Improving Public Perception of Keeping Snakes

[bcr229]

So, this thread was started to help come up with ideas as to how we can band together and help bring down the misconception that snakes are horribly dangerous pets to keep, simply because its a snake. Now we are discussing as to whether there should be regulations or not and if so what types of regulations......seems we kinda went off-topic here people.

As for ideas as to how we can help to bring down the "every snake is bad" stimuli, I would think that using social media would be a good start as someone had mentioned before. People spend more time on facebook and twitter now than they do actually watching the news. So why not make some memes using different species in the pictures and putting in something about a misconception with said species and what the truth is. It may also be possible to have it so that each meme is linked to some website, say this one for example, that has a massive quantity of knowledge on these animals and many experienced keepers/breeders that people can ask questions about them.

Informing the masses about the reality of keeping these beautiful animals would be, in my opinion, step one to debunking a lot of the myth's that surround them.

THANK YOU!!! If you want to debate regulations go start your own thread. I want to focus on tactics individual snake-keepers can use since people with no exposure to snakes don't know the difference between a ball python and a Burmese python.