I totally know what you mean.
My husbands grandparents freaked when they found out we had a ball python ( in their minds pythons means gigantic snake that is going to eat you) and were saying it was going to eat our children and so on and so forth. There are some people that there is just no convincing. Its really sad because a lot of people base these fears on what the media has portrayed snake to be. Monsterous man eating animals, which they are not. But unfortunately the media will continue to make them out that way everytime an accident happens involving a person and a snake.

Then theres my mom who comes over just to see my snakes and handle them. She loves them and they really interest her.
Kristy