Taking your BP out in public

[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.