C your worried more about my name or your name, who cares. I know I am weird, but if I met you, I would not forget your face and YOU. That is what is important to me. But all these letters(names) on the interent, do not mean too much to me. After all, are they the real people behind them? Sometimes yes, and sometimes no. But once I look into your eyes and touch you(shake your hand) I will know YOU. Not a bunch of letters.



You see, your name is not you either. You are you. Its almost the same as with the snakes, it does not matter what we call them, we are constantly changing their scientific names, the actual snake is still the snake it was before and after the name change. The name is meaningless to the snake.



There are people on here I know, I will start with the one I known the longest. Pastor Pat, I knew him since the sixties. There is something about that man, We hit it off and without doubt or question. If you look at us, it would not seem like we would. But we did, his feelings were honest and pure, we became friends without much in the way of talk. After not seeing him for decades, when I talk to him here, I still feel that same person. Then there is Forky, I met him in the seventies, hmmmmmm same thing, there was no need for words, we felt eachothers hearts and minds. Friends for life. We do not have to agree or be anything alike.



So I ask you, feel your animals heart and mind, feel it. I "feel" thats what your trying to do. Forget about the words, forget about science. Feel your captive. Learn about what it really is. Offer it things that are for it and not for YOU. Then your snakes will start to talk to you(how it uses those things), then you can listen. And yes, its all explainable with science. Well, at least with some science, as there are those in science that do not give credit to animals. They think they are a bunch of genes with no ability other then to react to instint.



No I do not think snakes are human, but they do have abilities, and instints and they can and do learn. Heck, your snakes are trying to LEARN how to live in your(our) cages and your(our) cages are nothing like nature, where their instints were honed. Cheers

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