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Venomous Presentation Insurance Issues
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by AnonEMouse on April 17, 2001
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Since your front page topic is public education presentations, I thought I would ask what kind of insurance do you guys carry to be able to give venomous snake presentations? I have long wondered about giving public presentations but am not interested in spending all my money to insure myself to be able to give the presentations. Just wondering.
The mouse in the house. AnonEMouse
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Anonymous post on April 17, 2001
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Call any insurance company and ask them to give you a rate. Explain what you are doing and see what they say. Personally, I don't like being laughed at and can't afford the $1,200 a month for liability insurance so "I just be real careful".
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by filthy on April 18, 2001
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Same here.
We only do an out-of-cage demo with the hots when the audience is well away from us as in an auditorium. Otherwise, they stay locked up in their display cages. Steve Irwin, I ain't.
After all the talking and Q & A is done, the kids come up to get close looks at the animals and pet a few. For this, I usually have one of my Monitors, usually a very pretty Nile. I also have handouts on local venomous for the teachers.
To tell the truth, we live in fear that the Priaire Dog or the Flying Squrriel might nip somebody, but beyond that, we're stone safe (the Monitor, whom I trust not at all, doesn't get the chance at anybody but me. She's got a nice, long neck that's easy to hang on to and her tail is under control as well).
For anyone who's doing this, here's a handy tool: I'm taking a very nice C. h. atric shed and mounting it between two pieces of plexi-glass. With this, I'll be able to show how to ID a snake from a shed, call the gender of the snake, and show anatomical features with out having to deal with the snake. I haven't finished it yet, but it should be ready for our next gig.
That's the trick: show the snake up close without actually showing the snake.
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