Hey guys :3

Thanks for your input, but I've already give the lecture by this point in time. It went well, a lot of students that don't like snakes or don't care about snakes told me that I persuaded them that the ban was a bad idea and that simply regulating ownership in terms of permits was better instead. We had a good long debate on what counted as domestic afterwards and quite a few of my classmates that had previously been uninterested in exotic ownership as a whole chimed in on what is actually the domestication process and what counts as a domesticated animal vs an exotic, and ways that exotics can become domesticated.

The professor was so impressed by it (he's actually anti-exotic!!) that I was invited to do a second one, ungraded, to the whole school. That one was outside, and he specifically asked that I bring Quetzal with me, so I picked a day that it was in the 80s and sunny and gave my second presentation. Might not have done a lot of good numbers-wise, but in this community education goes a long way.

The classmate previously mentioned to be terrified of snakes managed to swallow her fear and stroke Quetzal's back and tail (I'd requested everyone to stay away from his head to keep him from being startled). Not an experience she wanted to repeat, but this is a girl who wouldn't even get within 10 feet of a snake before.



I got an A+ on my essay, another A+ on the persuasion, and my prof has put a good word in with next semester's professors to try to get me into the higher level English class. I'd say it was an overall success.