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I am really glad that I found this site!! My snakes are my pets and I like to talk about them like everybody else likes to talk about their pets. But in most conversations my mention of snakes is met with a “ewwwww!” or an exaggerated shiver! I mean come on! I ask “Why are you afraid of snakes, were you ever bitten or chased by one?” The reply is “No, I just don’t like them, they scare me.” Such circular logic. Plus, has anyone else had the problem with people knowing that you keep snakes so they have to tell you the story about them killing a snake? I even had a former co-worker bring a dead snake to work in a bucket so she could show me!!! I identified it as a harmless water snake (I can’t remember specifically what it was) and told her that I hoped its relatives came looking for her. (in jest) Why do people do that?? I don’t go up to a cat person and tell them “You know I saw this black cat on the road, it really looked creepy so I ran it over!”

My bottom-line is that it is nice to find a site that actually cares about snakes and respects them for what they contribute to our ecology.
 
Yes, I agree.

Snakes have such an awful reputation. I volunteer in a reptile shop and when I get one of the snakes out people will often skirt round me, or sometimes even run right out the shop! I mean come on... the snake isn't going to leap out of my arms and savage them! :rolleyes:

And then you get the people who look in the tanks and go "Eurgh!" - this frankly annoys me. Not liking them is one thing, but thinking they are 'disguting' is another. They are living creatures which deserve our respect, just like anything else.

Sometimes when I handle the snakes, people ask me "Aren't you scared?" And I just say, no, I think they're wonderful. They're about as scary as a kitten :grin01:

I know that people will have their own opinions on such things, and if someone has a genuine reason for being frightened of snakes, that's fair enough. But I don't like irrational fears of animals. I used to be frightened of spiders, but I made myself hold a tarantula and now I love them too. So I kind of wish people with a snake phobia would try to overcome it. Chances are that these people have never been near a snake, so how do they know what it's like?

My two pennyworth! :)
 
Exactly Plissken!!! Where I work we share a floor of a small building with another firm and I decided that since I spend so much time in my office that I was going to make it more “homey”. So I blew up a couple of pictures of my snakes and brought in some other nature knick knacks to dress the space up. The girl next door came into my office to ask a question saw the pics of my creamcycle corn and ball python, let out some sorta of babbling sound and raced out of the room! I am not joking, she ran from my pictures! She is a very sweet girl and I have respected her fear of snakes by restraining from bringing them to work to show how big they have gotten. (I brought Ruby in when she was small before the girl started working next door) But come on… there are other things to be afraid of.
 
Well now, that's just taking a fear to almost ridiculous lengths - fancy running away from a picture! :rolleyes: I think it's largely just ignorance (and I mean that in the politest way possible) that causes such a widespread fear of snakes. Perhaps they think that all snakes are venomous, or something. When I have a corn out in the shop nearly every person who stops to have a look will ask "Does it bite?" or "Is it poisonous?" People don't tend to realise that a large proportion of snakes are harmless.

It would be a really good idea if there was more educational material about snakes. I hardly ever see books about snakes where I live.
 
I agree

My son has a friend who's mother said that she would not have let him come over if she knew we had a snake. I had the snake out when he was here and the kids loved it. I mean it is a 15 inch long corn, it is not like I have a ten foot long boa and just let it run wild thru the house.
A few bad story in the newspapers and on the news ruined peoples opinion of the great little guys.
 
I had a woman tell me that my hypo blood would make a beautiful snake skin belt. I told her that her new puppy would make a really comfy pair of slippers. :grin01:

When I got my first snakes my husband thought they would be slimy, but he was open to holding one. He couldn't believe how soft it was.
 
Mary-Beth is KoRny said:
I had a woman tell me that my hypo blood would make a beautiful snake skin belt. I told her that her new puppy would make a really comfy pair of slippers. :grin01:
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:rofl: You are to funny!!!

I try to explain to the good ole' boys around here that if you kill every snake that you see, you are causing yourself more problems. We have had a few pigmy rattlesnake's bites in the last year or so. I was really proud of the local paper that printed an article stating that one of the cause could be from the killing of king snakes who are the main predators of the venomous snakes. http://www.oksnakes.org/ have tried to educate the public by posting pics of most of our local snakes.
 
Plissken said:
Sometimes when I handle the snakes, people ask me "Aren't you scared?" And I just say, no, I think they're wonderful. They're about as scary as a kitten :grin01:
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Kittens have drawn more blood from my body than snakes have.
 
BeckyG said:
Kittens have drawn more blood from my body than snakes have.
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Oh, me too - my kitties and my bunny have done me far more damage than a corn snake ever has :grin01:
 
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