Snakes have a sad life in a tank...

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They attribute all kinds of motives and thought processes to them that snakes just aren't capable of.

I completely agree. I try to explain to people that a snake doesn't have the cognitive ability to feel sad about the fact that it is confined to a tank or tub. They don't think like us.

However many will argue, "How do you know that they lack the ability to feel emotion?"

No, the truth is I can't say for sure that they can't feel emotions; however I do know that scientists have studied their brains and found that they do not have the section that deals with emotions (that humans have). So...