The yellow rat snake that may enjoy some human contact.

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by possum

Don't need to...this is a forum, remember? And last I checked, you don't own it? Why are you SO afraid of new ideas & other's opinions and experience? You "circle the wagons" every time with childish personal attacks like this is WWIII.

I will add though, that it's much easier to treat animals (any kind) like an unthinking commodity and keep them in minimal conditions (think puppy mill?) for their lifespan and for your amusement and maybe profit if you can remain convinced (and perhaps convince others?) that it has has no real brain or "feelings"...so the more you rant at me, the more I wonder how humanely you keep things.

I'm afraid of stupidity. It's contagious and I don't want newcomers to catch it from you. Your right, it is easier to treat them like unthinking commodities and in minimal conditions, so which member does that? You think the only reason people like me, aaron, whoever else thinks they don't like us, keeps them for profit? What do you keep your animals for? Because they love you and you don't want to break their hearts? Or to observe them for your own amusement? Or do you breed them to repopulate the population and save planet earth? I didn't say it has no real brain or feelings, I said it doesn't have what you think it has, because you seem to have never opened a book and read anything on the matter.

I'm afraid of people who say the snake enjoy's his contact (around his neck) and uses it as a proof that they enjoy his company, and at the end discredits himself saying he probably smelled a female and was just confused.

Oh, your friend is a scientist so YOU must understand the physiology of all things reptile? And again with the " kept snakes for many years " thing.....

Enlighten me with your specifics please, not from your own mouth, but scientific facts. We are all aware that scientists get things wrong, but its not any reason to lose your marbles and think of any theory that comes to mind without understanding anything and having no foundation in the knowledge required to come up with those theories .