Idea for educating/ promoting the hobby
I had this idea a couple of years ago and never followed up with it, after all I have a few irons in the fire you know. Here goes… We pick a date in the spring, best around the end of the school year, where as many people from all over the country contact their local schools and libraries, asking if you can bring animals and do an educational show for the kids. We call it “Snake Appreciation Day”. If we get thousands of people to all schedule an educational “programs” on that day we can not only change a lot of peoples minds about reptiles with the “hands on” approach, but this would certainly be news worthy for the major network news and major print papers.
We can start a website, have people register where and when they are doing their “talk” for Snake Awareness Day, so people can see how this movement is growing. Once we start to get impressive numbers we can reach out to the News agencies around the country and bombard them with request for stories. When the day comes we can have local news out at events across the nation. We can have every local news agency doing “local” stories about this event and blow up the national News at the same time.
We can use the momentum to not only show people that our community wants to educate the masses and get away from the satanic death metal stereotyping, but also use the opportunity to fund raise for organizations like USARK and PIJAC…
What do you say…. You want to join me on this ride???
