My experience has been when the snake is behaving as if it wants to get out and join the fun it is telling me something. Not trying to communicate with me, but 1) recognizing, I am the one that brings the food. It is hungry. 2) Recognizes I am the one that has the ability to open the cage and allow it to get out because a) the cage is filthy, b) it is thirsty, c) something is irritating it that it wishes to escape from (mites for example).

If the snake is confined and something it requires is not available, it will try to escape to find that something (food, water, shelter, environment).

If the snake is confined and subjected to an unpleasant physiological environmental situation it will try to escape that condition for a better location. It may recognize its keeper as the one that can facilitate that change in circumstance, but that is the extent of the bond.

jsc
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