to take my snake to sunbathe in the local park?

[cakeorwine]

You can take dogs in the park.
So why not a pet snake!

Is it OK to let your snakes sunbathe in the park? - BBC News

(I don't have a snake and am not sure what I would think if I saw a snake in the park)

It’s a park near me, I’d prefer a snake over some of the local population anyday.

I mean, you can I guess?... I'd be very surprised if they listen! 😄

Or Ferrets hanging around park benches waiting for someone to sit down so they can run up their trouser leg!

That could be the new ASBO/Dispersal Order for parks 🤔😂

I've had this conversation so many times! If I rocked up somewhere with my cats then everyone would think I was a weird but dog owners take their pets everywhere.

Let the snake sunbathe! If other people are afraid then can go elsewhere. Just like someone with a dog phobia can go somewhere that isn't dog friendly.

If you see someone with their pet reptile in the park you should move aside and let the Snake Pass...........

I walk my dog at this park every day and this guy gives me the major creeps. He looks like a sex offender and sits his snakes right at the car park, where everyone has to walk by and clearly does it for attention. He loves showing the children his snakes and it creeps me out!

Another one with a snake phobia here. I can’t look at photos, can’t go in the reptile house etc. When a pet snake was reported as escaped in my neighbourhood I couldn’t sleep. If this was my local park I would stop going completely, and probably wouldn’t return because I’d be scared one would have escaped - he doesn’t seem to have them under the best control from the article I read.

Nope. Absolutely bloody not. I'd probably cry and pass out.

Those types of snakes are not wild animals here (thankfully) so no he shouldn't be taking them
to the park.

I wouldn't want anyone to even come near me with a snake let alone the thing slithering around on the grass. No thanks.

You’re being quite silly……..clearly you’d use a harness instead of a collar and lead 😉😂

You’re being quite silly……..clearly you’d use a harness instead of a collar and lead 😉😂

If the amount of harnesses I've gone through with the dog trying to find the perfect fitting one. Dread to think how many harnesses would be tried on for a snake

You know what shape they are, right?. I do, but surely someone could invent and patent a snake-lead. It’s the sort of thing you might see on Dragons Den. I mean no one would invest as there’s probably not sell more than 2, but even so, I bet it’s possible.

surely this isn’t real 😂😂😂

😂😂😂

I was wondering how you’d harness a snake!

Maybe you could make a harness out of that stuff you make window crawlers out of so it would sort of stick the the snake without hurting it.

Dragon's Den here I come.

Here we go - snake on a lead

Yeah that wouldn't work. You should see the spaces snakes can sneak though. After a really big meal it might

MrsTerryPratchett. So you could maybe put its lead on after a big dinner and head off to the park. And it would probably have loads of energy after a hearty meal and be really up for a nice hike.

There was a guy who lived somewhere nearby us with a giant yellow python, used to see him regularly walking about with the snake round his neck - was never sure where he was going with it! Spoke to him a few times, the first because it caught me by surprise, I’d just not seen him before with the giant snake (and she really was enormous!! the snake was called tiny, he let me stroke her, she was very cool)
anyway, was on the local news that he’d died from asphyxiation 😱 was maybe about 5 years ago now and I often think about him, he said he had loads of exotics but that this snake loved getting out and about.
I guess giant yellow pythons are a bit easier to keep track of in a park than small ones but he said she could get a speed up!

This! And anyone who doesn't like it (eg due to having been bitten by out of control snakes out in public previously) can simply avoid the park or "get some therapy to deal with their problem". Sounds fair to me.

A guy used to walk around our local area with his snake around his arm, often saw it in the shop!

As long as it's a pretty chill snake, likes being carried and it's hot I can't see why not. I wouldn't put it down anywhere, but it could hang out over your shoulders in the sun for a bit 🤷

I'm terrified of snakes. I'd freak if I saw a snake in the park. Lots of people are afraid of snakes so I think you are being irresponsible.

I wouldn't mind a constricting snake being in the park because there'd be plenty of people to pull it off it it started to make a meal of me. I'd object to a venomous snake (where the venom was likely to have life-changing or fatal effects) because it could strike unexpectedly. Ultimately, snakes overall are less dangerous than humans.

can you just confirm an actually snake not a trouser snake, right?

because I have objections to both

My friend had a snake and used to take the snake out, my friend would have it round his neck. He actually got approached by the police once. Ridiculous! But the snake was harmless - I’d rather face a snake than a jumpy annoying dog.

You could say the same about dog owners and dogs