I remember the story I made up which was soo effective in making my nephew's nanny leave our household the next day.

I caught her knocking on the afrock's cage (a VERY BIG NO NO for me). I was like, "He doesn't like it when you do that". She asked me, "What happens if he 'doesn't like it'?" (and knocked on the cage again!...I can already hear the afrock beginning to hiss).

At that point, I was pissed but still keeping my poise. "Oh. He just gets so mad he flexes his muscles to break the cage and chase you out of the house. That is his 5th cage already".

Next day, I heard the nanny sobbing to my mom, saying she wants out coz she kept on dreaming about my rock python "breaking out of his cage and killing us all in our sleep".

Looks like my bluff worked TOO well coz we got another nanny who does NOT knock on the snake cages.

Hehehehehe