They don't really bond on an emotional level and aren't capable of it. It's not so much that they don't show emotion as that they cannot feel emotions. They're very base instinct.
Happy, angry, scared, hungry. That's her emotional range.
Since they have two real categories of other animals: those they want to eat, and those that will eat them, the fact that snek recognizes me as neither is all the bonding that will ever happen.
I've never understood reptilian pets.
They don't really show emotion do they?
Can you bond with a snake?