tips for getting g/f comfortable with snakes

[Annarose15]

She will either warm up to it or she wont. They key is to go at HER PACE ONLY. Do not force anything.

- Start with trying to calmly be in the same room for a period of time.

- Move into being closer to the snake to "appreciate" how docile, pretty, and not dangerous an animal it is.

- Sooner or later see if she will touch it's body.

- Eventually she might want to hold it, and once she does she'll be hooked and in no time at all she will want her own snake.

GOOD LUCK, remember HER PACE ONLY.

Stick with this kind of plan. It's only been a few months, she'll either come around or she won't.

she wont rub his back or anything, even if i hold his head away. she thinks ALL snakes are nasty. its sad really, but most thats the way it goes around here. most people are deathly afraid of snakes...she didnt even like my pet copperhead i caught a few years ago. no but really when they hear python it's a signal of a 15 foot snake eating a baby or something.

I can't say I blame her for being uncomfortable with a VENOMOUS snake (especially if you were handling it, which you might not have been). Perhaps ask her to try just letting him crawl across her hand while she's touching your hand? That way, she doesn't have to actively move toward him.

Everyone is saying don't rush it or don't force it, but that's exactly how I got into wanting snakes. My boyfriend had been wanting a BP for months, and he took me to his friend's house who has a BP. My boyfriend pulled the whole "if you love me, you'll hold it" thing. So I was forced to hold it. I instantly fell in love. I now have three BP's. & when I say I, I mean ME, not him.

Your boyfriend is a jerk if he and/or you actually believed that line. I would have calmly explained where he could put his friend's snake and left.