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  • 06-18-2010, 10:58 PM
    Animals As Leaders
    Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    Ok.

    I want to know how all your friends/family or whoever thinks about you breeding. Whenever I tell someone they look at me like :O and then I'm all like :weirdface and then there like :confused: and I just :rolleyes: lol

    People also like to give me the whole, there isn't a market for reptile breeding and that its pointless to get into. I personally am not breeding to start some huge business but to further my hobby and obviously have some return on my investment, but I can't keep em' all unfortunately so selling is inevitable. People just don't believe there are that many people out there buying reptiles I guess. I'm just tired of people thinking I'm a nut...even though I am lol. But I think people think its a far fetched idea and that its stupid, and that bothers me. Anyone else run into this?
  • 06-18-2010, 11:05 PM
    mechnut450
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    lol you should see the reactions i get from people. specially when iI amit to not liking spiders but am on handling any snake.

    they like you will handle a vemouns snake but not a spider I am like :D that right they :confused: then they just say I am:rolleye2: anyhow for having snakes lol.
  • 06-18-2010, 11:18 PM
    Auletto
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    Besides talking to co-worker & family, I don't tell anyone. People tend to look at you funny when you start talking about anything having to do with snakes.
  • 06-18-2010, 11:25 PM
    Animals As Leaders
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Auletto View Post
    Besides talking to co-worker & family, I don't tell anyone. People tend to look at you funny when you start talking about anything having to do with snakes.

    Thats what I mean haha

    Everyone has such harsh things to say about snakes it bothers the crap out of me. I just wish I had some friends that were into this stuff as well...Me and my girly are the only ones right now lol. Whatever more snakes for me to play with then :P
  • 06-18-2010, 11:27 PM
    Animals As Leaders
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by mechnut450 View Post
    lol you should see the reactions i get from people. specially when iI amit to not liking spiders but am on handling any snake.

    they like you will handle a vemouns snake but not a spider I am like :D that right they :confused: then they just say I am:rolleye2: anyhow for having snakes lol.

    Funny you mention the spider thing, I get that a lot too

    I don't even see how you could compare the two...ughhh nastyyy little buggers spiders are, yuck can't stand em'!
  • 06-18-2010, 11:29 PM
    Bruce Whitehead
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    I come from a long line of humans that insist on breeding animals so my family and friends never react to the "breeding" part it is the snake part, but when we talk genetics and talk about what it entails, end product, projects, etc. they suspend that and can get really into it.

    And there are lots of kids under 12 in my circle, so it gives uncle bruce a fair bit of cachet... and you cannot beat that. :)

    My family is more interested inthe market aspect of it in comparison to the hobby aspect, how we (snake people) connect and what that looks like. We have good talks about it, so it is all good.

    Bruce
  • 06-18-2010, 11:34 PM
    davidnizmo
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    oh yea my girlfriends family wont even come in our house because i own snakes and people always look at me stupid when im talking about them
  • 06-18-2010, 11:58 PM
    Animals As Leaders
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    Wow! Thats a serious phobia that woman must have lol
  • 06-19-2010, 12:03 AM
    MissDixie
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    I get mixed reactions when I say I raise/breed reptiles but it comes with the territory. Different strokes for different folks is how I've always responded. If they think I'm crazy, oh well! At least I don't have to worry about them stopping by for a visit at my house :D. LOL
  • 06-19-2010, 12:05 AM
    Animals As Leaders
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Bruce Whitehead View Post
    I come from a long line of humans that insist on breeding animals so my family and friends never react to the "breeding" part it is the snake part, but when we talk genetics and talk about what it entails, end product, projects, etc. they suspend that and can get really into it.

    And there are lots of kids under 12 in my circle, so it gives uncle bruce a fair bit of cachet... and you cannot beat that. :)

    My family is more interested inthe market aspect of it in comparison to the hobby aspect, how we (snake people) connect and what that looks like. We have good talks about it, so it is all good.

