I totally understand your feelings. People are idiots some times. I try really hard to be nice but sometimes you just get the most ridiculus things said to you. Like how so and so's uncle had a 15 foot ball python that ate his cat. I tried to "educate" the guy that balls don't get that big but he argued until he walked away. I have also heard that all snakes should be banned as pets because of all those giant snakes in the everglades. I asked that guy if he had a cat and when he responded that he did I told him that pet cats do more damage to native fauna than any other pet animal I knew of he just huffed and stormed away.

The fact is reptiles in general have not had good PR people from the beginning. All we can do is keep trying and ignore the idiots.

Good luck!