BI acting strange

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I got him a couple days ago, on the seventeenth. I held him the other day, let him explore my room.

I haven't got a gram scale that is even big enough for him, but I know for a fact he is between 4.25ft-4.5ft in length.

Last meal he ate was last Thursday, and he eats F/T medium rats. Or at least, that is what the person whom I bought him from told me.

I've never handled him at night.

And no, he is not in shed.

He's in a 4x2x2 tub, hot side around 85-88 and the cool side is 79-80. temps fall to about 75-76 at night and his humidity is a steady 65-67%

However, now that you mention it, my dog was scratching at the tub he is in earlier, and looking back I think her presence really freaked him out. I normally do not have her in the room but she snuck passed me and I caught her sniffing around and on top of his tub. Maybe it was scaring him. When I took him out with her standing next to me, his head started to dart everywhere and instead of securing himself on my forearm like what he normally does, like he was trying to escape my grasp. I'm pretty certain it was the dog now.

He has never hissed, or struck, but it's pretty easy for me to tell when he is stressed out despite me owning him for only 4 days

This is my first boa constrictor. It's a lot different working with a snake that is so strong compared to most colubrids and ball pythons I've owned. He has to get used to me, and I have to get used to him.