Quote Originally Posted by Tricon7 View Post
I've seen people do this with pets like exotic birds, and people really gravitated to them, and I want to do this with my BP. I know that people have a love/hate relationship with snakes, so one has to be careful when showing them. When I worked at the Birmingham Zoo we would take out some of the larger snakes and sit out front on the railing and talk to the patrons about them. Of course, they were free to approach us or not, which worked much better than walking around and unexpectedly surprising people (sometimes with unpleasant results). But it was always a lot of fun, and we always got a lot of attention.
Yeah, that's pretty much the way my group operated as well. Grab a blanket to sit around on and people were free to come over if they felt so inclined, no encroaching on other people's personal bubble. We even brought carriers or a tub to put the snakes in if they got over stimulated.
I'm usually rather optimistic when it comes to people meeting snakes because when they have the option to either approach or steer clear and no one is getting surprised by some punk walking around a crowd with a python around their neck, others usually seemed rather intrigued with them.
A couple of summers ago, we even had a mother and her two toddlers comes over to chitchat even though they were too freaked out to actually touch the snakes, they were really interested in hearing about them.