Well the good news is that pain seems unlikely, especially in a BP as well-cared for as yours anyway. But snakes have various ways of telling us to bug off and I
think his twitching might be telling you that he's had enough of whatever you're doing. Some snakes, like bull or gopher snakes, are really good at actually shoving
with their mid-body & this is used at various times: a wild snake may not bother to try to bite you, especially if you approach gently from their mid-body (since head
& tail approaches trigger a more immediate alarm response) but instead will shove you aside. The same snake uses this technique in burrows to trap & kill entire
families of rodents before they can escape, so this muscle control serves a dual purpose anyway.
But I think this is something else...how can I put this? I think he's trying to tell you that your attention is a little too much. I must preface this by saying that while
I've bred various snakes, I've not bred BPs, but either way, when snakes get together, a good many of them do some body rubbing, with the male sliding over the
female to interest her in cooperating. If for any reason a snake isn't interested, they say so by moving quickly away or by shoving off the other's actions. Now you
have Crowley for a "pet" but he doesn't quite understand that: your petting & attention might be stimulating him in a mating sort of way, but at the same time, you
aren't his type & he's trying to tell you that, ahem...I think he's trying to find a mate on these "missions" & you keep turning up, trying to "lead him astray"?
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