Stop insulting my pet

[bluewind]

Do you ever get tired of the reactions people have to your pet? I have this lovely 3 year old albino sand boa who wouldn't hurt a fly, let's kids hold her, likes to be pet, is scared of live food (she only eats frozen), and is friendly to my dogs (I had to scold my Rat Terrier the other day for trying to clean Lily's face!) and yet the go to response people have is how they kill snakes in their yard or the only good snake is a dead one. That's really messed up! I don't go up to a dog owner and immediately talk about all the dogs I've shot in my yard or call it evil because I'm not an [censored].

While we're at it, my snake also does not allow the devil to get to me or corrupt my soul. I'm not a satanist or some other religion that is viewed as evil. I'm an atheist and no the snake didn't cause that either. No she doesn't attack people and even if she did it would be a glorified paper cut because of her tiny mouth. No I don't have a thing of live mice in my house and throw them in her cage because they could actually hurt her, so I use humanly euthanized frozen mice that I thaw out. Stop quoting stories of people killed by snakes or eaten by them because mine can't do either, so how is that a good argument on how snakes are bad? And neighbor lady, don't tell my dad to come and kill my snake when I'm not home because that is just [censored] evil.

Just today, my landlady came by and grimaced at Lily. She was just chilling in my shirt tail with her head laying on my hand as I stroked her back. Then the landlady randomly brought up talk of killing snakes with a mention that she was sure mine was nice and all, but others weren't. This was followed a few minutes later by a repairman who talked about killing snakes and then mentioned how massive boas eat people. I held my tongue as I was screaming on the inside. She's my pet! And that is not okay. Talking about killing someone's pet who has never harmed another person should not be a common reaction, and yet here we are. So stop insulting my pet people of the world. You should know better.