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

Or I've gotten... I knew this guy who had this friend who's brother heard this story about someone's cousin that got eaten by a snake. Aren't you worried?!


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I've read every single one of your replies and it amazes me how much some of you put up with. I'm lucky to have a family that somewhat accepts it.

Family was setting at the table and my cousin's wife comes to me and says ''How much do they eat?'' lol I said once every 5-days lol and she looked at me said ''5-Days!?'' ''it's going to starve''

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Wow, I forgot about this thread. My husband is a home-based gunsmith and this incident happened last week. For the record, all of our customers make me smile - some when they arrive, others when they leave. And then there are the ones who get fired before we do any work for them...

So, the hubby is home waiting on a new customer whose rifle suddenly "doesn't work". The guy showed up right after lunch with an AR15. They go into the office and hubby starts taking the gun apart. Usually when someone has an AR15 that works, gets taken apart for cleaning, put back together, and then doesn't work, it's not hard to diagnose and correct the issue.

About the time hubby has removed the upper from the lower he hears the customer say "Snakes are the devil's spawn!"

Now, we have exactly one snake in the office, a beautiful male albino BCI about 18 months old. He's a very nice snake, laid back, never ever has threatened to bite. He's not one to hide all day, so he's in a Boaphile arboreal enclosure and even our customers who aren't herpers like the little guy.

Dear hubby (DH), knowing that he has bad hearing and thinking that he misunderstood what the guy said, goes "Excuse me?"

"Snakes are from the devil and people who keep them are Satan worshipers!"

DH, thinking that the guy is simply a snake-fearing pansy, tells the guy that we have 36 snakes and quite a few belong to our eight year old daughter.

"I don't care if your whore daughter owns snakes! No Christian can own snakes. Snakes are from the devil."

By now DH has had more than enough. Before the last comment DH was simply going to charge the guy a "stupidity fee" for being a jerk, but the remark about our daughter was over the top. So, the dude from Sister Coitus is promptly fired as a customer, physically ejected from the house, and the pieces of his rifle thrown out onto the lawn.

GOOD RIDDANCE!

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Your husband is a gunsmith. It's not much of a stretch to assume he also owns guns of his own. Only an idiot would make a comment like that to an armed man, in his home, when he has YOUR gun taken apart in front of him. I hope he scattered parts well enough to have some that didn't make it home!

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I always either get "EWWWW!!" OR "That's so awesome!!" lol…could go either way usually.

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I would think the names of your animals would go a long way toward making people lighten up.


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I've also gotten comments to the effect of the person being convinced they are running loose, how do I have time to do anything with so many, your house must smell, and so on. And then when I try to explain, I get then glazed look of someone not really caring.

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I've also gotten comments to the effect of the person being convinced they are running loose, how do I have time to do anything with so many, your house must smell, and so on. And then when I try to explain, I get then glazed look of someone not really caring.

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People ask me if mine runs around loose. I just look at them like they're stupid and tell them "Of course not, idiot. Snakes don't have legs."

I had an interesting conversation with a coworker last night, too...

Her: Aren't you afraid it's going to eat your cat?
Me: No. Don't be ridiculous. That's not even possible.
Her: But how do you know that?
Me: Because I keep the cat in a different tank. Duh!

Pretty sure she's calling animal control.

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Hahaha. I'm gonna use that line when someone says something about my dogs xD

When I talk to dumb, ignorant people who can't even visualize what a real snake looks like, the usually ask me "What does it look like? What does it act like? How big is it?"

And my one line, every time, is "Have you seen harry potter? Like that"

and then they stop talking to me

People come by the house and say holy crap you got rats what you raise those for lol I'm called the rat farmer



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Oh... that's, erm, nice.
Oh god, why?
Wordless look of terror and disgust

My responses are usually the same regardless of how someone reacts.
"Some people collect beanie babies. I collect scaley babies."
"Snakes aren't evil because it is written in the Bible..."
"Snakes are misunderstood. Come to my place and I'll let you hold one. You'll see they aren't slimy, vicious, or dripping with venom."

To date no one has taken me up on the last response's offer ;)