Quote Originally Posted by Jenn View Post
We will never change the opinions and fears that people have about snakes. We won't "educate" them, or "change their minds"

I think the safest thing we can do as snake keepers is to "keep" them to ourselves. My neighbors don't even know I keep snakes. Someone once asked me where all the used bedding in my mulch pile was coming from and I told them I was babysitting a friends hampster. The less your community know about your addiction the better off we will all be. Whenever I see someone out in public with a snake I am reminded that snakes have no ego.
Same here, my neighbors have no idea because I don't think they would understand. They would think that the snakes were going to escape & eat them while they slept. Sad, but true. I am slowly educating my family & co-workers about them, but this has not required that I take my snakes out in public at all. & I don't expect any of these people to go out & now get themselves a pet BP. But at least they also know that they are not 'killer' snakes.

There are things that can be done to educate some of the public (to a degree), but it does not need to endanger the animals.