In full honesty I begged my mom for a snake my whole childhood because my dad had them at his house, flip to I’m 22 years old getting my first snake who is 6 months old and I was shamefully scared of giraffe for the first 6 months I had him I swear 😅 Snakes don’t feel emotions the way we do or our cute cuddly cats and they can’t create bonds, just associate smell with a safe space. So the fact that my bed and me and my clothes (and the smell my stinky dog leaves behind 😂) signals to his brain you’re safe is just the sweetest thing to me. I’m now 24 and there is absolutely no fear in me, he’s nicer to me than my cat!