For all those reading my response to the OP...

Thanks for the comments! For those who know me here I like to add humor when I can and yes, the wife and even our 3 girls and I all try to educate and inform people whom we meet that have a difference of opinion than us besides just doing the Critter Shows, as i'm sure all of you do too. But the humor part I injected in the paragraph (see above post) also gives a smack of how frustrating I also can get when it comes down to even trying to have a logical, black and white discussion with people as to why they feel the way they do about snakes. It is interesting that when walking outside with one of our 'boys' minding our own business just letting them get some fresh air and sunshine that people have no qualms about walking by us and verbally letting us know how disgusted they are at the fact we are holding a snake and yet those very same people would throw a conniption fit if we walked by them and did the same about the dog they were walking or some other such animal.