Snake haters drive me crazy!!

[kat_black181]

Everyone I know was initially against me getting a snake. But they already knew I was a huge animal person. I am super lucky too because the boa I have is a total sweetheart (usually, lol) and a great way to show people that snakes aren't bad. Now I have a few friends who wouldn't want to hold her, but none of my friends think I am in any danger (or at least they don't say it to my face!). Even my grandparents love my boa, and ask how she is, and hold her from time to time.

My mom was totally against me getting into snakes, but now she loves her, and baby talks her when she see her. My parents even took care of her for eight months when I had a great out of state opportunity come up (and wasn't allowed to bring reptiles with me), and even threw her a birthday party. Now my mom's biggest fear is that she won't ever have grandkids, just grandsnakes.

When I travel I take my dog and ferrets with me, so when I went to visit my aunt she thought I would be taking the snake with me too. She told me that she would stuff towels under the door at night, and that I couldn't bring it in her sight. Well obviously you can't just travel with a snake for the heck of it, so she was never going to go on vacation with me in the first place, but later when my aunt came to visit us she worked up the nerve to look at her in her cage. And then she had me pull her out. And then she held her! And then next month she bought her daughter a corn snake. My aunt likes him because she has bad allergies to things with fur, so she thinks he is the perfect pet. She absolutely babies him. This from a woman who said she would be stuffing towels under her bedroom door at night! She doesn't like to feed him though, and makes her daughter do that.

I used to answer the door at halloween with my boa, and all the neighbors loved her, and loved to ask questions about her. Now I'm getting super paranoid about people other than good friends knowing I keep reptiles, so she doesn't go out in the front yard anymore, her cage isn't where visitors can just see it, and I won't be answering the door this halloween with her. Even though most of my neighbors loved her, I'm worried a new one might raise a fuss, and with the way things are going I don't want people to know I have her, even though it is legal to keep boas where I live.

I kinda see where you're coming from with not letting people know about your snake.

I don't let my neighbors know about mine either for the very same reasons. My landlord is ok with having them around since they won't cause damage, but I'm not sure how the neighbors would feel. Some people have irrational fears and would maybe cause an issue.