I have 10 snakes, you have WHAT? (peoples reactions!)

i tell people i have snakes, lizards, tortoise, if they got a problem, i tell them to go.........o............f......................f i really dont care, if people judge you by your animals, then they really aren't your friends, i have a bad aunt that tells people i worship the devil cause i keep snakes and it dont help i listen to metal music, raise of hands, how my people like metal and raise snakes, i ment come on, half the time at expos most of the best breeder i buy from look like they are old enough to remember seeing elvis alive or Nixon as president. they love the beach boys and yanni. so yea, sorry to get off on a wild ride, thats why i don't partake in family activities, heck my gf gets it more than me, casue she is a girl and doesn't go eghhhh!! to snakes aswell

i can't wait till im through with collage and have a snake room, all to its self, mabye no one will come over

Along those same lines Bowser. I remember my grandmother(whom I also love every much) was worried that I was in the occult becuase I liked dungeons and dragons years ago, though she is absolutely fascinated by my reptiles.
I told a friend of mine, when I have my own home I will have a reptile room where all of my reptiles will be kept, so if someone comes over who is offended by reptiles will still feel welcome. To that he responed ":explitive: that! if they are offended by reptiles they don't deserve your company!"

When people hear that I have 11 snakes, I get mixed reactions. I get questions like.."Aren't you afraid the snakes will get out and eat your cats?" and "Are they poisonous?" :rolleyes:

But bringing up snakes in conversation with some people has actually won a few people over. My sister is now not as scared of snakes as she used to be and has willingly held a few of my snakes. One of my friends is getting a ball python this year (I'm helping her set up an enclosure and such). She is getting a male pastel. My older sister has gotten a spider ball python, which will be on a breeding loan to me next season. :)

And I will admit, I have taken my ball pythons in to pet stores before. (don't do it anymore though). I found it to be a great opportunity to educate people. They would come up to me and ask questions like "How long will it get?" "What do you feed it?" etc. I always made sure they used the hand sanitizer before touching my snake and I was able to give them information. Now I have seen people do this the wrong way. Once I was working and looked out the window and saw this teenager standing outside with his ball python wrapped around his neck. The temperature outside was definitely too cold for a ball python to be outside. :mad:

I can tell you that having a sweperate snake room is a blessing. My wife is terrified of the snakes but since they are in their own room off the house. She has full run of the house with out worrying about running into me messing with the snakes.

i dont really talk to people about my snakes or reptiles unless they are fellow herp lovers. Everyone normally asks if they can come by one day during feeding to see how they eat and how there housed. The worst reaction i get is from girls that dont like them and tell me they wont come in my room but they always do anyway haha.

I think I would be lost if there were no reptile forums, shows or things like that where i can actually talk to people I have things in common with. Honestly, I don't mind telling people I have snakes just to see their reactions. Today, at work a woman came in today and was looking at the jumbo rats we have, and asked me this.

"Who is their right mind would own a snake big enough to eat that?"

I kind of just smiled, and looked around innocently. She caught on and was like "Wow, isn't that like illegal or something?"

If people have a problem with my snake then all right, I understand. I dont tell them to screw off or anything, its just like well I enjoy it. If we show agression to non herp lovers it only hurts our image. We are better than them... we dont need to go to their level, we are above them. Just my 2 cents....

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Originally Posted by dc1

If people have a problem with my snake then all right, I understand. I dont tell them to screw off or anything, its just like well I enjoy it. If we show agression to non herp lovers it only hurts our image. We are better than them... we dont need to go to their level, we are above them. Just my 2 cents....

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I completely agree.

Though, it does get hard when you are the only one in your family who likes reptiles. I get a lot of crap for it, sucks sometimes.

I get a lot of mixed reactions too. Such as with my big female, ball pythons only get as thick as a soda can and my friend was like "that snake could swallow an infant!" I just reply "no dude, do you see how thick a soda can is? Do you see how thick a baby is? It will not happen!"