I think my snake loves me

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Originally Posted by JeffD

because they can!! They are alive, just ask them..:P

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Yeah just like my scorpions can! Just because they are alive! They love me to pieces! That little stinger and those claws are all about the LOVE! :p

I don't think snakes feel emotions. I think they can become comfortable with certain people based on mutual respect but other than that...

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Originally Posted by cassandra

*high-fives Gin!*

I have my revenge tho...Cleo peed on her Daddy *and* his favorite chair (Rick's lazyboy) last night - muwhahahhaha!

Someone seriously needs to come up with snake diapers. :sweeet:

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My true sd retic wouldn't poop for weeks but the second I'd take her out she would pinch one off on me lmao. I used to curse about it every time but since she's passed I kinda miss the clean ups.


Now as for my snakes loving me not love per say as a cat or dogshow it but my baby pastel ball lifts her head like a cat when I scratch her chin. Lizards I'm not sure but I think they are a lot more affectionate then snakes. Just my opinion :p

My snakes only love me for as long as I have a rat in my hand, and sometimes not even then.

If I may challange your free thinking minds for a moment. What do we really know about the way a snake feels or thinks? We have studies we can quote but how accurate are they? Let's imagine that the best study shows brain waves telling us that snakes have limited thought patterns in relation to specific stimuli. Okay, that's great but what if someone came up with a machine that would interpret what a snake is really thinking? Don't laugh to loudly, remember that at one time people thought the world was flat. Why did they think that? Because the information they had, at the time, supported that perception. It wasn't until a free thinking person went beyond the horizon that we learned the truth.

I believe that "FACT" can be changed as new information is presented and history shows us that even the most proovable theories are changable as with the egg. Twenty years ago we were told to only eat the white of the egg because the yoke contained harmful colesterol. Well now we know that the egg is the only complete protien in our food system and that places a different light on it all together.

Do snakes love? I don't think that question can be answered right now unless someone comes up with a way to become a snake and communicate what it's feeling. But.... The possibilities are intriguing.

My snakes don't give a crap about me, lol.

That being said, I think they have learning capabilities...though I'd lean towards that not being a result of cognition as much as impression. Not at all saying you can train a snake, but they definitely can be conditioned. I also think they can differentiate between people, based on my own personal experience.

I didn't vote because I feel both are false.

My cat loves me (sometimes), my snake does not. I don't think she loves me, nor do I think she misses me when I leave. But I don't think she without emotion or without an understanding of my existence as a neutral force in her world. I'm not a threat to her, but nor am I edible. I am a fixture of her environment, and if she is an exploratory mood, I am interesting. If she is a cranky or lazy mood, then I am annoying. Simple as that.

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Originally Posted by Emily Hubbard

I didn't vote because I feel both are false.

My cat loves me (sometimes), my snake does not. I don't think she loves me, nor do I think she misses me when I leave. But I don't think she without emotion or without an understanding of my existence as a neutral force in her world. I'm not a threat to her, but nor am I edible. I am a fixture of her environment, and if she is an exploratory mood, I am interesting. If she is a cranky or lazy mood, then I am annoying. Simple as that.

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How can you prove a cat loves? How can you prove a BP loves? how can you prove ANYTHING loves? We can quote anything we want.. In the end, it's worthless... We're not cats, dogs or even Elephants. We can say all this scientific stuff we want.. But we can't really prove it.. What we need is a mind reader for animals. :P

In my opinion, snakes do not 'love'. Love is a human emotion. We as humans tend to anthropomorphasize animals. We treat them as if they are human even though they are not.
However, Animals may exhibit affection or a similar raw behavior. Animals may have their own version of what we call 'love', but it should not be categorized in the same level as a human as they are not humans....

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I think my snakes tolerate me.