What do people say to you when you say you have snakes?

I hear so many stupid things. I love my responses more.

"Aint you afraid its going to come out and eat you in your sleep?"

When we bought our first ball I got from eeryone "Are you afraid that they are going to kill your son/dogs/you? I always respond they are not big enough. Most of my husbands family think I am Satan and a horrible mother, exacerbated by the fact I am pregnant and now the snakes will really KILL KILL KILL! the baby lol. My parents have grown use to the idea and een have held them. The majority of our friends think it is weird and irresponsible.People are nuts I have learned to let it roll off my back, and not tell them when we invest in a new one. I think the only person that thinks it is awesome is my Audi guy :P




Also Has anyone else noticed at the mere word "python" chaos erupts? It is insane.

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When we bought our first ball I got from eeryone "Are you afraid that they are going to kill your son/dogs/you? I always respond they are not big enough. Most of my husbands family think I am Satan and a horrible mother, exacerbated by the fact I am pregnant and now the snakes will really KILL KILL KILL! the baby lol. My parents have grown use to the idea and een have held them. The majority of our friends think it is weird and irresponsible.People are nuts I have learned to let it roll off my back, and not tell them when we invest in a new one. I think the only person that thinks it is awesome is my Audi guy :P




Also Has anyone else noticed at the mere word "python" chaos erupts? It is insane.

My responses have been..

"Ewww! Why do you have snakes? Aren't they like.. going to kill you?"
"I bet I'll come over one day and find that thing wrapped around your neck" (Got to love my mom..:rolleyes:)
"That's creepy!"
"Do they bite?"

I've had a few people that think it's awesome and love to see pictures. Although some of the ones that are all "ewwww!" like to see the pictures too. Particularly when I'm showing pics of the baby cornsnakes. Then they're all like "Aww, that's sort of cute.. in a gross way!"

I get the same question almost every time - surprised nobody else has said it. I actually had this conversation yesterday with a co-worker.

Usually first question is
"how big do they get?"
"4-6 feet TOPS... so pretty small"
"that's as big as me!"
"it's a snake, it's not apples to apples... they weigh 5 lbs tops and are as big around as a skinny wrist"
"oh, yeah, I guess that's not bad"

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Originally Posted by Kat_Dog

"Aren't you afraid he'll eat Ninja" Ninja is my cat.
I have to explain to them that:
1. None of my snakes will get even remotely big enough to eat a cat
2. Cat's don't smell like prey, they smell like predators, snakes don't try to eat predators.
"well what about kittens, they smell like babies"
Reply:
I've held puppies, then immediately my snake without washing my hands, he didn't react to the smell of babies at all"

Also "don't ball pythons get like 20 feet long"
Reply:
"You seem to have them confused with burmese pythons. Ball pythons only reach maybe 4-5 feet and are easily held with 1 hand"

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number 2 is that a fact? you learn something new everyday cool!

ha! my ex wife hated my snakes. hence the "EX".

lol now my breeding plans can come to FRUITION!!!!! :D

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Originally Posted by BrandiR

You wanna take a stab at which part of this just ended up in the out of context thread? :)

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Ah dang it. Lol

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Best one I got last night wasn't really about the snakes themselves but my rack... my friend says to me... "if you keep your snakes in drawers, where do you keep your socks?"
I almost died laughing considering he's just as sarcastic as me :)

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The conversation came up at work - I said I have ONE snake to guage their reactions (I actually have eight). Most of them seemed interested: my boss even said he owned a ball python in his youth, but it was killed horribly when he left a mouse in with it for days D:
One coworker was visibly disgusted but says she knows it's an irrational fear and believes me when I say they're harmless and tame. She was actually the one to ask the most questions! I showed her a picture of my cute baby pinstripe and she seemed to at least understand that they aren't dangerous.

My mom thinks the larger ones will kill my cats.