Re-education is key! Although it's hard to get most people to listen. People often the fear what they don't understand and are uninterested in changing what they think they know about such things.
I think my best comments were,
"Why can't you just get a REAL pet like a cat or dog?" - ex boyfriend
"Why would you keep such a dangerous animal? Arn't all snakes venous? "
- Aunt
"...that isn't a kitten."
-friend
"Remind me to never stay at your house, I'd hate to wake up to a snake strangling me in my sleep." - Grandma
"Don't be thinking you can bring that thing over whenever you want. That snake isn't allowed to just roam around my house... you don't have it on you do you?" -Dad
"I'm just worried that one day your roommate is going to call me and tell me your dead because you insist on keeping bloodthirsty killers as pets."
-mom
As you may have noticed I don't get my love of snakes/reptiles from my family. I deal with it all the time and love the chance to tell them what owning snakes is REALLY like. It takes a while but slowly they are beginning to listen.
Luckily I have an uncle that shares my passion for reptiles, and the rest of our family looks at us like we have three heads at family get togethers when we start talking about them.
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