My friend recently joined the Navy, and could not take his yearling female bci. She is beautiful and I was with him at the NC Reptile show. So I have her now. She is not my only boa, but she is the only one of my snakes that bites. She has never bitten me, but constantly strikes at me. I have been taking her out daily and holding her to try and accustom her to me. She is still just hateful. I know that when they are young they can just have an attitude. My main question is how many of you have adults that are still like this? She is handleable now, I'm mainly concerned about having a 10 foot mean boa that is hard to handle. Is there anything else I can do? She is in her own cage which is about 2'x 1' (she is still small, maybe 3 ft long) it is heated by heat tape (controlled) and is at about 89 degrees. She is still on mice, but I am switching her to rats next week. Thanks for any comments and suggestions.
Kirby
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Does she have a hide spot? sometimes that works
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Adrian De Leon
Hissenia Reptiles
yes
Only advice I can give is to keep working with her and act fearless when doing it. DO NOT put her away if (OK, when) she bites you.
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
20.28 BRB
13.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats 
If shes handle-able then i would say definitly keep handling her gently and try not to piss her off. The more you handle her without her getting aggiated the faster she'll calm down. My TJ pastel was real mean, but once being handled out of the cage for about an hour he calmed right down. Hes still definsive in his cage but once he he seems to enjoy it.
