What you do and/or keep in the privacy of your own home is your business. My mother strongly dislikes them too, she says she only appreciates their beauty but nothing else. She detests the fact that they constrict their prey and she compares them to Satan in the garden with Eve (old-minded Southern thinking lol). I try to explain to her that it was not the poor snake's fault that the devil happened to choose that form. Now at my house, my boyfriend's mother refuses to come over sometimes. We tell her that she may indeed see snakes and we aren't going to go rearranging the place just because she "prefers" not to be around them. Some people are just set in their ways; you can't change them, all you can try to do is educate