Quote Originally Posted by MonkeyShuttle View Post
My wife hated snakes until she saw the beautiful combinations you can make. With her for some reason its the looks that scares her. The head of a Boa is more sharp and angular that she doest like and for some reason that shuts down all snakes for her but show her a baby banana ball or Dreamsicle and shes helping me set up an enclosure for it. She may be a little superficial lol
Not necessarily. People are wired to react more favorably to "pretty" animals/people/objects/etc. than not. Why do you think television "talking heads" are typically good looking, never mind the "news readers" of today... but I digress.

But on the snake front I'll use an example from my experience. I had to take one of my snakes to the vet - citrust pastel ivory - and while he was light tan when born, as he's aged he's turned almost pure white.

So, we're in the waiting room, and other folks can see me with the tub and a white thing moving around inside it. When asked, I said it was a ball python, and a few folks - even a few who stated that they hated/feared snakes, snuck a peek. They were absolutely enthralled with the idea of a pure white snake - and he is quite pretty.

So, while it may be a bit shallow, an ambassador snake should not only be well-tempered and very tolerant of handling, but beautiful in the eye of the non-herper.