I can definitely understand peoples fear of snakes, my Mom was reasonably afraid of them until she held my ball, that changed everything. She would still scream if she saw a wild rodent in the house and is uneasy about me wishing to breed rats (gotta work her into allowing me) which is also understandable as she has had previous bad experiences with large rodents. I am petrified of centipedes, arachs, even harmless little crickets, basically any bug drives me NUTS, I plan to get over it in the future but I don't think I'll ever be at a state where I am actually comfortable with them. You have to respect a persons fear because everybody is afraid of something, without fear what would the world be?