Quote Originally Posted by Greekinese View Post
Do you feed her inside her enclosure? Do you have to sometimes have to leave the food for her and let her come out & get it on her own time or does she come out to eat?

I have the same "problem". My snake is so comfortable in his hide that he doesn't even come out. When I want to socialize with him and get him used to being handled, he's even more anti-social than before because you're disturbing his hide to get him out to play.

I want to have a snake that is comfortable being held and non-jumpy around people, but it's almost like providing these hides is working against taming him out.
Isn't your snake still fairly young? If so, this behavior is completely normal. You are a predator to them. It is only natural for them to be scared when you are handling them.

Eventually they will calm down and be much more relaxed. Denying them hides is not going to help "tame" them. If anything, it would make it worse.

I have all my Bps in a rack system and very few of them get hides. Maybe a piece of paper to hide under. They are hiding 90% of the time, the other 10% being at night or around feeding time.