this and most of the other off the wall questions came out long before fb and even the internet.
Now the
This is one have haven’t herd before. Really makes you think about the people who say things like that.
This I have heard in a different way “do they poop”.
Both of these, I just have to shake my head and hope the rest of the world is not like this. A little common sense can go a long way.
Some of my neighbors are convinced that snakes are slimy… They’ve never even touched one, and wouldn’t listen to me, the person who took care of one for six month at a summer camp.
Also that they’ll bit you and cut you up with their sharp teeth… Okay…? You have super energetic dogs, I’m more worried about being bit by one of those that a little noodle
It cracks me up when non-reptile people say stuff like this…as if that’s not true of any animal that has teeth and/or claws (like, say, their dogs and cats). My cats “cut me up” way more than my snakes ever have (or could, frankly).
“I thought rats are black with red eyes not white with black eyes.”
Nope, that is a cartoon 
. Literally that came from an adult person.
You can’t imagine what they were thinking 
Right? Also as opposed to lizards, snakes aren’t built to tear off chunks like a dog or a cat (especially dogs) so while yeah I’d imagine some larger snake species can bite deep, they arent likely to be the messy torn disaster that a serious dog or cat bite would be 
I can’t say the same for lizards tho, especially monitor species 
I’d rather let my snake bite me on purpose ten times
than EVER get bit by a cat again. That bite was way more trouble, pain and five days of heavy medication. I’ll take snake bites thanks.
Neither of my snakes have ever tried to bite me.
Both of my snakes have each bitten me once. One didn’t even draw blood, and the other barely broke the skin. Neither was at all painful.
My cats, on the other hand…
I love my cats. I do. But whenever I had a student who was worried about being bitten by a classroom corn snake, I would often ask the class if anyone currently had injuries from a pet cat or dog. Someone did. Every time I asked.
I’ve had many conversations about how “I’m going to get sick” from owning pythons, specifically pythons, it’s surprising how many people think pythons just like, magically make people unhealthy like physically? I’ll admit I’m not healthy mentally because of them, I love them a bit too much, but I’m not going to fall over and croak from petting one of them. Another exchange I had was a peer remarking that they would (I get this is a joke but I take things seriously, including jokes, especially unfunny ones regarding me or my animal’s or my property’s safety since it’s just too far) literally break into my house via a window and find my reptiles and gave rather gory descriptions on how they would execute each one, of course being the self defense maniac I am I openly admitted the measures I’m willing to take to protect myself and my animals which seemed to spook them just enough. It’s insane the amount of people think it’s ok to make close to actual threats about people themselves and their animals because they’re simply uneducated on a topic
I get the “turn it into a belt/pair of boots” comments a lot. Usually by my father and his side of the family. But I also have a customer who comes in now and then who likes to chit-chat, and the conversation will inevitably circle around to “So how’s my pair of boots coming along?”, despite repeated reminders that no, these are pets.
Edit: I also get The Look a lot whenever customers find out I have snakes. One lady even went so far as to tell me, that she told her nephew, a guy I’ve never once met, “Not to date that business name girl, because she has snakes”.
Really? (When they hear i keep and breed, probably, I am assuming, that i dont look like a stereotypical keeper.)
Or ewww… gross. I respond uour dog is ugly or gross too lol
I get that too. I laugh
Yea, thats why i keep them near the teenagers room haha J/k. My biggest is around 5 foot ball python. Lol
What the Actual F. Ewwwwwwwww
My cat sent me to the ER with a nasty infection, a snake never has done anything more then a couple dots
Great thread. I’ve heard the “snakes are slimy” one a lot, and I’m always wondering why people who have never held a snake are so confident about that. They always say it like they know better than me, the person who is usually holding a snake while they say it. I also had lots of people ask me “is that a horned toad?” back when I had a bearded dragon. Not sure where they got that one from, they don’t even look remotely similar. On a similar note, I’ve also had people act shocked when I tell them that I keep pythons. I guess they imagine some giant monstrosities? People are weird.
Yeah, I’ve had people react with horror when I tell them I have a python and a boa. They hear “python” and assume it must be 20 feet long, and they hear “boa” and they assume it’s a 300-pound anaconda. And then I’ve actually had people try to argue with me when I tell them the actual size of my (blood) python and (sand) boa…like they’re warning me that one day these snakes will get large enough to eat me and I’d better watch my back around them. Just…
People are weird indeed. 
I’ve had that too, lol. I get the “they’ll get as large as the enclosure”, which doesn’t make any sense. I usually give up after that, lol.
We do educational programs and hear some crazy things. This isn’t reptile-related, but we once had our Madagascar lesser hedgehog tenrec out with us. I was talking to a child and their parent and they asked where he was from. I said “Oh, he’s from a Madagascar” and the parent replied (completely straight-faced) “He was in the movie?”