I don't really know of any dangerous chemicals floating in the air at my store. If he was climbing on stuff sure. But from me holding him I don't see how he's going to pick up anything. The people that held him were my coworkers because I wasn't going to hand him off to people I don't know. I'm kinda surprised about how big a deal this was made into. Seems to be any snake sighting is bad publicity? I'm with some of the previous posters where I don't see why would should have to cater to the phobias of others. Now if I was shoving it upon them, that's wrong of me. The main point of me bringing him in to work was to show my coworkers and no I'm not going to have all of them at my house. I also wouldn't take him into any other store. I wouldn't really bother to take him to the park unless it was for photos or something. I don't care about the "look at me I have a snake". I just wish people had more opportunities to see they aren't scary.
I understand being weary of them if someone has never been around them. I've never been a reptile person, and was even weirded out by snakes. The first time I ever touched a snake was when I took Allure out of his shipping box. Even then I sat staring at him for a minute or two working myself up to pick him up. For some reason getting a ball python just kept popping into my head after a post on another non reptile forum. So I did my research and got one. I respect people's fear and their right to not like my pet. That's fine. I just wish people would be OPEN to non traditional pets, or at least the non fluffy variety.
I don't fault people for fearing snakes, I fault them for being closed minded. Seems to me that if we have to keep our hobby behind closed doors that's promoting the idea that they SHOULD be kept away from people. I don't know. I guess we'll just agree to disagree. I posted just to kinda share my surprisement at how silly some people can be, but also to share how interested some people were. My coworkers were still asking about ball pythons today, even the ones that were scared of him. So seems like I opened up a few people to it, or at least got some knowledge into them about them.
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