are you scared of snakes?

Question

i own snakes and most of my friends dont want to come over cuz they are scared. any idea how i could get them to not be scared of them?

Answer 1

Most people are scared of snakes because they don't understand them... You'd be amazed how many people still think they're "slimy." Try to educate your friends and somehow get them to touch one, even hold one. I've worked with snakes at the zoo, a pet shop, public outreach programs, and with my own friends, and have dealt with a lot of people who are terrified of snakes. Quite often once they've watched one for a while and pet one, they come to realize just how unfounded their dislike for them actually is. One of my friends actually went from not wanting to touch them to wanting to own one in about 10 minutes! lol...

Answer 2

Snakes are very misunderstood creatures. I suppose it may be some primal, hereditary fear ingrained in some of us that makes us unreasonably afraid of snakes.

Some snakes should be feared, with good reason, but most are harmless and even beneficial. In India Rock Pythons were imported to control the rat population which was causing another outbreak of Bubonic Plague.

Just try to educate your friends, little by little. When they find their courage they will become curious and eventually might even come to 'like' pet snakes.

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Answer 3

I was 100% scared of snakes. My brother has a 7 ft boa, he made me pick it up so that i could see that it wouldn't harm me. I'm still a little scared of them but not as much, i don't trust them. He also makes me touch it at least 2 times a week. Maybe you can try some of these things with your friends, it really helped me. Good luck.

Answer 4

No but I do give venomous snakes & large constrictors the respect they demand.
I would suggest using a very mellow corn snake or kingsnake to show them snakes are not necessarily dangerous or hideous creatures. After showing them how easy it is to handle the snake, ask them if they would like to touch or hold the snake.
Make sure everyong washes up afterwards - we don't want anyone to get salmonella.

Answer 5

maybe by telling about snakes by this outline it might help them:

1.
Evolution of Snakes
Snakes, like all living things, are the product of the process of evolution, which allows species to change over time in response to environmental factors to produce entirely new species. The engine of evolution is "natural selection", in which those individual animals that possess superior survival traits tend to live longer than others and reproduce, in turn passing those same traits on to their offspring.

2. Snake Facts
The largest snakes in the world are members of the family Boidae, which includes the boa and the python. Some members of this family never attain a length of more than 0.6 m (2 ft), but the largest may grow to more than 9 m (30 ft).

3. Sea Snakes
Sea snakes have specialized flattened tails for swimming and have valves over their nostrils which are closed underwater. They differ from eels in that they don't have gill slits and have scales. Due to their need to breathe air, they are usually found in shallow water where they swim about the bottom feeding on fish, fish eggs and eels.

4. Introduction to Snakes
Snakes are the most modern of reptiles, first appearing in the fossil record during the time of the dinosaurs. It is thought that they evolved from ground dwelling or burrowing lizards that exploited the survival advantages to be found in a cylindrical, legless body.

5. Snakes
Depending on the species, snakes may be egg-layers or give birth to live young. They generally mate in the spring, shortly after leaving whatever hollow, burrow or rock crevice has sheltered them through winter hibernation.

6. Snakes: General Information
Snakes are elongated, legless animals with dry, scale-covered skin. Their skin is unusually elastic, which allows it to stretch when large prey items are swallowed.

7. Snakes
Throughout the years, our long, slinky friends have been both loved, and loathed, by many. Unlike lizards, they lack certain body features such as shoulders, moveable eyelids, and ears. In fact, snakes cannot hear. For their protection, they have a built-in sense of radar they use through their deeply forked tongues. This radar enables a snake to taste and smell their environment, and gives it the ability to follow scent trails.

8. How many years does a snake live?
First of all there are different life spans for snakes in the wild and snakes that are captive. (Captive means raised with people.) The normal life span for wild snakes is hard to figure out because you have to keep a lot of things in mind.

Answer 6

Yes, I have been afraid of snakes since I was about 12 and a water moccasin circled me while I was swimming. I got out of the water and ran up a small hill, and then turned around to look, hesitantly. It must have looked like a cartoon the way I took off! LOL
I don't think you should try and force your friends to like your pets, it's their aversion, let them deal with it in their own way.

Remember, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar!

Answer 7

No, but I have a healthy respect for them. I don't want to handle them, but I have, just to show my daughter, when she was younger, that they aren't slimy or 'icky'.
Chased a black snake, about 4' long, out of the back yard yesterday with a broom. One of the hubby's dogs cornered it. The same dog that has killed and eaten 2 bunnies, 2 moles, and one bird. She wasn't trying to eat the snake, only barking at it, probably waiting for it to turn its back so she could eat it too.

Answer 8

I love snakes, I have a kingsnake named Cleo who is just a baby, that is the reason my friends do come over. And my tip is to just not let them be near the snakes, but them in their cage and then they might come over and not be afraid.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

nope i think snakes r awesome but my mom doesn't so i probably will never have 1 as a pet and sorry i don't know how to get them to not be scared if i did i'd help my mom not be scared of them