I haven't had anybody to my face say anything bad about my snakes... However I know my other half gets a barrage of abuse from people at work. I understand it is their opinion, but it's not exactly needed. Especially when it's comments from ignorant lips such as:
"It might not be as big as an anaconda but it'll wrap round your throat and choke you and Aimee will have to look after you forever if it doesn't kill you first"
and
"Snakes are a waste of money!"
and
"You can't take it out and walk it, or play with it"
Now...my partners work colleagues don't have a lot of dealings with me. I don't have respect for a lot of them, I can count on one hand the ones worth having a conversation with. But when someone turned around to me and told me Pretzel and Pringle "aren't cute" and a waste of money and why don't I get a dog.... I got rather annoyed. Nobody bad mouths my littluns.
I'm not under the illusion that my snake is in the same category as a DOG. They're different animals that's why. If I wanted a pet that would fetch me the paper, bark at the door, pee where it wanted, take ages to train, and cost me masses in vet bills - I'd get a dog.
Point is I don't want a dog, cute is a matter of opinion ("my baby's so cute!" - nah love, it's the ugliest thing ive seen all week, don't kiss it), I can fetch the paper myself and I both want and love Pythons.
They also rip him because he was scared of snakes a month ago. He's currently setting up Pringles new viv in his bedroom. Belittling my other half after he worked through his fear is also a bad idea. I will eat you.
I've been taken off peoples news feeds cause they got sick of looking at my snake(s). So I deleted them. Mainly because if they don't think my updates are worth looking at, neither are theirs, no point having someone on your friends list when neither of you look at each others status updates.
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