I have been to about 20 different pet stores to look at BP's and have narrowed them down to two different stores. The first store keeps them in a descently clean cage and they seemed to be healthy normal snakes. I picked one of them up and it didn't exatly curl itself around my hand but it wasn't limp either. It did flick its tongue when we held it and it seemed to be alert to its surroundings. The woman at the store said that two were feeding on their own, three needed help being fed, and two had to be force fed and she feeds them F/T fuzzies.
The second shop had a very clean cage no odor or anything, very healthy looking BP's and dealt mostly with snakes. The only thing was that she would not let us hold them unless we were going to buy them. She said that because they were so young she didn't like people holding them because it puts too much stress on them. She feeds them live fuzzies and they feed on their own with no assistance.
I was just wondering what sounds like a better buy the BP's from store one or the BP's from store two? If it would be better to buy from store one because they are used to being handled or buy from store two where only the seller got to hold them. Any input would be greatly appreciated.