Take a room full of first graders and offer to let them hold a 10' Berm. all of them would be running to hold it. take the same kids ten years later and you couldn't get 2 of them to get with in 15 ft of the thing. Why they have been programed by parents and tv that snakes are better left in the wild because they are dangerous. More children are bitten by the family dog that " has never bitten anyone in 8 years of having her" than their pet snake. It suck that they are givven such a bad rap.