I forget too that some kids aren't used to pets especially snakes. We had one little boy in the house visiting who saw a snake and started going on about "snake! it's mean! it bites". My son who was 4 at the time, sort of looked up and in this eyerolling kind of "oh for heaven's sakes" voice said...."it's JUST a snake!" then went back to watching his cartoons LOL.

Recently when he got his own BP from Cue I had to confirm to his teacher that he indeed did own a ball python as she and his classmates thought he was making up a story.