I took my snake to the vet and was very surpised to find out a couple of things: He's a she (which I'm not too happy about.. but i made Hisler's middle name Hersler to balance things out) and he/she knows who I am... I didn't think this was true because I read someone's post on here saying that the snake will never recognize different people. But the vet is a snake specialist and says that the snake knows people by smell and can distinguish who is who and who he feels comfortable with, does not like, etc. But this same vet also told me that the snake had a nerve disorder and when I got a second opinion from my friend's dad who is a vet for animals including snakes at Gatorland, he said that my snake doesn't have a nerve disorder, and that he's not sure that the whole thing about snakes knowing people is true... so confused lol so my question is WHO IS RIGHT? can a snake know its owner?