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Originally Posted by blindfireak40
EVERYTHING about this. My girlfriend has always been an animal person, but not super-enthused about reptiles. The more she's been around them, however, and the more of them she's seen, the more she's wanted more. She went from "You have a snake, that's enough" to "Yeah, when we have our careers we can get a Burmese Python maybe" in the span of about 5 pet store visits. Everyone's different, but it sounds like your wife has a foundational acceptance of reptiles.
What also may be worthwhile is visiting a shop or show that has a well-adjusted adult specimen (or an adult of any larger constrictor); snakes are deceptive in size. That is, oftentimes an 8 or 9 foot reptile doesn't seem that large in person. When we think "8 or 9 feet" it seems mind-bogglingly large, but in my (admittedly limited) experience, I've been surprised several times to learn that the snake I guessed at 5 and a half feet is pushing 7 and a half.
Above all, I hope you can find a good home for your boa; it would be wonderful if you could keep it and I wish you the best of luck  |
My girlfriend is the same way.
When I met her, she had never held a snake before, and was not exactly a snake person. She fell in love with my Ball Python because he's so docile. It eventually got to the point that she would feel comfortable taking him out and handling him when I wasn't even home.
Now it's reached the point that she has a dream snake of her own, a super zebra carpet python.
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