Have you taken your BP to work or anywhere else?

I take mine to work,wal-marts,the park and all about. But I can only take my younger girl now or my young blood python. The others are busy tring to make babys or I hope.

well, my apartment is above my workplace. so all of my pets have been down there at least once. always by request. i've also taken my BP tank to a friend's house who wanted to show her hubby that they weren't all bad (he touched him! lol) and a few neighbors ended up coming over to check him out too. it ended up being a good experience all around.

I haven't brought mine to work yet. That would be very interesting though. My Boss is 80. I don't think she would be very happy with me. Her husband would be very interested though.
We recently boarded an albino Burm. He was about 12' ft. Very friendly. I took him out & my Boss' husband handle him for about a
1/2 an hour. He asked tons of questions. I work as a pet groomer at a boarding place. They were not even going to let this person board the snake. Because my BF & I have snakes they welcomed it. My daughter has taken Eddy for walks though. Only around our nieghborhood though. We live in a small town, small neighborhood. :)

I took one of my BP's to work in a snake bag because I had to leave straight from work to get her to her vet appointment. I worked at a credit union and the other people were all women ranging from 24 to 50 ish. They were all apprehensive at first but after a couple of hours of Mona in a bag in the break room they all got curious and asked me to take her out. 2 of the women held her the other 2 did not but I think they were less scared after the experience.

Mine's gone out to the park a block away from my apartment with me before. People often don't notice him at first and do a double-take when they do. I've had a good number of people come up to ask about him and tell me stories about their own snakes or friends' snakes.

He's very good around groups of people (he'll crawl all over new folk, unless the crowd starts getting larger than 6 or so), and people seem to like him. Before I adopted him from an animal rescue he was the official "spokes-snake" for their reptile program, because he does so very well with kids. I definitely had a lot of "wow, I should get a snake" reactions to him.

I've also found that women tend to be much more comfortable with him. I've only ever had guys get frightened of him. Although guys who aren't scared tend to be waaaay more into the feeding aspects of snake ownership.

Oh, and I'm certainly not the only person who takes their "exotic" pet out in public here (Berkeley). I've seen several other people with snakes, and there's one guy who regularly takes his parrot on walks.

Wow that was long. He's still new and my first. Sorry. <3

Morning all:D

Wow what a lot a great replies:O thanks:gj:

Funny how you get mixed reactions for Joe Public when they see your snake. There are always those that take a step back and those that take a step forward.

Those that I've shown Samson to generally have mini freak-out first but within 15minutes they've all had a hold or at least a feel....

We must understand that it is a inbuilt defensive mechanism to be wary of snakes, or other 'creepy crawlies'. But once people calm down they become more interested than anything else. I think that is super!:banana:

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Originally Posted by Music28

i even take mine to the gas station and wherever else theyll let me. ive been kicked out of walmart bc of the health code n stuff but most places dont care.
and the reaction people get when they realize i have a 3 and a half foot snake on my neck-priceless

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Why? That seems more like showing off and un-needed stress for the snake. :confused:

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Originally Posted by roosterman2173

I take mine to work,wal-marts,the park and all about. But I can only take my younger girl now or my young blood python. The others are busy tring to make babys or I hope.

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Again, why? The snakes certainly don't benefit from it. :confused:

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Originally Posted by Music28

i even take mine to the gas station and wherever else theyll let me. ive been kicked out of walmart bc of the health code n stuff but most places dont care.
and the reaction people get when they realize i have a 3 and a half foot snake on my neck-priceless

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Being kicked out of WalMart was a given. Why in the world would you do that? That sort of thing does the snake owning world at large no good deed and encourages a reputation that we aren't responsible and law abiding.

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Originally Posted by balls4life

I took my biggest female to the pet store who's around 4 1/2 foot, to get some supplies and frozen adult mice for my little ones.

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Just a thought here.....most pet stores I've been in, barring a few really good ones, tend to have mites and other issues with their store stock. A pet store would be about the last place I'd take one of our snakes into.

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Originally Posted by roosterman2173

I take mine to work,wal-marts,the park and all about.

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Why do you do this? I assume you are not walking around your local WalMart with a snake slung over your neck or you'd be escorted out. So is it under your shirt or in a pocket? What makes you want to drag a snake around with you like that?

I'm not trying to start anything here or be rude. I am trying to figure out however what drives some of you to put your snakes into what most of us would call inappropriate situations.

Some very solid points made there about taking your BP out in public.

In this day and age persons can generally do what they please, what is important is do they know what impact their actions have, for themselves, the public, and their BP. And do they care:confused:

Personally I would not take Samson out while I'm shopping, going to the movies or a restaurant etc, mostly where places where you do not control over environmental factors. You could actually end up in a big pile of poo if you do.

But I will take him to a controlled environment where people numbers are limited and I'll have the opportunity to tell them what is in the bag before I whip him out.

Problem doing it otherwise is that people's natural reaction will hit first, and in an environment where you do not have control people who are scared can incite the 'sheep' mentality. One freaks outs, then another, then another.... next thing you know a whole ton of people are freaked out... then trouble can start:taz:

Anyways, I don't want this thread to turn into a 'You should not do because', rather keep to the theme y'all and share experiences, positive and negative, and let us all decide for ourselves how we should conduct ourselves. Thx:please: