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View Poll Results: Does your snake love you?
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10-11-2006, 08:07 AM
#101
BPnet Veteran
Re: I think my snake loves me
Originally Posted by Cady
I voted yes my snake loves me! Even though I dont think snakes are capable of such a complex emotion as love .
you lost me there , you voted yes my snake loves me even though you dont think them capable of such a complex emotion:eek:
this thread seems to have moved from a grey area to another dimension but it does make some interesting and amusing reading
arajara , how do you know your snake "loves" her privacy ? how does she show this emotion to you ?
How do you know she "loves" you for providing that privacy or indeed allowing it in the 1st place ?
Also without trying to sound too pedantic here as I am genuinely interested in your thought process, how do come to the conclusion that snakes express their love towards places in their environment that provide warmth and safety ?
Is this not a reactive imprint ( utilising warmth and their environment ) through years upon years of development and evolution.
Primitive and instinctive behaviour I would not class as showing love IMO.
There is a moose loose aboot this hoose !
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10-20-2006, 02:36 PM
#102
Re: I think my snake loves me
Originally Posted by snakey68
pedantic
Only Peter Griffin uses that word...
Lucifer Sam, Siam cat...
Always sitting by your side,
Always by your side...
That cat's something I can't explain...
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10-27-2006, 07:48 PM
#103
Registered User
Re: I think my snake loves me
I really would like to know what leads people to believe these things. My favorite though is when people refuse to separate their snakes because "One misses the other". When I see these and other statements it makes me very angry because that is basically saying the research and time put in by breeders and those with Herp degrees is all a lie. If they say that a Ball Python is a solitary animal and being with others can cause undue stress and ill health I am inclined to believe them, I am sure that if they had any scientific proof that snakes can become "heart-broken", or "depressed" im sure it would have been published by now.
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12-02-2006, 12:37 AM
#104
Re: I think my snake loves me
Originally Posted by frankykeno
Oh let me wade in here LOL. I would say I agree mostly with Judy's thoughts on this matter and strongly disagree with some of the posts calling snakes "mindless". Typical human belief system that we are this totally superior being and anything that isn't just like us is therefore "mindless".
Snakes may not have the capacity to show love as humans do, not because they are mindless but simply because nature didn't require they do so to thrive. They are perfectly developed for their place in our world and have a brain/mind just as fully developed for that place as we do for ours.
Do my snakes love me. Not likely and not in any way I could ever perceive so that's a moot point anyways. They are reactive to me in the only way they can be. I appreciate and honor their interactions with me for what they are, not trying to read human emotion into a non-human yet fully functional and developed creature of this world.
oh ya baby!!!!
in light, Aleesha
You have 1440 minutes a day... how are you going to spend yours?
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12-29-2006, 09:57 AM
#105
Registered User
Re: I think my snake loves me
Originally Posted by frankykeno
Oh let me wade in here LOL. I would say I agree mostly with Judy's thoughts on this matter and strongly disagree with some of the posts calling snakes "mindless". Typical human belief system that we are this totally superior being and anything that isn't just like us is therefore "mindless".
Snakes may not have the capacity to show love as humans do, not because they are mindless but simply because nature didn't require they do so to thrive. They are perfectly developed for their place in our world and have a brain/mind just as fully developed for that place as we do for ours.
Do my snakes love me. Not likely and not in any way I could ever perceive so that's a moot point anyways. They are reactive to me in the only way they can be. I appreciate and honor their interactions with me for what they are, not trying to read human emotion into a non-human yet fully functional and developed creature of this world.
Preach it!!!
-Kyle
Green = 8 Ball Python
1.3 Normal Ball
1.1 Nerd Lemon Pastel & VPI Pastel
1.1 100% Het Albino and Homo Albino
1.1 100% Het Butterscotch/Yellow Hypo
0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa
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12-29-2006, 04:35 PM
#106
BPnet Veteran
The Acid Test
...dangle a thawed rodent from your mouth and insert head into snake enclosure,report back if you can "feel the love". have fun !
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12-29-2006, 04:39 PM
#107
BPnet Veteran
Re: I think my snake loves me
I have never thought my snakes love me. I do believe they recognize my scent as not being a threat and thats about it.
As far as emotions go for any reptile, I believe the are non exsistant. I do think they have some sort of intelligence though, in their own little way.
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12-29-2006, 05:21 PM
#108
BPnet Veteran
Re: I think my snake loves me
Originally Posted by Kristy
I have never thought my snakes love me. I do believe they recognize my scent as not being a threat and thats about it.
As far as emotions go for any reptile, I believe the are non exsistant. I do think they have some sort of intelligence though, in their own little way.
I agree with you on everything, but this. If snakes don't have emotions then why do they ball up or coil back when scared or mad?
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12-29-2006, 05:30 PM
#109
Registered User
Re: I think my snake loves me
I don't know if my snake loves me, but I do know he does not see me as a threat and seems more relaxed around me than with other people. So, I voted yes, as it can't really be proved or disproved.
...with all that poop I've cleaned up he'd better love me!!
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12-29-2006, 05:35 PM
#110
BPnet Veteran
Re: I think my snake loves me
Originally Posted by stangs13
I agree with you on everything, but this. If snakes don't have emotions then why do they ball up or coil back when scared or mad?
Instinct.....
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0.1 Ball Python.
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