Oh lawd I held a snake

My SIL has a baby snake, well I don’t know how little baby snakes are but it’s little. It’s a little boa.

I usually don’t associate with serpents. I’ve seen snakes outside and they scare the shit out of me. I have horror stories about snakes Including coming inches away and eye to eye with a water moccasin and nobody believing me. That thing was a predator and you could see it in his eyes.

I had nightmares about that beast.

She convinced me to hold him.

This guy though was nice and slow. I’ve never touched a snake before, I didn’t realize that you can see them breathe lmfao. When she put him in my hands, well he had never met me before. His little self started breathing real fast so I just held him and placed him on my belly and his breathing slowed and he “loosened” up and let me get to know him. I didn’t know that snakes felt fear or got nervous but he panicked until he knew I wasn’t a threat. I had to earn his trust just like any animal. He did that snaky snake tongue thing they do and it felt like a feather on my hand. She said that’s the way they smell their surroundings.

I did not know how squishy they were. At least boas are, boy was thicc because he just ate.

I thought I would feel fear, or get scared when I looked him in the eye but all I saw when I looked at him was a baby noodle. I think I like him. I wanna hold him again

I surprised myself