What are some stupid things people have said you about snakes?

[SK_Exotics]

How many times have you got salmonella? Will you get warts from touching them?

[anthonym]

Probably reptile enthusiasts saying really pretentious things about other people's lack of knowledge about reptiles.

[SK_Exotics]

Haha that too, it's pretty redundant.

[cinderbird]

"but aren't they slimy!?" ...

[SpartaDog]

I told my grandmother I was getting another snake (note, I hadn't even mentioned what kind), and immediately she goes, "Why on EARTH would you do that?" as though I said I was gonna shoot her dog or something. Then she says "What are you going to do when it eats your dog?" Note, this snake was a hatchling rat snake about the size of a pencil, and my dog is a 50 lb pit bull.

One time I brought my python into the mall and a guy started talking to me about how he slept with a Burmese python every day, and how he put up a foot of plywood around the bed so it couldn't get out. Then he told me how he and his friends blew pot smoke in the poor thing's face. I was so relieved when he told me that snake had died.

[Br. Francis]

The only thing that ever has really pissed me if is this guy once asking, "do snakes, EXCITE, you?" as if there was some sort of sexual arousal associated with having a ball python.

[bsash]

The only thing that ever has really pissed me if is this guy once asking, "do snakes, EXCITE, you?" as if there was some sort of sexual arousal associated with having a ball python.

Actually, if you believe it or not, there are a lot of people who believe that people who own snakes are sex predators or sexual deviants. Maybe that comes from some of the pornographic photos that have snakes posed with the women, I absolutely could not tell you, but unfortunately there are a lot of uneducated people out there.

P.S. Mods- If any of the language is against the rules, please feel free to edit my post.

[loonunit]

I cant stand people when they say "my snake loves kids".

My snake seems reasonably tolerant of kids? And isn't so shocked by the experience that it won't still eat a mouse afterward?

(It's still not as icky as "my snake loves me and wants to be kissed on the head.")

[loonunit]

Most of the weird things I've heard from my Mom, including the bit about slimy-ness and worrying that my bps will eat our (60 and 75 lb.) dogs. Also she had nightmares for the first year that my snakes would break out of their cages and strangle me or my husband in our sleep.

(What actually ended up happening: they broke out of their cages, one of them climbed up to the booze and started knocking wine glasses off the sideboard, one of them climbed the stairs (!), and the other was too lazy to bother leaving her hide. So, so typical.)

[mechnut450]

(What actually ended up happening: they broke out of their cages, one of them climbed up to the booze and started knocking wine glasses off the sideboard, one of them climbed the stairs (!), and the other was too lazy to bother leaving her hide. So, so typical.)

first one needed a drin kthe second was looking for a better cage the the 3rd onewas why waste the effort I be back in here before the week is up lol..

I had one crawl in bed with me once ( had to treat the cages and I forogt ot let air out afterward( used a strong chemical that used to kill all kinds of bugs I got from an exterminator) so I place the smale ones in pillow cases and let the boa run loose. Well at 2-3 am a cold snake crawling up between the covers and against my bare leg almost cause me to need a dry bed. I was suddenly awaken by this cold heavy thing between my knees and it was moving higher lol.