"Aren't you afraid he'll eat Ninja" Ninja is my cat.
I have to explain to them that:
1. None of my snakes will get even remotely big enough to eat a cat
2. Cat's don't smell like prey, they smell like predators, snakes don't try to eat predators.
"well what about kittens, they smell like babies"
Reply:
I've held puppies, then immediately my snake without washing my hands, he didn't react to the smell of babies at all"

Also "don't ball pythons get like 20 feet long"
Reply:
"You seem to have them confused with burmese pythons. Ball pythons only reach maybe 4-5 feet and are easily held with 1 hand"