Quote Originally Posted by plateOfFlan View Post
When I got my second BP as a 3 month old she used to do something similar - right after handling she'd zoom around her enclosure. I was never sure if she was overheated or maybe overstimulated from handling. In any case they seem to be disoriented when they first go back in their bin, so what I do now when I put them back is (gently) direct their head right into one of the hides. Sometimes they come right back out but it seems to help them orientate - if I just plop them back in they tend to race around in confusion. I don't know how good their mental map of their enclosure is because they seem to be confused every time unless I show them the entrance right in front of their face.
Yeah I usually try to set my hand down gently right in entry way of her warm hide. She usually crawls off my hand and goes right into her hide but spends a few seconds in there before zooming around the enclosure like she's Stevie Wonder behind a piano. It's odd behavior. She's usually facing the enclosure when I put her back in it so I would think she realizes what's going on. And she almost always comes back toward the glass like she wants to come back out or something. I left the glass open once and she crawled right back out onto my arm, but I don't want to handle her too much.