Quote Originally Posted by Debbienflorida View Post
even with the normal aversion most people have to snakes he agreed to a BP when he realized how bad I still wanted one
I told my girlfriend about wanting to get a snake some time ago, and she made her aversion to "the big ones" known. I told her that I was getting a ball python and they around 4-5 feet fully grown, and she said "ONLY four feet???"

My corn snake was 6'2'' fully grown.. lol. It just makes me smile because when I think of "the big ones", I just remember my first time petting a big ol' 18 foot burmese at a reptile show when I was 8.

Also every time I've talked about getting a snake, she always asks "it won't bite me right?" She's probably asked me that 10 or 15 times now. I made sure to tell her that you can't control snakes completely, and young ones tend to bite a bit more, but if I thought the snake was going nippy I wouldn't suggest she hold it.