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ReneeValois
at Wed Sep 3 21:15:14 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ReneeValois ]
This is what I've been doing on Sundays since the middle of August...bringing my snakes to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival to educate people and help them get over their fear of snakes. I look as tired as I felt last Sunday (didn't get a lot of sleep the night before). Visitors kept telling me that my hair under my black snood (a black net hat) matched my snake's color and black markings. I always wear snake jewelry out there too---in this case, a carved stone snake pendant and earrings---and people get a kick out of that.
My lovely daughter Victoria came with me and is holding one of my corn snakes, Dageurre, in front of Como Cottage, the Ren Fest home base of the Minnesota Herpetological Society. We always have Smiley the alligator, various turtles and tortoises, reptiles and snakes behind our fenced-in yard (with a separate alligator pond). We invite visitors to come up to the fence or tables where we sit and gently touch the animals and talk to us.
Sunday was the very first time I brought Loki out there (I thought he was too young last year). He did great, although by the end of his second shift he was trying to hide his head under his coils. The corn snakes are old pros and don't get intimidated that easily.
It was cloudy a lot (as you can see in the photos) but when the sun came out, I showed visitors how BRBs got their "rainbow" moniker by turning Loki in all directions so they could see the famous iridescence. Lots of people (especially women) said "I want one of those snakes!" Loki makes a good rainbow boa ambassador! 
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Renee
1.0 BRB (Loki)
2.0 amel & anery corns (Foxfire & Daguerre)
0.1 blood python (Duchess, arriving later this month)
1.1 Cats (Nightshade & Cuzzy)
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 What I did on my summer vacation... - ReneeValois, Wed Sep 3 21:15:14 2008 
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