you say that the average woman is scared of snakes and cannot be converted, well you are very wrong. When my wife and I started dating 4 1/2 years ago she was petrified of snakes. She was raised in a family that the only good snake was a dead snake and her mother was very efficient with a shovel. After seeing a pied for the first time online my wife fell in love with them and just had to have one. We now have over 100 snakes, spent well over 40k on our collection and guess what, her mother will come into our reptile room and look at the snakes and comment on how pretty they are. Her mother has also allowed several non-venomous snakes to live when she finds them in her yard now which would have never of happened before.

Another example to show you. When my wife and I moved down here to sw florida, our neighbors thought we were the craziest people around. I took their 7 yr old son under my wing. They later found a small corn snake and he wanted to know everything about it and his mother reluctantly allowed him to keep it even though she hated snakes. Now they have 6 corn snakes, 1 hogg island boa, 1 great plains rat, 1 pac man frog, 1 singapore blue taurantula (sp) and his mother has even helped me clean my snakes tubs before.

So basically, if the experiences are positive ones. Anyone can be converted to liking snakes, it just takes time and someone to show some patience.



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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


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