Actually, I'm sorta the opposite...I hate to forcibly remove a snake from their "safe place" (hide) unless I really have to. The only boa (BCI) I've kept was
pretty amenable to being picked up, except every once in a while when I approached her (& not when she was in shed) she just didn't want to be bothered &
she'd hiss up a storm at me.But all I ever did was gently stroke her coils (not in her face!) until she gradually "remembered" that yes, she knew me & knew I
was "safe"...when she quit being hissy, I gently worked my hands underneath her & picked her up out of her cage. Never once got a bite from her, not even one,
and she originally was given to me (at one year old) because she blew thru a number of previous owners by biting vigorously, lol. With patience I showed her she
had nothing to fear. Yours doesn't sound like he's at all eager to bite, & what I find is that snakes do NOT identify us visually...they rely on other cues (scent & our
touch) to recognize us...so if you don't rush them, they accept being picked up quite well. In fact, mine actually hated to go back in her cage once she was out of
her cage with me for a while...all because she learned to feel safe with me. That's really what you want to convey...safety...when you do that, your snake becomes
"putty" in your hands.
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