Musings of a newish bp owner...

These are just a couple of my observations since becoming a bp owner:

1) my female normal is the nicest snake ever. I doubt any snake could be sweeter than her. My pastel male is an as*hole.

2) everyone who keeps bps should get an honorary degree in psychology. From tricking them with mouse bedding scented rats to turning out all the lights so they think they're in private to get them to eat, the lengths we go to are amazing. I tell my kid I'm not a short order cook and she can starve if she doesn't like what I'm making.

3) people feel very strongly about snakes. According to my friends I should've died about 5 times over by now. I would probably get a smaller reaction from people if I told them I was an animal sacrificing satanist.

4) it totally freaks non snake people out when they look in your sink to see defrosting rats or worse when they go to get ice from your freezer and see frozen rats. If you don't explain you WILL get weird looks and your guests will be hesitant to stay for dinner.

I'm sure I'll come up with more as time goes on. Feel free to add your own!!

:rofl: I like the way you think

And for dinner tonight, we'll be having Manicotti a ratto y formaggio with a nice chianti.:P

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Originally Posted by poundhound2

4) it totally freaks non snake people out when they look in your sink to see defrosting rats or worse when they go to get ice from your freezer and see frozen rats. If you don't explain you WILL get weird looks and your guests will be hesitant to stay for dinner.

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I have a friend who likes to tell me that you could survive solely on pureed rats and still get all of your nutritional requirements met. Apparently this is the only "food" item you can do this with. As much as I love my snakes, I don't want to share their diet. :P

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Originally Posted by Kinra

I have a friend who likes to tell me that you could survive solely on pureed rats and still get all of your nutritional requirements met. Apparently this is the only "food" item you can do this with. As much as I love my snakes, I don't want to share their diet. :P

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I guess we learn something new everyday. I'm totally going to spread the word to all my non-snake friends. Lol. They will get a kick out of this.

OP..... :rofl: I love threads like this in the morning.

You're not kidding on #3...nearly everyone I know is convinced my snake will eat not only me but also my husband and all other pets.

I've been surprised by the amount of misinformation and flat-out wrong assumptions non-snake-people tend to have.

Also, is it just me, or are snake-loving women as a group hotter than the norm? :P

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Originally Posted by MissDizzyBee

You're not kidding on #3...nearly everyone I know is convinced my snake will eat not only me but also my husband and all other pets.

I've been surprised by the amount of misinformation and flat-out wrong assumptions non-snake-people tend to have.

Also, is it just me, or are snake-loving women as a group hotter than the norm? :P

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:D Definitely not just you!

So true, so true. My mother has refused to come to my house since we got the snakes. She won't even come over for an out door grill out with the snakes locked in the house, locked inmy room, locked in their tanks. :confused:

Yeah...that kind of stuff baffles me, especially since my cat is exponentially more vicious than my snake has ever been, and everyone just looooooves her.

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With me they quickly forget the snakes when they ask what do you feed them and I inform them of the 300 plus rats we keep on hand :rofl::rofl::rofl:. After they shiver the next question is always where do you keep them?:D

"In the guest room....you don't mind sharing, right?" :D

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"In the guest room....you don't mind sharing, right?" :D

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I offer but so far no takers. You pull a cute little wiener from the tub and they go oh how cute. But I always start with one of the jumbo males You know the ones the size of a small cat!!!...:D Just kidding.

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Originally Posted by Kinra

I have a friend who likes to tell me that you could survive solely on pureed rats and still get all of your nutritional requirements met. Apparently this is the only "food" item you can do this with. As much as I love my snakes, I don't want to share their diet. :P

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Um...how bout no? The rats are soley for snakey purposes...they will not be sautéed along with the ground beef for tacos tonight.

So true!! My female normal is really sweet too, even when she was a hatchling she was super laid back and friendly. I hope that when I get my first morph (I'm planning on it being an albino) that he'll be just as nice.

And yeah, it's amazing how strongly some people dislike snakes. It's just so deeply ingrained. Most people just kind of give me sidelong glances like I'm some sort of crazy person, but I've had several people who wouldn't talk to me or come over to my house after they found out I own them (even when I explained how small and tame they were). And then there's always the people that when I tell them I own snakes, they ask "oh, so do have any of those water moccasins?" or think I must mean gigantic, vicious anacondas or something :rolleyes: Most people have no idea that snakes can be just as nice as any other pet.

I have to admit that before I got my first snake, I was probably very similar. I wasn't afraid of them or anything, but I just didn't understand why anyone would want to own one. So I guess it's all from experiencing firsthand what amazing creatures they are that helps people get over their initial kneejerk negative reaction.

Oh, and I loved your comment about storing and thawing the frozen rodents. The rest of my family always freaks out when they walk into the bathroom and see several dead mice floating in a container of water :D

5. When people realize that your ball python collection cost more than their car. People trip out when they hear the cost of some of these snakes. They never believe me until I show them KS or some of the major breeders websites.

Regards,

B

I have a few friends that are refusing to come to my house even after I've explained that I am NOT taking the snakes out unless everyone that's over is fine with it.
It's actually kind of frustrating. I'm terrified of spiders and I've held a tarantula. O-o

Number 6:

The fastest way to end a conversation with people you don't like is to look at the clock/your watch and announce that this is your pet's favorite time of day and you need to get home to play with them. Then you wait for the inevitable question of " What do you have ?" Then smile hugely and say, " Snakes. "


Number 7:
The fastest way to clear a room is to announce," Nobody move, I had one of my snakes in it's travel pouch and I just noticed it's not in there any more. " :rofl:

Gale

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Originally Posted by angllady2

Number 7:
The fastest way to clear a room is to announce," Nobody move, I had one of my snakes in it's travel pouch and I just noticed it's not in there any more. " :rofl:

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Hahahaha exactly! When I was doing my internship a couple summers ago and giving presentations with the big RTB, a lot of people would ask how fast it could move if I put it down. One of the guys I worked with used to joke around and say "Well, it really can't move that fast, but I bet if we did put it down right now we would find out how fast a lot of people here could move!!" :D

Not that we ever did it of course, but it's true!

I actually had a guy tell me he wouldn't have let me give him a ride to the car shop where his car was being worked on if he realised that I kept snakes.... not that there were any snakes in the car!

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Hahahaha exactly! When I was doing my internship a couple summers ago and giving presentations with the big RTB, a lot of people would ask how fast it could move if I put it down. One of the guys I worked with used to joke around and say "Well, it really can't move that fast, but I bet if we did put it down right now we would find out how fast a lot of people here could move!!" :D

Not that we ever did it of course, but it's true!

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Lol, that's awesome. People do tend to panic a little too much around snakes. :P

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Originally Posted by MissDizzyBee

Yeah...that kind of stuff baffles me, especially since my cat is exponentially more vicious than my snake has ever been, and everyone just looooooves her.

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Seriously! My roommate kept cats and they've scratched and bit me (and it was unprovoked, those things are just... awful sometimes). I know some BPs do bite but I have NEVER EVER been bit by mine. Ah well. Maybe one day he will.