Funny questions from non-herp keepers.

[serpenttongue]

ok i have a winner here....this was from a 21 yr old female visitor to my house.."But arent ALL snakes venemous"....?? wth?..yes she really thought all the snakes in the world are venemous...sigh.

I once spoke to a lady around the same age as me (35), that had never heard of a python!! I still cant get my head around that!

[Sock Puppet]

I caught one do you want it?

Actually yeah I forgot about that one. Nearly always concerning local blue tongues (Easterns). Then there's the usual follow up questions (& answers) after I politely refuse.
But it might have been run over/attacked/mowed etc
> They seem to have survived in suburbia for a long time now, I think they're coping OK, let the poor thing go
But you don't have to tell the authorities you have it
> Doesn't matter, I'm not going to risk the consequences of an off-licence animal, you should probably let the poor thing go.
I haven't seen one here before, I thought it might be a pet & couldn't survive in the wild
> Nah it'll be right. I reckon you should let the poor thing go.

That kind of thing.

[euphorion]

whats a vent?
it's where the poo, among other things
wait, they poo?
*mutter*

[chondrogreen]

Question: Do you keep snakes?
Answer NO

I try to keep it pretty confidential, although everyone knows I do lol

[schizmz]

I once spoke to a lady around the same age as me (35), that had never heard of a python!! I still cant get my head around that!

And yet they can figure out how to swallow after chewing...amazing

[da_donkey]

whats it worth???

"bout 5 grand"

"5000 GRAND!!!!!!!! your an idiot!"

and

"i know where theres heaps of them, will the pet shop buy them?"

[Guest]

whats it worth???

"bout 5 grand"

"5000 GRAND!!!!!!!! your an idiot!"

and

"i know where theres heaps of them, will the pet shop buy them?"

Hahaha I get that one alot too

[jesskie]

**shows friend beardie in tank** friend says "omg how do you hold him?.. is'nt he poisonous he has spikes like that puffer fish"...

[AMY22]

I've had so many friends ask me:

"is it poisonous?"

When I respond with:

"Don't worry, I'm not planning to eat it"

They just stare blankly.

That's such a dad joke, I am SO using it next time. Usually it's the

''is it poisonous?''

''It's a python''

''yeah but is it poisonous?''

I was positive that it's common knowledge that pythons are not poisonous.

I caught one do you want it?
Do they glow? <---- yepp, been asked that...

Do you think perhaps they were thinking like with scorpions under blacklights? That's the first thing that came to my mind.

"why do you have to thaw the rats, wouldn't it be easier to feed them frozen "

You mean I've been eating my frozen dinners wrong all this time?!

That kind of reminds me of another thing, when people ask what do I feed him and I say I use frozen rats or quails, people seem to always assume I actually feed them to him FROZEN, and I'm always being 'corrected'.

Another thing that kind of dumbfounded me was when someone asked me (when I'd ran out of food for my Monty boo) if perhaps I could feed him some hard boiled eggs...

[Twoton]

A third-grader during one of the snake talks I give in Taiwanese elementary schools: "How do those little vipers get those big frogs down the gullet? Do they shove 'em in with their tails?"

That's why I give these talks

[grannieannie]

My friend asked how much I paid for "Barrie"...my Stimmie. I said...about, 450...she thought I meant $4.50.....gee that's cheap she says. NO....I said, $450.00.....OH she says !!!! But then I explained that people pay more money for dogs and cats, it made sense to her. :-)

[Snakelove]

my mate thinks that all snakes are "cobras".

[orangesnake101]

ive had people freak out when the snake flicks its tounge cause they thought that they "sting" you with their tounge... one question i've had is "can you train them to poo in 1 place?"

[ShnakeyGirl]

Not so much a question as a conversation

Me: I got my first python on the weekend and he bit me!!
Friend: How long were you in hospital for? You could have died!!
Me:...Sorry?
Friend: How much anti-venom stuff did you have to have?
Me: What? Python's aren't venomous
Friend: Yes, they are, all snakes are venomous

I then had to explain that pythons are not venomous etc

[MrHappy]

I get a lot of questions/comments from the students who visit us.
"Don't act scared because it can smell your fear and it'll bite you"
"Snakes chase you"
and the python lying beside a friend of there's 'sizing' them up to eat.
But the best one I got was from a lady at work who wanted to know if they have a brain.
My mother-in-law OFTEN asks if mine are venomous. Every time I tell her they're not and each time she follows that with, "Not at all? Not just a little bit?"