Quote Originally Posted by Egapal View Post
The issue I have with your comments is that you presented them as facts and then when pressed to back them up you pulled way back, and now you are constructing a straw man to argue against. The fact that we are denying your claims that snakes can be conditioned against cage aggression by feeding in tubs does not in anyway mean that they don't get accustomed to being handled by humans or human interaction of any kind. What I mean by it anyway is that cage aggression is not real and feeding out of their normal enclosure will result in a greater risk of getting bit.
Both things(being handled and feeding in a separate tub) would leverage the same type of mental capacity for a conditioned behavior. For someone to say that it is completely not possible for one while the other is possible, is a contradiction. Thats my point.

Now as far as how I have backed up a little bit in this discussion and I made a "Straw man" is because it seems this subject has people who live completely on one side or the other and it is a religious crusade. I would prefer to keep things as a friendly exchange of experiences and thoughts then seem as if I am 100% trashing their thoughts and Ideas on the subject.