"..Because the vast bulk of serpents are not venomous, even fewer are poisonous, and most are constrictors. Or completely harmless." He's totally going to get off and go looking, that there are much larger and plenty more dangerous ones will just have to be found the hard way. "Do you have a phobia?"

That might.. MIGHT .. incline him to allow a pass at least to Popp, but he's still going to go sooner or later.