Being fair about PetSmart (and buying your ball python from them)

[theartofsolitude]

okay, please dont flame me... but just wanna share my experience.

snake enthusiast in this forum will strongly discourage a newbie from buying their very first ball python from petsmart. im not saying their wrng, infact that is actually true. the petsmart where i got my ball, only got 2 supplies of bp with them.. and the other one is horrible, striking me and all the bystanders for like 20 times in 1 minute.

however, this bp that i got from them was really really really really really docile. he is about to shed now coz his eyes are both 'blueish/gray' and his skin is pale. but never had ever shown aggressiveness on me, not even ones, NEVER EVER STROKE ME!

but hey, when he smell rodents, specifically F/T ones, as how they are fed in petsmart, they change from a very silent lamb to a wild lion. though he doesnt strike everywhere, but his tongue just starts commin out like every 2 secs and moving slowly like, wth where is that scent coming from.

and then i try to hit him with the prey on his body and he will be like, "wth, i felt that! you're dead mr rodent"

then eventually put the snake in front of his head, after waking him up and pissing him for like 10 secs.. then SNAP, TAG, eats the rodent.

so after swallowing the whole thing, i'm just crazy to put my hand in there, i wanna get bit, intentially, i just wanna know how it feels, but NADA. the snake smells my hand and i'm he's like... "i know you, i wont bite ya, i'm just gonna chill here and go back in my hide, thanks for the rodent though, its tasty."

i'm just saying not all snakes from petsmart is good... maybe i just got lucky, like what i said on my previous post, there are only 2 snakes in petsmart when i bought my bp, a super aggressive one and and a super docile one, obviously i got the docile one and i'm very happy about him and is now tempting me to go hop in the petsmart on the city next to mine to probably get my second bp. goodluck!!