Trip to school?

I took Sixx to Hunters 1st grade class, and ended up making a trip to all of the 1st grade. They LOVED him. They had did a little "reptile" research and asked all kinds of questions. Ofcourse, Hunter considers himself an expert. I didn't let them hold him or touch him....didn't want ANY problems with parents, or upset children....and certainly not a stressed out Sixx. I graduated with one of the teachers, and she said that she will probably call me to come back next school year.

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Some Kind Of Robot(This is the very first one, scroll down to the very bottom, this is where I got my sig from)
Spring Cleaning
Guitar
Techno
Comic
Japanese Cartoon
Dragon
kids' book
Caffeine
Video Games
Car

A new one comes out about every week or so.

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Originally Posted by rding

I didn't let them hold him or touch him....didn't want ANY problems with parents, or upset children....and certainly not a stressed out Sixx.

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They've done plenty of touching and holding various animals all year, so this was nothing new for us. A scuba diver who brought us ocean life one day brought a baby horn shark for them to touch/pet. Anyway, I definitely didn't not want to pass Norbert around, but I really wanted them to touch and feel him. So many people think snakes are slimy, I wanted them to see what a snake really feels like.

I understand, but since i was/am still kinda new, we have almost had Sixx one year, about 6 months at the time, i just didn't want to have to worry about anything.........maybe next year they can touch.......i agree with seeing what they feel like, though. people that touch Sixx can't believe that he is not a slimy snake.

I'll agree with that. I did something like that on a much smaller scale, I had all the neighborhood kids come over and see Icculus (after asking their parents) and had them each sit down in a circle indian style and I let them touch him first while I held him and a couple of them commented on how he wasn't slimy at all. Then I told them to stick out their arm like a branch and I just kind of laid Icc over it and let them feel him move for about 30 secs or so and then put him on the next kids arm. I was there the whole time (in the middle of the circle) monitoring and I had already given a speech about not trying to grab the head and the importance of washing hands before and after ever handling a snake. They were thrilled. :)