Yup, it’s sad to know that a lot of us can not share our passion with our families. My family does not know, I have not spoken to them in 7 years, but my husband's family keeps going on this kick that the snakes are going to escape and kill us or our daughter.

This is going to be the first time I spoke of this situation on here.
Right now our daughter is in the custody of the state, after my husband and I lost our jobs my husband and I got into a fight, when our daughter was at his mother's house. Because of this the state came and took her. One of the biggest claims they are now using against us is the snakes.
"They spent money on snakes when they cannot afford to pay the bills"
We got our tax return, paid all the bills, and then got a few snakes, a new camera, and a new guitar.....never even mentioned the new guitar, or the camera which cost 2X what the snakes did.

As of this moment my snakes are the only thing keeping me going.
I have been trying to dig up all the good things about snakes to take to court next month, but even with some great sites out there, good info is still hard to find.

At least 4-5 X per day I hear "you should kill those nasty things before they kill you or your kids" or "why would you want those" or "that’s nasty, those things are evil"

I will usually say back "I hate cats, THOSE things are Evil"

So yah, there is a lot of snake "racism" going on, and it is hard to deal with, but if you love them you endure and prevail.