jeserah":28p9aa4x said:
I think it turns out that men are sissies. Obviously not the guys on the forum, but all the rest!
Haa haa, my neighbor is a policeman in our town, and he is terrified of ours. I had Crash on my shoulder (21.5 inches long, and about 700 grams) and just walked over to talk to him, and he about pee'd his pants. I apologized 20 times over, I had no idea, and we really like this guy. I felt so bad! But now he watches to see if I've got a dragon on me when I pull in the driveway ... if I do, he'll steer clear until I go put it away.
We have gotten lots of strange looks going places, the best was when we went on a family walk to the library, the librarian almost fainted. Then to Walgreen's to grab something, and all the younger clerks were fascinated. The lady at our local McD's said "what is that?" thinking Crash was a toy... then he moved and she screamed. We had to stifle our giggles so they didn't spit in our fries... but then you could hear all the commotion, and by the time we got to the next window to retreive our food, there were 4-5 teenagers who wanted to see "the cool lizard thing".
I would never purposely freak someone out, but I see it as helping educate the public in a positive way -- if they want to touch or pet mine, that's cool -- I teach them how. I don't let them handle my big dragons, tho.