What do people say to you when you say you have snakes?

[bandicoot4]

i live with four other guys who hate my snakes. they think im crazy and wonder how could you have them as pets (little do they know my breeding plans ) but i try and sway their opinions about them. its not really working tho, oh welll.

[SlitherinSisters]

Wait until you tell them you have 400 tarantulas. :p

I try not to tell to many people how many animals I have.

OMG YOU HAVE 400 SPIDERS!!!!



Seriously though, that's a lot of tarantulas! Do any of them live together? Sorry, I know nothing about them.

[Shera]

Anyone who has known me most of my life is not at all surprised (I was a major herp lover (and tomboy) as a kid and caught all sorts of things. Most of my friends are women and they think they are gross/scary, but as long as I don't bring them too close to them they don't care. I get that not everyone likes snakes, and respect that, as long as they accept me and my "craziness" Most people ask how big they get and stuff, that's really all. People who are interested like them, and those who don't like them aren't really interested. I haven't gotten any crazy reactions, but I don't tell acquaintances.

[3skulls]

I have a couple species that can be communal but I don't have any of them set up that way.

I would have more if I had more time to spend with them.

[SlitherinSisters]

I have a couple species that can be communal but I don't have any of them set up that way.

I would have more if I had more time to spend with them.

Now I want to see your room of horrors....

[3skulls]

Just a few.



You should come check out all the spiders and bugs here
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...as-and-Spiders

[Kodieh]

People tried to have a problem with it when I told everyone what the very first baby shower gift we received was.

A close friend of ours gave our unborn son his first snake, a male pinstripe. Family, who normally knows better, exclaimed that we'd have a snake in the "same house" with our son. That's when I explained that the pin made number 8 in the collection and it got quiet.

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[AlexisFitzy]

Ok does anybody get this question because every time I tell someone I have snakes I get asked this the most: What do they eat?!?! I'm like RATS!!! Haha. I promise the next time I'm going to ask them what they think they eat because I think the responses I would get would be hilarious!! It just baffles me that people don't know what snakes eat, I thought everyone knew they ate rodents. It keeps the rodents from over populating the earth. That's like walking up to a spider and saying "Mr/Mrs.Spider what do you eat?" And that spider will say "I eat freaking bugs, Duh!" Lol. I never get are they poisonous or will they eat your cat or dog, just what do they eat. I went the the expo in Nashville in September and I was looking at some big freezers full of rodents and a lady walked up to me and asked me why they had freezers full of frozen rats. I had to explain to her that you have to thaw and warm the rats to feed to the snakes and she looked super grossed out. I was just like whaaaa. Lol. Sorry for such a long post.


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[SlitherinSisters]

Just a few.



You should come check out all the spiders and bugs here
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...as-and-Spiders

Holy crap.

I love all the jars/containers everywhere! I have to admit I'm a tiny bit freaked out by the thread, lol. The big hairy ones are pretty though. I kinda want to hold a big furry one, but I'm afraid I might have a panic attack or cry, lol. I can't believe you had a spider live for 20 years! I did not know they could live anywhere close to that long! In all fairness I do have a pet wild spider in my living room by the front door. My mom saw the web last time she was here and said "oh...I see you're ready for Halloween..." I laughed and said, "Yep, he has gotten carried away with his web lately." Mom, "there's a spider on that web! Why?! He could bite you!!!" Me, "Mom. He has been there for months, I see him every day and he never leaves his web." Mom, "WHAAAAAAT?!!!!!!!" My poor mom, I think she wonders where she went wrong sometimes.

[3skulls]

I get:
What do they eat?
Why do you keep them?
Why would you want those in your house?
Have you been bit?

I do find it strange when people know so little about snakes. It always seems like people think they are slimy too.