so this past week 3 of my snakes had perfect sheds.. one BIG 2000g+ girl and two smaller girls. needless to say.. they had perfect timing. elementary school was starting back and it just so happens my mom is a teacher.. so what do i do? throw the sheds out or use them to grow our community of herping? DUH i took them to her at school. The kids (1st grade) LOVED them.. everybody was trying to touch them and they were facinated that the one was bigger than they were. my mom and i took the opportunity while we had their atention to expose them to the world of snakes and tell them about how not all snakes are bad (and some really thought that.. thanks to their parents) but we told them they always need to let their parents know if they see one (we live in south ga in the marsh there are plenty of hots around). i went as far as telling them that ill save the sheds for the rest of the year and if they behave, at the end of the year i will give anybody interested their own snake shed. its not much but ill do whatever i can to cast a positive image on our community here rather than the stero-type public "snakes are dangerous" one. its my opinion that its hard to teach an old dog new tricks but in this case why not teach the kids and let them work on their parents for us haha
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