    Bruce

    I do notice the little ones enjoy them a lot! I live in a development and all my neighbors kids flock over to my house whenever they see me outside to ask me questions. After they knew I take care of them and "make babies" it was a rap. I'm sure all their parents loved that ;)

    Its really the older generations that frown harshly upon reptiles. My grandmother thinks its horrible what I do, and somewhat shuns me for it now. She thinks cramming them into tubs and not exposing them to their natural environment is cruel and just doesn't understand how a tub can fit their housing needs. This sucks just because my grandma is someone I am very close to and think very highly of, and she thinks my hobby is for weirdo's and cruel people I guess...I usually don't talk about it anymore when shes around.
  • 06-19-2010, 09:31 AM
    davidnizmo
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Animals As Leaders View Post
    I do notice the little ones enjoy them a lot! I live in a development and all my neighbors kids flock over to my house whenever they see me outside to ask me questions. After they knew I take care of them and "make babies" it was a rap. I'm sure all their parents loved that ;)

    Its really the older generations that frown harshly upon reptiles. My grandmother thinks its horrible what I do, and somewhat shuns me for it now. She thinks cramming them into tubs and not exposing them to their natural environment is cruel and just doesn't understand how a tub can fit their housing needs. This sucks just because my grandma is someone I am very close to and think very highly of, and she thinks my hobby is for weirdo's and cruel people I guess...I usually don't talk about it anymore when shes around.

    thats right
  • 06-19-2010, 11:00 PM
    BAMReptiles
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    my family pretty much expects it, my uncle was pretty ahrdcore into reptiles as a kid so my moms side grew up with it already. my grandmother on my dads side actually helped me buy a few, since she wants to see me do stuff that i love instead of some boring rat maze job.
  • 06-19-2010, 11:12 PM
    bsash
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    Surprisingly, my mom never cared about my snakes before, but now that I am breeding and getting into some of the higher end morphs, she can't wait to see what I produce. My dad on the other hand doesn't care either way, he thinks once you've seen one, that you have seen them all, and I could not disagree more. On the other hand, the rest of my family thinks it is a little weird, so I guess I've got a lot of mixed feelings from people.
  • 06-19-2010, 11:42 PM
    rhinorush
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    i live in indonesia where tradition,ethics and religion still become great influance around here. some people thing is a bad luck for keeping predatory animal because u have 2 sacrifice another animal to your pet (feeding rat 2 snakes).so everytime i talk about it to "normal" people about my snake they think i'am bit unfit and unwell, thats including my parents, they never agree,want 2 know or supporting my hobby, for them its a messy,smelly,disguisting and unhealty things 2 do.

    but lucky i also have tons of friend and bussiness relation in to the reptiles, so i'am not feel lonely + my wife is always supporting me

    things might change when u can prove 2 them that u can make an income out of it. then people will start to say 'wow' and 'yay' around u.

    well i think basicly is a same everywhere, there is always a pro and con about sfuff that we do...its just depent we handle them, for me: i just keep on going with my reptiles hobby what so ever
  • 06-20-2010, 12:11 AM
    Beardedragon
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    One time I told a person I breed snakes, and he took it as I breed with the snakes... wth?

    The look on his face though was pretty funny.
  • 06-20-2010, 12:23 AM
    Moofins07
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    I have not yet done any breeding, probably not for a long while yet. My girl's still only just over a year old.

    However, like many have said, mention the word "snake" in any conversation, and it gets you raised eyebrows. :weirdface I use it to either give people a laugh, depending on the person, or to help people "be on their way", again, depending on the person. :P
  • 06-20-2010, 11:35 AM
    Snakefreak64
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    this thread is GREAT, I cant tell you the struggle I have defending my hobby.people are either scared, weirded out or all of the above,Im at the point where I dont even bring up what im doing because im the "freak" oh well what can you do,lol............and oh ya dont even get me started about breeding my own rats and mice, sheesh, people are annoying:rolleye2:
  • 06-20-2010, 11:44 AM
    stratus_020202
    Re: Do people think your crazy for breeding?
    Yep. All the time. I take my babies to the pet store though, and there are some people that are really interested in talking about them. I love educating too :) The funniest thing is when people look at my 3.5 ft adult pastel and call him a baby, then ask how big he's going to get. I'm like, oh no, he's done growing. Lol. I get the bug eyes.

    I am working on my mom though. She just recently hatched some chicken eggs, and I've been comparing the reptile eggs to the chicken eggs. Talking about candling and such. We have finally held a conversation about snakes. I'll get her eventually :halohorn:
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