I got snapped at the other day as well. I was feeding my bp and I placed her in the large shoebox that she eats in, which now reeks of mouse smell. She knows its food time as soon as she hits the floor. I was about 5 feet away, and she just must have been smelling mice and seeing movement, and she just snapped at the empty air in between us. It startled me for just a split second, I thought it was kind of funny and was happy that my hand wasn't close to the box. End of story, placed the mouse in the box, and she took her usual .00068 seconds to strike at it.