I get all sorts of "I don't know how you sleep at night" "They are so slimey" "That's so gross" "Why would you keep something like that?"

I also get a lot of that kind of thing from my grandmother. She HATES snakes and reptiles in general. Your old fashioned afraid of mice, afraid of insects, afraid of snakes kind of gal.

I just shrug it off and tell those that give me reactions like the ones above. "Well if you've never actually touched one or spent time with one, you really can't make that kind of judgement, can you?" Then I walk away. It leaves them thinking though. I've even convinced my mom to pet my corn snake before, so thats progress right there.