princess;3475829; said:I have a chameleon in my bedroom along with it's food supply, crickets and flies lol sometimes they escapehahhahaha my bf HATES it, and he hates snakes makes me want to get one even more!!!
That sounds like my room, except I have a rather large gecko. I actually am finding it harder to get to sleep without the sound of crickets while at college.
My suggestion, Jason, is to go to a herp convention or club. You'll probably have more luck finding someone at the conventions, but you never know.
I'm in the same boat as well, but without the snakes. I don't understand how people can be creeped out by a 12" long gecko that's bright green and red, especially with those cute little faces.
I have plenty of friends who are terrified of snakes. What I do is slowly introduce them to snakes by first showing them pictures and tell them to admire the patterns and colors and ignore the body shape, since that's usually what they don't like. Then you slowly acclimate them to being around snakes by having a small garter snake on the other side of a room. Each day you bring it closer until they can hold it and stay perfectly calm. It's all psychology.
