I wound up with the snake as I was working through a phobia. I joined our Herp Society to work through my fears, and this snake was brought to us to use for a hands on event by my best friend's ex wife, who has been fostering his snakes since they divorced cause he can't have them.

She was malnourishing this snake and something about this snakes malnourishment broke my heart and my fear of a snake being in my home so I agreed to take her fostering over...

I can't really explain what's so scary about it to me, but than my phobia was never logical, so it's really hard to figure out why.

Friend thinks that perhaps I'm just so much of a nurturer that the hunter instinct is hard for me, even though I see and understand the necessity.

Does that help at all?

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My daughter turns 4 on Friday. She's very excited, I've helped her find pictures to see what a snake eating looks like and it doesn't bother her. She is a little helper though of course, so until I can handle it myself, I'm kind of protective of HER being there Besides, if for some reason Skade misses and hits me, I don't want her to freak out cause in her mind that's a "bad snake". This all started cause some moron said something in front of her that made her think snakes eat naughty children. So I don't want to take a chance and instigate that fear again, so until we know Skade isn't feeding so "eagerly", Mom's a bit overprotective if that makes sense.