“...devoting house space to the “animal”, cleaning snake crap, and stinking up your house with snake smell...”
Thats not a really good argument. Generally, I find that dogs stink to high heavens. Cat litter stinks up the house and both critters tear up the furniture. Dogs leave remembrances all over the neighborhood.
As for snake owners having defective neurons, are they really any more defective than those of, say, Teddy Kennedy?
We focus on the wrong things in our society.