its amazing that people think their snake(s) loves them. love doesnt exist, only acception and toleration. "love" is an abstract thought and action. do i "love" my wife? i accept her and tolerate her, therefore i am comfortable with her. snakes tolerate and accept us. snakes base their acceptance and tolerance on comfortability with a place or object. my big tiger retic is comfortable with accepting and tolerating anything, anybody, anytime. my albino tiger only is accepts and tolerates me. i can handle him, but he has bitten 4 other people that have tried to handle him. my yellowhead that i used to have only tolerated and accepted my wife never bit her, but bit me several times. a snake in the wild also acts this way. there was a documentary on the discovery channel i watched, that filmed a reticulated python in its natural state. it would not venture more than 4 square miles around where it was used to. and it had one tree that it always coiled by and under when resting or digesting food. it picked up something on that particular tree it accepted and tolerated, feeling comfortable with that tree. it never went to another tree or bush for security and/or comfort. obviously it went to other trees and bushes and what have you, but when it had just consumed a meal, or was shedding or just resting, it always retreated back to that same tree. it was a documentary spanning a 6 month research on this python