Not to mention that he's bringing this snake ONSTAGE, where no doubt the lights, sound and possible smoke could really harm him.
(This is probably riding on the too-much-information line, BUT....) I used to work as an exotic dancer, and often other girls asked me why I didn't bring in the snakes if I liked them so much. TV working as an influence again, they'd seen people like Alice Cooper bring animals onstage and figured hey, why not do it at the club? But I simply cannot imagine bringing my animals into such an environment, and most of all not onstage. It's dangerous and amazingly stressful (plus I'd probably get fired if one of the babies wanted to "snuggle" a customer. )
But yeah, it irks me so to see people bringing their herps onstage, even a documented animal lover like Cooper.