Scaring aunt with my ball python!!

Cant say i really found this funny, mildly chuckled at most obly because i laugh at random stuff all the time, but because of the situation we are in, this only hurts our efforts to let us keep these animals. I can guess this wasnt done to be cruel but a number of things could jave gone wrong and also makes it look like snake owners are irresponsible. Maybe not all of them but it does hurt our image even more. ots better to educate people and help our cause rather than have fun with peoples fears and put us in a tougher position.

The video, posting it on YT, and scaring people who fear things with their fears screams PURE stupidity to me. Simple as that. I have things I could comment, but do I feel it matters? Nope.

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Originally Posted by MiniJ83

Gee, I wonder why snakes and their owners get such a bad rap?

Oh yeah, that's right. Because a select few fail to respect the phobias of others, and give the rest of us bad names.

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This times infinity.

Yeah, some people are deathly afraid of snakes. One girl actually vomited when she was told I keep them.

A while back I was chased out of a pet store by a crazy customer, though I was clearly buying a mouse in a tank that said in big letters "FEEDER MICE". She seemed to know that I was going to feed it to a snake. I heard her say she planned on buying all the feeder mice so I couldn't kill anymore of them...

When possible, I try to educate people about snakes, knowing phobias can be very strong in some individuals, I don't push the limits. Usually when a person sees you holding the snake calmly, and how well behaved the snake is, they will settle down, some even want to hold it, especially children.

I think TV has a lot to do with brainwashing people about snakes. You never see a calm happy snake on TV, they're always striking or killing something. Its no surprise that one of my friends, an avid snake hater, always asks me if my snakes tried killing me yet, or if they've bitten me yet.

As for the YT video, if that snake was a spider, I'd probably of took off like that too! Spiders freak me out big time!

it was type funny, i smiled lol but i hope shes not scarred for life cause of tht lol