My 16 pound rough, tough, fighting, evil, cat is TERRIFIED of me and my mothers newly acquired (got them yesterday at the Red Deer show) snakes. Even my moms 6 week old corn snakes. It's really quite funny, last night he sat peering under the door of the room they're in, and today when we opened the door he was sitting about 3 feet from it. I gave him a little push, and he jumped, hissed, and then fled from the room with his tail between his legs. Now he's making big circles to avoid that particular door ^_^ Better than wanting to kill them... he's nearly as bad with snakes as he is with the vacuum cleaner...