Do snakes feel emotions and/or love?

[JeffJ]

To the same effect you're assuming or rationalizing that ASF and rats smell different to your snake...but do you KNOW that? We know that they show preference to some items over others but we don't know why. It is their instincts that tell them "this is food, eat it". What about snakes that used to eat rats but now will only feed on ASF, do they not remember that rats were ok to eat?

this is why i dont claim to be right, we just dont know

But, are they different enough to an animal who smells so much better than we, to make a difference?

If one is instinct, the af. rat, then what makes ol rattis domesticatis so tasty to some ball pythons? Either they're too stupid to know the difference, don't care, prefer them or something I've not thought up as yet.

My original thought was that there may not be siginfigant difference in the smell of types of rats for certain snakes. Why?

this could be entirely true. to bad none of us have the research or credentials to claim one way or another 100% we all have to agree to disagree some times