By the way, a person changing their shirt looks much like a bird of prey swooping in for a snake-kill from across the room & to a little fearful snake. Patience.
Another thing that may help your snake learn that it's safe when handled is to put a small towel or cloth over it, so it's focused on your scent & touch only,
without being so afraid of what it's seeing. I once took in a yearling BCI that had changed homes repeatedly before being given to me...because she bit
everyone & as often as she could. She was just so terrified, NOT some "evil creature from the underworld" as she was called, & after about a month or so
of my handling her under a hand towel, I started letting her peek out. By then, she "knew" my touch & scent was safe...& it wasn't long before she caught
on that I wasn't as bad as she feared, lol. When I first got her, she wanted nothing more than to bite me & fill me with holes, but by the time I calmed her
down, it barely occurred to her when she was finally unveiled, & after a few times, she stopped worrying about me "eating her". Never had even ONE bite,
not in all the years she was mine...she became reliably cuddly. You can do this too-
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