Negative comments

[zina10]

Yes, we all do.

Those kind of comments don't bother me to much. Its just a fact that many people have a fear of snakes. Growing up, you are bombarded with seeing snakes in a negative way. You hear it from family members and friends as you grow up, you see them portrayed negatively in movies, on the news, nowadays on the internet and social media. For many people it developed into a phobia.

They just repeat what they have heard and seen all their lives. Its our opportunity to educate just a little bit here and there. And sometimes it does do some good. There are many people in my life that now comment on how pretty the snakes are. They will still say they are afraid of them, but no more do I hear how "only a dead snake is a good snake" and other ignorant remarks from those people. Some of them have genuinely become interested in them. My sister has "adopted" (not actually, but she says she is the godmother) the last of my home bred hatchlings at my house and is already sad that she will be sold eventually. She watched that clutch come out of their eggs and I swear she sat in front of that incubator for longer periods of time just staring at eggs with slits in them, than I did All of my family used to fear and somewhat "hate" snakes. She named that little one, too.

Its just one of those things. You have to learn to let it roll off your skin. Try to educate and if people aren't open to it, just smile and ignore.

What ticks me off are the so called experts , going on how those animals only belong in the wild, how they must be so unhappy in their small enclosures. Usually from people like the one, who had 3 dogs run over cause she couldn't bother to contain them correctly. And those 3 were over a span of a couple of month, not like she couldn't fix things. Not only that, but she also keeps her horses sub par and had 3 cats disappear because she felt they would be "happier" outside.

But again, it does no good to argue with certain people. With some it is genuine concern, with others its just smug smart aleck attitude.