Whats the deal with giving your snakes names?

[kimbosaur]

People have definitely named weirder things than snakes on this planet.

[EasternGirl]

yeah...we name hurricanes...what's up with that?

[kibakiba]

Hurricanes can be pets too! How dare you say anything against those who love their wittle hurricanes!

[gregmonsta]

My car is called accapella ...

[Stefan-A]

My car is called accapella ...

Mine is called Wife. It uses up all my money and drives me nuts.

[guidofatherof5]

Mine is Das Boot.

[chris-uk]

We name our snakes because they are pets, and pets have names. Without naming them if I wanted to talk to the wife about one of them it would be a case of referring to "the female Cuitzeo", as opposed to just "Lacci", or "the female albino checkered" as opposed to just "Binky". It's a shorthand, but it's also an emotional attachment to our pets.
I know that other people who collect lots of snakes don't name them all, but the wife and I agreed that we'd not get so many that we couldn't treat them as individuals, so they all get names.

All our snakes are named after characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

[Didymus20X6]

Naming is something we human beings do. There is significance to it. It's a way of saying, "This is mine!", both to ourselves and to others, and, in a way, to the very thing we have just named. It both creates an emotional attachment and is an extension of that emotional attachment.

[EasternGirl]

I had a car that I called Renfield because it seemed to eat bugs...bugs would go into the car and never come back out. My son names everything "Bob". He has numerous stuffed animals named Bob, and he had a fish named Bob, and he told me he wants to name all of his children Bob. If it were up to him...I would have four snakes named Bob.

[infernalis]

yeah...we name hurricanes...what's up with that?

Scotland got hit with one called "Bawbag" (Look it up)