yes, me too. but this was a child, new born baby, and not a snake really, not poisonous... i do not know how to translate its name from Russian... it was a 'fake snake'. Totally Harmless , even my 5 y.o. baby was not afraid of it - vice versa, it was so much fun to handle it, and the snake really showed us a lot of different (unknown to us) letters of Snake alphabet! The letter 'O' was quite understandable, though :)