Well since you chose to put cats into this subject I thought I'd throw you my opinion. By the way I am the owner of 1.0 Candy Cane, 0.1 Okeetee, 1.0 Snow as well as two calico cats and a grey, brown, and peachish cat. Cat mouths and claws contain more heinious things then any corn snake. Corns are also very quite and mellow where my cats are very noise and trouble making. Anyone can own a cat, but a snake is something special. It also becomes more then just ownership, but an education. I have gain more knowledge from snake ownership then cat ownership. Maybe I am just not a cat person.