I haven't had any problems. The worst I heard was from my uncle who told me one day someone was going to walk into my room to find all of my snakes strangling me and two of my aunts thought I was crazy. My mother doesn't like them(i think she's scared, but won't admit it), but everyone else is fine with it. Everyone that comes over and knows about my snakes wants to see and hold my snakes and they usually end up asking if they can have it. Lol.