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Um Ok

I started off as a teenager with big boas and Burms. Been there, done that! Well, I DO have a dwarf retic now. But only one! That is more than big enough!

If you think women snake keepers get strange reactions now, you should have been a woman keeping snakes back in the '70s. We were REALLY a rarity back then!
 
Arcanefate said:
I get the same deal from people because I'm female.

But the worst... the absolute worst... is that those same people automatically assume that because I have snakes of any kind, piercings, and tattoos, I must be homosexual. :confused: :angry01:

Not that it matters if I am or not, it's just making a generalization like that because it's the only way they can fathom a woman owning a "manly" pet, especially if it's one their afraid of, just angers me beyong belief. It's another one of those stereotypes that people seem to cling to. :blowup:
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Wait a minute, what are you trying to say? ... I am a woman snake owner, I have my tongue pierced and have a few tattoos... :grin01: I am also a mother to 4 toddlers and a wife. :cool: :wavey:
 
SilentLore said:
Wait a minute, what are you trying to say? ... I am a woman snake owner, I have my tongue pierced and have a few tattoos... :grin01: I am also a mother to 4 toddlers and a wife. :cool: :wavey:
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*gulp* did you say 4 toddlers? Yikes woman, you got some 'nads....

Living alone in a house with two teenage girls, I'm hoping people think I'm a gun toting, tattoo wearing, pierced female who happens to think Corn snakes rule. And if they don't then I'll bring out my very large, very black and menacing Sexy Mexy. She's a sweetheart, but people really are afraid of totally black snakes for some reason. :shrugs:

Kudos to you SilentLore :D You are the woman of the hour!!

-Tonya
 
MaizeCrazy said:
*gulp* did you say 4 toddlers? Yikes woman, you got some 'nads....

Living alone in a house with two teenage girls, I'm hoping people think I'm a gun toting, tattoo wearing, pierced female who happens to think Corn snakes rule. And if they don't then I'll bring out my very large, very black and menacing Sexy Mexy. She's a sweetheart, but people really are afraid of totally black snakes for some reason. :shrugs:

Kudos to you SilentLore :D You are the woman of the hour!!

-Tonya
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LOL! Thanks! ;) Finding out that I was going to be a mommy to Quadruplets at the age of 25 was the shock of my life that's for sure.

Not sure if this is allowed, its not a plug for a selling snake site so maybe its ok... this is my kids website - www.kuhrquads.com
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p.s. My husband won't let me have Balls... or any Python for that matter...I tried :grin01:
 
Well here is my story and telling people I have snakes. I am a grandmother and my other hobby is quilting. People just can't believe "you actually have a snake in your house?" No! I have five. "Aren't you afraid to have your grandchildren over and around the snakes?" No! They have Leopard Geckos, corn snake, ferrets, all the other usual animals, and they each want a snake for Christmas. It is as if I am committing a crime by being a snake owning grandmother.
 
I've gotten a few hassles from the boid people telling me I have bass bait, but on the whole most are fine. I do have the pythons too (my Green trees) and most people when they hear python think I have 80 ft. monsters or something! I have a really pretty Green tree python necklace and some lady saw it one day and I guess she didn't realize it was a snake at first. She thought it was some aboriginal art and her enthusiasm dropped about 10 points when she found out it was a snake :)
 
Yeah I have corns and balls... pythons that is. My wife likes the corns better... ya know I need to leave that where it is.

I just aquired quite a few more bp's (5 and I already had 3) so I guess I am in both clubs now.

actually my 6 year old just got her first bite by a corn today... she was feeding her hungry anery mot and the mot thought my daughter was sweeter than the F/T. She bled and everything. She cried but she handled it well!!!
 
Grrrrrr!
I've actually heard the comment "Corns are just a beginner snake, what have you moved up to now?" It makes me so angry. It's like saying to someone who owns 3 lovely golden retrievers, "Thats just a beginners dog, have you gotten a rottweiler or pitbull yet?" That is just so ignorant and insulting.

Corns are my absolute favorite snake, ever. My garter, king, and ball pythons are not even in the running. (Do balls EVER eat?) And just like I would never own, or want to own, a guard dog, I would never own, or want to own a big old mean dangerous snake. No giant constrictors and hots for me, thank you. I don't even understand why someone would WANT to own a dangerous animal. Also in my opinion, corns are by far the most beautiful.

