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    Dumb questions thread.

    Dont know if anything like this was posted, but i will go ahead and explain this.

    What are some of the dumbest things you ever been asked regarding your snakes? For me, i would have to say it was "Why would you want such a horrible animal like that? It says in the bible they are evil!" Thank GOD for Bible-thumping half-wits.

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    Re: Dumb questions thread.

    Well.. I have been asked that same question. Being a christian myself, it saddens me that some christians can't appreciate the beautiful animals that snakes are.

    Anyway.. I have been asked 'does it still have the stinger in it's tail'
    'is it a cobra'
    'where is the rattle'
    'why doesn't it eat you'
    'do it's eggs come out of it's mouth'
    'does it poop' / 'does it have a butt'
    'will the tongue sting me'
    'why isn't it slimy'
    'if I cut it in half will it become two snakes'

    etc etc..

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    Re: Dumb questions thread.

    Keep in mind this question was about a BP... not a retic/burm...

    I was talking to one of my pit managers at work. He was telling me how he got his dog snake trained... For those of you who don't know how rattle snake training works... They take a venomoid rattler, put it in the middle of a room, let it coil and rattle... and then owners walk their dogs up to it, let the dog get curious and sniff around it.. and then they shock the hell out of the poor dog. Theory being, that the dog will now keep YOU away from rattlers when they're out in the desert with you.

    So... to make conversation, I told him that Alika (my German Shepherd.... my 90 lb German Shepherd) gets kinda excited from time to time... and I'd be cuirous what she'd do if she were to knock over the viv that Jake's kept in. He says.... "Ball Pythons are constrictors right?" I say, "Yes." He says "So would it just kill the dog?"

    Yeah... my 3 ft BP will constrict and kill my 90 lb German Shepherd.
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    Re: Dumb questions thread.

    "Like, is it slimy?"

    "Has it ever tried to eat you?"

    "Aren't they poisonous?"
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    Re: Dumb questions thread.

    Haha I can beat all those! Best question I got was, "Do they breed?". That right there made me laugh so hard!

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    Re: Dumb questions thread.

    I'm a Christian, too...and it saddens me that just because there are idiots out there that say they are Christians that people think all Christians are idiots. Being one myself, it's natural that I also know LOTS of Bible-believing Christians...and I don't know a single one who believes snakes are "evil." They may have the same kinds of dislikes and misconceptions of snakes as anyone else, but the "evilness" of them never enters the conversation.

    I'm quite sure there are "Bible-thumpers" out there that use the Creation story to justify their prejudices against snakes...just as they use it to justify every other judgemental attitude they have against the world. But please don't think we're all like that.

    Off my now....sorry!

    The best (worst??? LOL) question I ever had was when I was talking to a very hoity-toity lady about what I want for my future and I mentioned a dream of breeding snakes. She gets a look of horror on her face and says "How in the world do you breed snakes???"
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    Re: Dumb questions thread.

    what gets me even more than the questions is when i tell someone about my snakes and my interest in herps and they immediately launch into detailed stories about each and every snake that they have had to kill. the one that got into the garage, the one in their mom's backyard, the one at the lake, the one in the woods that time when they were hiking, etc, etc. why would i want to hear that when i just told them i LIKE snakes and keep them as pets? that would be like someone telling me that they like kittens--they even have 2 or 3 of their own--and me then going into full graphic detail about how i murder every kitten that crosses my path. (no, i don't kill kittens, but you get the point.)
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    Re: Dumb questions thread.

    I've got a good one, 'Do they breathe through their skin?'
    "Wookies were slaves because the Empire couldn't tame Ewoks. You'd try to get them to do something, and they'd just bark at ya and throw a stick."

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    Re: Dumb questions thread.

    I was also asked by my grandma, can I feed it lettuce instead? ...

    Funny things is, my grandma HATES it that I have snakes. I had some frozen pinkies in the freezer, and she's like "You can't have them in there!". And I asked "Why?" and she said "'Cause I don't like the way they are killed!". And I laughed and I said "Uh, hello?! You got like 20 pounds of meat ranging from chicken, steaks and ribs, so why is it ok that you can contribute to their terrible death, yet the way mother nature uses mice as a way to feed snakes, is wrong?". She just replied "I hate the way they are killed". So me being me, I got as graphic as I could and explained in detail the death of a cow. Yet she still doesn't like the way snake eat their pray ... Go figure huh?

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    Re: Dumb questions thread.

    Right? Livestock is usually just slaughtered, but with frozen mice/rats they're usually CO2'ed first.
    "Wookies were slaves because the Empire couldn't tame Ewoks. You'd try to get them to do something, and they'd just bark at ya and throw a stick."

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