“Aren’t you afraid one of your snakes is going to push open their tubs, slither down to your bedroom, and size you up before trying to eat you?” 
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“How can you keep snakes?! They bite!” (My cats and dogs can do so much more damage though?)
“Well I wouldn’t keep a dangerous animal around, you could get an infection and die!” (Most bite infections in hospitals? Humans, cats, dogs…)
“$700 for a snake? Thats so expensive!!” (My $700 snake will outlive your $3500 pedigree dog/cat by 5-10 years on average)
“Won’t they eat your other pets?” (No, if anything it’d be the other way around if they escaped)
“I would never get an animal so useless” (good for you I guess?)
“That must be so cool, never having to clean out their cages!” ( They poop, just like every other animal…)
“So… have you ever used your snake to… y’know… have fun?” (… I… What? No, ew…)
Some people are just… no. I tend to not talk about my snakes much IRL.
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What the hell would make someone even think of this!? And even if they do for whatever reason think of it, who in their right might would think they could even ask that?
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Stupid hurts for a reason.
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“So when you unfreeze the rats, do they come back to life?”
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I met a couple that have multiple rental homes a few years back.
After several months of repairs and service calls, they asked if I’d work on the inside of their personal home.
So as the days went by our conversations turned from work related to more personable.
Pets came up. I told them of my dog Scrappy.
I then mentioned I have ball pythons. The Misses took three big steps away from me and said “You don’t have any with you , do you ?”
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I think that one may win the prize as most bizarre!
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My grandma would never go near my reptile enclosure bc she feared the devil would leap from the animal into her. Strangely enough, its not a snake which is more commonly (unfortunately) associated with the devil/evil…its a fat leopard gecko.
Although to be fair he smiles like this so…maybe she knew something I didn’t
I wish she had learned to love him before she passed, but at least my grandpa came around and would sit at the glass and talk to the good (and only moderately evil) boy
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I wouldn’t say most bizarre, because I can at least see the logic behind it. It’s absolutely terrible logic, but there is some thinking.
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That has been asked to me 
. “Will it bite them after you unfreeze it?”
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The most underrated knowledge to mere peasants who don’t own reptiles. I cleaned out a human size poop yesterday. HUMAN SIZE. I’m talking like a grown man whose been out in the wild eating berries and leaves and gathering all those fibers, size poop.
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OKay yeah not understanding that dead animals don’t resurrect magically is definitely at the top of the list…
As well as not going near it “so the devil can’t leap from it into you.” That’s a new one to me.
It is fascinating which beliefs people over the world have attached to reptiles especially snakes. Something about their long ropey slithery selves fascinates us I think, and the unknown is easy to fear.
I live in a highly religious area myself, but this particular religion insists all animals are innocent and natural, so people here who hate snakes tend to just think they’re “slimy/gross/creepy,” not usually literal evil.
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I usually say monster Rottweiler sized 
but human sized works too for my retics!!
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Honestly i hope i never know, but i assume it is related to snake depictions and use in adult themed content (I know there are a few music videos that feature snakes to help allude to sinful/adult activities)
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I 3rd that, LOL. My female dwarf never fails to surprise w/ her “Poop-casso’s” she leaves me. 
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Wow. Just…wow. 
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I’ve also been asked this. More than once. Where do people even get this nonsense?
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An old fb photo and a fake news article
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I should have guessed it originated on Facebook. It’s where intellect and decency go to die.
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I worked with the small animals at a summer camp, and my goodness, while it was mostly the older kids (And grown men lol) who were afraid of our ball python, or the tiny corn snake we had for a bit, one younger child absolutely freaked out when I took out our BP. He was literally screaming at me to put it back, and saying it was a creature of the devil, and that it was the devil… There were braver eight year old girls that week.
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