
my 8 foot boa is just a pleasant reminder of what a large snake is like. no giant pythons for me! :)
There are people that wont enter my house because of the snakes in the locked herp room.
My mom actually thought all pythons were like burms and wanted me to get rid of the ball pythons when she read a horror story in the news about a burm. now that she knows the difference...she is always begging me to bring them out to 'play'.
here send her this picture of 'your' kid taking a bath. :)
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ers/th_135.jpg
Great Pic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had to save that one for the snake scardy cats!!!!!!!!
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I'm always amazed at how people can be so ignorant. Alot of people are even freaked out by pretty small spiders or any bug at all.
One of my teachers used to say that if theres a member in the same group of species thats poisonous or deadly, 9 out of 10 things you'll hear about it aren't true or very exagerated. Sharks are deadly killing machines and every scorpion's sting will nearly kill you. Or maybe not. :taz:
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I would have to say that "are they poisonous?" and "are they slimey?" are the first 2 questions everybody who doesn't know anything about snakes ask me when they see Elvis.
Well sometimes there's the "are they dangerous?"
Usually always followed by the "how big do they get?". They always seem so surprised when I say 5'
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Yah, that was really horrible when Steve Irwin's pet stingray stabbed him through the heart. Wheres the love?
LOL! I should have told her that!
Lol. Maybe I should. I already sent her an e-mail of a BP, then a burmese and then a green anaconda so she'd get the idea that 5' are not that big.
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The worst I've ever been asked was. Isn't that a copperhead? I was holding a coastal carpet python in a petstore.
Like I would freehandle a hot, let alone that a petstore would let somebody hold a venomous snake! For that matter, venomous snakes are illegal without a permit here in IL.
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It is amazing how little people know about snakes. Somehow I always knew snakes were not slimey and not all snakes were venomous. Guess I just did a lot of reading a child.
So here in Virginia, would I be allowed to take my snake(s) out into public. I have a snow corn right now. Do they drape around shoulders very easily. I know some snakes will just hang there on your shoulders but others will be a little more adventurous. Anyone have any experience with taking corns out into public?
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There are basically two types of non-herper in my eyes. One type of person, will sit and listen, be open-minded, and reasonable. The second type, are people you will never get through to; they already have formed their ideas on reptiles, and you will never change that.
It is amazing that the general public is so ill-informed on reptiles, but.. it is not like they teach the differences between snakes in schools.. it is something people learn on their own. Heck, when I saw my first BP, I didn't know if they ate crickets, mealworms, or mice.. it is not really ignorance if a person hasn't ever had the access to information. Now, if you try explaining things to them, and they choose to be bullheaded and not listen.. that's different.
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Good news! My sister-in law (the one from the IM) came with my brother and their kids the other day and I got her to pet Karma. She admitted that he felt nice and silky and she said that he is cute and "kinda pretty". It is a good step, although she told my brother that he was ballzy for holding Karma.
Looks like she got here just in time too, Karma is in his humid hide today so it is probably shedding time.
