Taking your BP out in public

[Tricon7]

Do any of you take your BP out into the park or baseball fields, etc? Just out somewhere?

[Tricon7]

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[3skulls]

Public, no.
Outside, sometimes.

[MisterKyte]

Depends on the public? When I was younger and just kept one as a pet, I would walk around with her when I was just hanging out with friends but I don't do that anymore.
I do still bring one of my snakes with me to things like city festivals and farmers markets and some other organized events though. Me and my friends started doing this after we realized people will pay a few bucks to take pictures with our critters but it's also like nice because a lot of the time people have questions about the care of our critters and it gives a chance to educate the public. (:

[xFenrir]

I recently brought my boa to my college, but I cleared it with security AND the class before I did. While there's no specific rule that says you CAN'T have your snake out in public, the general phobia of snakes can cause people to freak out unnecessarily. If you DO wanna try and do a short outing with your snake, I would choose a place that's not too crowded and where people can see the snake from a distance and give you a wide berth if they want to.

[Tricon7]

Depends on the public? When I was younger and just kept one as a pet, I would walk around with her when I was just hanging out with friends but I don't do that anymore.
I do still bring one of my snakes with me to things like city festivals and farmers markets and some other organized events though. Me and my friends started doing this after we realized people will pay a few bucks to take pictures with our critters but it's also like nice because a lot of the time people have questions about the care of our critters and it gives a chance to educate the public. (:

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.

[crepers86]

I took mine to the pet store all the time to even like petsmart and petco

[bfirecat]

I haven't taken my BP out in public yet.
I would assume that it would probably stress the snake.

Plus, although a few people might be curious, I'm sure most would be... uncomfortable (to say the least).

[Derrick]

I took my Super Lesser out and the attention he got was crazy..He is still small so unless you look for him people miss him. but people from across parking lots where coming up to me just to see him..Around me snakes dont really create any problems.

[dr del]

Hi,

I don't and probably wouldn't recommend it for the reasons bfirecat gave.


dr del