Hmmm... you state that they have the ability to feel as fact while having no evidence what-so-ever to back it up. What is so hard about not making claims without the evidence to support it? You can believe something all you want, but belief alone won't make it so.
Case in point: I believe that there is a small porcelain teapot orbiting the sun in between Mars and Jupiter. What's that, you say that it's impossible but that you can't disprove it because a teapot is too small and the area too great to search? Well, I believe it and you can't disprove it so it is there.
That sounds ridiculous, right? Here's how real science works - someone that makes a claim, outlandish or otherwise, and then they bear the responsiblity to provide evidence to support it. It is not the responsibility of the rest of the scientific community to refute the claim. If you want to claim that snakes or any other reptiles have feelings, or even the ability to feel, then it is your responsibility to provide the evidence, not mine.
Dictionary.Reference.com defines delusion as: "a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact." In my opinion, believing that your snakes can love you is delusional. I used to say that multiple people sharing a delusion was called religion, but apparently it applies to 48% of ball python owners as well! LOL :headslap:
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