How many of you actually use a rabbit (or other live animal) in your show?

You know the founder of Dove Hotline has to use doves and I do. However, Over the 47 years of magic I have used ducks, rabbits, horses, geese, chickens, parakeets, dogs, gerbils, rats, gold fish, and even a turtle. I'm sure there are others that I have forgotten.

Bob Sanders
Magic By Sander

Presently I am using a rabbit, dove and chinchilla. I use to include a ferret, guinea pig and cat.

Me!

I use snakes, tarantulas/scorpions, giant millipedes, hissing cockroaches, and in the past I also used doves.

Yup. Doves, rabbits, finches and once in a while a small dog.

Just curious, what insurance coverage do you have that allows you to use the more exotic type of livestock? Ours only allows us to use the animals I listed and the audience is forbidden to touch or pet any of our livestock according to our liability policy.

When will you be using bats?

Two rabbits and two doves. Although I alternate the rabbits, so only one per show. I just wanted my first rabbit to have a friend.

What insurance did you get for the hissing cockroaches?!

"No, I'm sorry, you can't take him home."

Mine doesn't cover the snakes and things, but when I use them at schools, etc, I do not let anyone touch them unless a teacher or someone comes up one on one and ask about it.

If I ever let folks touch the snake, I do so while I'm holding it and they are only allowed to touch the tail. I have the head of the snake the entire time, just as a precaution.

The scorpion and tarantula are in containers and I don't even touch them - I just nudge them in and out with a pen when it's time to go to a show. They stay in their containers the whole time until we are back home and then I sit the open container in their cages and they crawl out whenever they feel like it. Sometimes the tarantula will sit in it for days before deciding to move!

Bats! Now that is one I have missed. Do they just hang from the wand?

Bob Sanders
Magic By Sander