I decided to buy a gorgeous male Baird's rat snake from a breeder in Calgary while I'm in Ontario. It's a really nice snake and I'd love to have it but I'm feeling a little unsure.

I contacted the breeder and he said he has no problem shipping. I told him I would send the payment over for the snake but I wasn't sure how much to send for shipping and he told me to contact Reptile Express myself to get a quote. There's been a lot of back and forth with questions from the shipping place (exact size of snake, weight etc. so they can get the right packaging) and I have to keep going back and bugging the breeder for the info to pass on to the shipping people.

Wouldn't it have been so much easier for him to contact the shipping people?

I've only had a snake shipped to me once and the breeder took care of everything. She contacted Reptile Express and got the quote and then set up the shipping.

Is it normal for breeders to do this? I feel really iffy about this now =\