Her skin MIGHT actually tear if you handle her with any force...snakes that are chronically-starved have very weak skin because they didn't have the nutrition
to make & maintain their skin, so do handle her very gently. I once rescued a starved adult boa (a beautiful Argentine of all things!) whose skin tore in multiple
places when the owners removed her from their cage to bag her & drop her off to me. (I had wanted to be the one to handle her removal but they jumped the
gun, not knowing my reason for wanting to do that myself. I had made a house-call in response to their call for help & planned to return the next day, when
I had a cage set up for her to move into, and food with me to tempt her off her branches with...but they didn't wait OR listen.The skin on that boa would
never be normal, and the same may be true of this BP, I'm sorry to say.
Her skin is super-thin...it appears the shed came off the back-top of her head, but that she retained the rest, at least as far as I can see. I think she'd be better
off with a warm AND humid hide, because misting doesn't hang around long enough to actually help much.do agree with you that she needs "peace & quiet".
Water & food are critical for her...and you may be right that this isn't stuck shed, but that's how it looks in photos, you're in a better position to tell than we are
online. (so refresh my memory, you actually got pieces of shed OFF her when you first got her home?)
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