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\u201cThe big thing is we want them (participants) to have an appreciation of snakes and to know they\u2019re not to be afraid of,\u201d Barrick said. \u201cThey take care of rodents and mice and things we don\u2019t want running around our yards or houses, so they\u2019re really useful for the environment.\u201d
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Barrick said in general, snakes are very nice and harmless to people and pets. Rattlesnakes are one exception, but he said that even with Rattlesnakes, the goal isn\u2019t to have people hate them or be afraid of them, but just leave them alone.
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\u201cThe more you know about something, the more you understand something, the harder it is to hate them,\u201d Barrick said.
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Tabora agreed that snakes tend to have a bad reputation and that education is important in changing that perception.
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\u201cPeople deserve to see snakes that aren\u2019t in terrifying movies or situations,\u201d Tabora said. \u201cSnakes are awesome.\u201d
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The library plans on partnering with the museum for other events which can be found on the library website<\/a> or on their Facebook page<\/a>. \u201cWe appreciate the library because at the museum, we do get lots of people that come in, but with events like these we get the chance to see a lot more people and get out into the community,\u201d Barrick said. BY ALICIA FEYERHERM Over 250 children and parents attended Hays Public Library\u2019s Snake Day on Saturday. \u201c\u200b\u200bSnakes are great and fantastic,\u201d HPL Youth Public Services… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":66242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,11,3403],"tags":[14480,3126,14679,14680,451],"class_list":["post-66240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-news","category-news","category-sternberg-news","tag-alicia-feyerherm","tag-hays-public-library","tag-snake-day","tag-snakes","tag-sternberg-museum-of-natural-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_9479.jpg?fit=6000%2C4000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66248,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66240\/revisions\/66248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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