I'm not very experienced, I bought my first Ball on 23 Dec 11, but I did find out awfully fast other people, as a general rule, don't like snakes. The first question my mother asked when I told her I was thinking about getting one, "are they the biting or strangling kind"? I've had people ask if he could kill me, if they're poisonous, if they bite etc? I bought him down south (there are no Balls for sale where I live) and when I travelled back up I stayed with family, the majority of the people weren’t pleased that I had him in their homes and over half didn’t even want to look at him. As already stated, snakes are generally misunderstood, and people don’t like them.