Originally Posted by David802
On your high horse again ic.....

@ Arsinoe = Because snakes lack a limbic system they are physically unable to recognize feelings like love. Your snake does not love you, nor does it like to be handled by you twice a day for an hour at a time, it is not disappointed if you don't have time for it. In all actuality it is less stressed and happier when you leave it alone, handling a snake for an hour or two a day is only going to stress it out..... In case I didn't make my underlying implication clear..... YOU ARE A BAD PET OWNER BECAUSE YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS OF YOUR ANIMAL AND ALL OF YOUR ANIMALS SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY UNTIL YOU CAN LEARN TO PROPERLY CARE FOR THEM!!!!!

... P.S. How's it feel to be treated like an inferior because of how you treat your animals?


Re:Charlie & Lucy

Guys, I think David was trying to show Arsinoe how she's making us feel about how we treat our snakes. Yes, it was harsh and bold of him to say that. But, it's harsh and down right rude the way she is talking to all of us. Some of you may say that David's reaction was rude, but I think it's to be expected from someone who is insulted, or feeling insulted, by someone else who doesn't know him and is judging him, and all of us, for the way we treat our animals.
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First of all I don't have an inferiority complex that makes me act in a manner that requires me to try to gang up on someone that they don't agree with.

You know science is not the end all be all of knowledge...How many times have they pronounced something only to recant it later. How many lives have they destroyed with their so called safe discoveries and inventions. So when you say snakes can't feel because they lack some sort of a 'system' I will take that with a grain of salt. They may have another way they 'feel' science hasn't figured out yet.

Some of you disagreed about my letting Alexander see and touch the other fur family members when I got him. You were wrong. He is the calmest snake ever invented around them now. He doesn't get defensive when one flies right in front of his face to get on a shelf. He doesn't spaz when one comes right to his face to have a look. When my oldest kitty decided out of the blue to swat him on the head, he didn't stike back or roll into a ball. He's quite fearless....In a good way.

I will maintain that given the opportunaty a snake can become more than what humans have allowed them to be.............But then the handler/owner/caretaker has to be able to feel and empathize themselves to understand other lifeforms..........If they can't.........Is that a jab...Oh Yes!