Parents think snakes are evil (I want a bp?)

[serpenttongues]

Wow no. No. That is NOT how you prove you're "responsible", that is how you prove you can't be trusted. Your mom has an obvious discomfort, and you disrespected her, and continue to disrespect her by filling her home with things that make her feel threatened. If you were my kid, I would have taken the first snake back to the place you bought it from and gotten a refund. That your parent doesn't have the will enforce you not walking all over her and :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:ting on her feelings, doesn't make you somehow magically right about it. It makes you a pretty darn irresponsible prick. From the sound of this post it almost seems like you delight in tormenting her, which is a pretty mean and nasty thing to do.

I understand having disagreements, or differing points of view from your parents. My mother doesn't care for snakes either, nor does my husband's mom or his uncle. Do you know how we handle that? We keep the snakes in OUR space, and warmed them up through responsible education and advocation. They still don't like snakes, but they like seeing pics of the kids with them, they will (from a respectful distance) look at and enjoy the snakes, and even recently they've been helping me share and spread news about the Lacey ban and USARK, because they see that beyond their fear, snakes are still pretty cool, and so are the people that keep them.

Okay wow there is absolutely no need to start name-calling. Like stated, I BOUGHT my first snake at 15 after my parents wouldn't. You DO NOT know my situation, me, or my parents so there is absolutely no need to be inconsiderate. I'm a 20 year old adult with a job and college, I still live with my mom and she has never truly had a problem with my snake-keeping - what parent would have a problem with their child's passion? I have converted my sister to a snake lover, my dad doesn't care either way about snakes but enjoys my lizard, and all my family who has come over to my house has held the snakes. Even my grandma, who hates them. I made my uncle like my pied so much he wanted to take him home, and I showed my 7 year old cousin who was deathly afraid of snakes and screaming and crying when I brought them out, that snakes are cool (he was begging his mom for one at the end of the day). So no, I'm not an ignorant prick because my mom goes "ewwww those are so nasty" when I bring them out, or when I'm cleaning tubs. She does not feel threatened, so does not feel disrespected. She is not tormented. She has calmly held the snakes before. She is also an over dramatic lady (that's where all the "ewww's" and "nasty's" and "gross" come from.)
I lived with both my parents at the age of 15 when getting my first snake, as dad's rules went - as long as I cared for it, I could keep it. It's not much different than bringing home a KITTEN off the side of the road.
So don't go jumping to assumptions that I'm some wild little child who doesn't know how to handle himself. I'm a loving pet owner who has boas, pythons, colubrids, fish, lizards, cats, and a dog. Never have any of them gone hungry or suffered for any reason. I put my pets before myself and I think that makes me damn responsible.










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