i understand his house his rules...if not i would of allready had a snake way before march...i tried the holding thing..and he says the way they mover creep him out..and i tried showing him all the different colors of snakes and pointed out its cheaper to have snakes than dogs and rabbits..but that again was a fail...to be honest i never liked pitbulls..i was always scared of them...but he had one when we got together and i began to love him i even sat with him while he took his last breath...(he got in a fight and the vet didnt take x rays to find the eternal dagmage till it was too late to save him) and than we got the shihtzu in october of last year...i delt with him cause i had to brush his hair every day clean his feet when ever he came inside from using the bathroom and had to give him a bath 2 times a week and it took 5 months to get him house trained...than what do u know while i am at school one night..he goes and gets a 3 month old pittbull to replace the one he had..but now he is an inside dog too..but for some reason he thinks there easier and better than snakes...that you feed once a week...change there water and keep there cage clean...maybe he has fear of them...i dunno..sorry for the rant..just annoyed..but if he plans on getting married things are going to have to be a mutual decision and not just what he says go