Snake reactions from your family and friends

[Dianne]

The thing that I stress to friends and family when they are invited to my home but are squeamish about snakes, is how the snakes are secured. In other words, what type of locked (stress the "locked" part) enclosure that I am using for my snakes. I swear, it's amazing how many folks believe that I let my snakes run free in the house like a dog or a cat. lol

<><Peace

I get the same thing! If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked if I keep then in cages or let them roam the house, I could add at least one more snake with the complete setup...probably more.

On a positive note, because of the few FB posts I made about my pets, I had a conversation with some folks that I never would have expected to show interest. I go to some local classic car cruise-ins and one of the guys mentioned my snakes because he’d seen a recent post. That started a sideline conversation about the types of snakes I had. The first guy even brought up my posts to share photos. There were a couple of guys that didn’t care for snakes, but everyone was civil and most of the group seemed interested to hear a little about them. Even if I didn’t win anyone over to keeping snakes, I shared some info and it was a positive experience. A couple of the folks mentioned how pretty they were. I think it helps that the posts were about my BP’s and they are particularly cute.