Op, I think it's worth mentioning there have been incidents of loving owners literally loving their snake to death because they insisted on treating their ball python like a person and projecting mammal characteristics to them.
I'm afraid you are getting close to doing the same thing if you continue to do what you do. You have to start seeing Crowley for what he actually is, not through the shades of what you want him to be.
Just went thru and read that story..... Wth?? That poor snake...... That was all kinds of messed up stuff there!