Ok so, my mom loves my new BP. She has always loved my pets and my sister's pets, whether they were hamsters or mice or fish or rats or a tortoise or whatever. So she came over to my place one day and took some pictures with Onyx and posted them on facebook. Here's one of them:
And then here were the comments that followed (my mom is 'green'):
I think I spend so much time around reptile-friendly people that I forget that there are people who think snakes are scary gross things. Anyway, it made me a little sad cause Onyx is such a sweetheart and these people are dismissing him without even having met him. Yeah, I know it's pretty common for people to feel this way, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.