As far as being a female snake owner, I get the weirdest reactions. Its like I just said I have leprosy or something.
 
Being here in England, seeing a snake is a rarity, and most people do not go to the zoo very often either....
When I tell my friends I am getting a pet corn snake, they are like "wow, cool, how big does it get?"
I say 6 foot at the large end of the scale, and they are pretty impressed...??
6 foots not that big...
anyway, yeah, people are generally impressed...
 
TandJ said:
As a man, no one nothers me about corns, if anything there is a fascination, and if it was an issue to sdomeone else, forget them, thats there issues, I don't need a big snale to prove I am manly... A breeder that I have bought corns from rides a Harley.. Oddly enough, there was a point when I meet up with the Dude at a Harley Dealership to pick up some corns from him.. Long hair and beard..


This is me.. Not holding a corn here, but another colobrid.. Personally I don't care to what people might think about me keeping corns, contrary to what some seem to think.. This is certainly a real snake, wanna feel him squeeze the hand tight? Seems to constrict a lot tighter than the BP's I have..

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Yea, so no ribbing here.. Regards Tim of T and J
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Tim, where are you fron?? You look REALLY familiar!!!
 
Well, most people tend to be curious about owning snakes in general, but especially the feeding part!

To be honest I would love to own a tiger python for it's coloring and patterning but also for it's impressiveness.....but it is too big (for now :rolleyes: :grin01: )... since b/fr is worried about space already.. And I do not want to sell any snakes I have now... If I would have been on my own, I would own an albino tiger for sure, rigth in the living room! Now my new cheynei is what comes closest..... Though my blue beauty already is the longest and will be until I do buy a tiger someday :grin01:
 
When I tell people I have snakes, they are pretty cool about it and want to learn more. It's when they discover I have 11 of them they get that 'she's a freak!' look in their eyes! Direct quote of a conversation between my snake-fearing mate and me:

*I see him on the walk back from the petshop, show him new purchase of hatchling amel cornsnake*

Him: Gah! *backs away* That's a snake!
Me: No! Really? *looks in bag* Wow, you're right. I'm sure I asked the guy for a bunny rabbit.
Him: You do know that snakes caused the fall of man?
Me: So did women.
Him: Aren't you worried it'll try and eat you?
*We both peer meditatively into the deli cup.*
Him: Well, ok, maybe not for a while........

Anyway, nope, people react the same when I show them my corns as when I show them my brb and burm (though I suspect that will change when they see the burm in 6 months, mwaahahahaaaaaaa :grin01: )
 
ickle_moose said:
*I see him on the walk back from the petshop, show him new purchase of hatchling amel cornsnake*

Him: Gah! *backs away* That's a snake!
Me: No! Really? *looks in bag* Wow, you're right. I'm sure I asked the guy for a bunny rabbit.
Him: You do know that snakes caused the fall of man?
Me: So did women.
Him: Aren't you worried it'll try and eat you?
*We both peer meditatively into the deli cup.*
Him: Well, ok, maybe not for a while........
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ROFL!!! :roflmao: :rofl: :roflmao:

I had to take my son to the doctor yesterday and one of the nurses there told me she had three pythons. When I told her that I also owned some snakes (a Slowinski, a black ratsnake, and a diamondback watersnake), she shrinked in fearful thaught (?!?!?) and said those scare her because they are too fast and it was time to get the shovel when she sees one of those. :twoguns:
 
See what I don't understand is the mentality some people have that bigger snakes that are more difficult to keep are somehow "better" than cornsnakes. Why in the world would I want a mean hard-to-handle difficult-to-keep snake that could possibly pose a danger to my neighbor's pug? Cornsnakes are the PERFECT snake to me. Beauiful, colorful, the perfect size and easy to keep. Who could ask for anything more?

The funniest thing anyone ever said to me....My husband and I own a bike shop (bicycles not motercycles). We are in our mid 40s. We are friendly with another guy who owns a bike shop who is about 10 years older than we are. When he learned I keep snakes he said "Oh that is so Goth. You're a little bit scary".
I STILL smile when I think of it!
 
Well, if I were a Harry Potter character I would probably be Molly Weasley :)....or possibly Professor Sprout.
 
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