Negative comments

[Mc.mischievous7]

I would say about 75% of the people I have told I have a snake to have said, "Did you hear about that lady who had a snake in her bed, and it stopped eating, and it kept laying straight out next to her, , because it was preparing to eat her!"

And then I explain that first, that story is not even true. Secondly, I take it as an opportunity to explain that snakes are ambush predators, and that is not a situation in which they would typically find themselves in in the wild, and don't really have the instincts to do something like that. Then I ask them if it was an anaconda, and they always say, "I don't know," and I say an anaconda is pretty much the only snake who would really have the girth to eat a full grown person. I take it as an excuse to talk about snakes with someone who was really just trying to make me feel like I've made a bad choice in a pet.

If they are still listening, I tell them that Ghost is less than 2.5 pounds, and he is not stupid enough to even try to eat me.

OMG! They said the same thing to me too!!! like I havent heard about it before. As if it was suppose to scare me.

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