Up until last night, I had really been the only one to handle Alice since I brought her home. I let my son handle her once and she rattled her tail while he was holding her. It scared him so much he almost dropped her. I only have two or three days a week that I can handler her and as a result it has taken longer to calm her down. I will still get an occasional tail rattle when I get her out of hiding to pick her up, however she has never tried to bite. They all have their own demeanor, and hers is “bitchy”.
Last night was a nice breakthrough though. I got Alice out to handle her a little while. I recieved a little tail rattle before I picker her up. In her defense, one of my hands was above her and that likely caused the reaction. Anyway, once I picked her up, I went into the room where my wife and her daughter were playing games. They both wanted to try to handle Alice.
She rattled her tail once when my wife started to rub her side. After that she did fine. They could stroke her body and she did not even twitch or pull away. After a while both of them had a chance to hold her while she crawled through their fingers and up their arms. I hope to see her tame down enough that anyone can remove her from her habitat without any kind of defensive display.