Dr Del the BP is a normal and he is about 18 inches and weighs 120G. Petsmart here in Georgia is whom we bought it from and they did not mention the force feed until we already checked out and payed and they brought us his feed schedule. They had him 19 days and he did not eat so they had force fed him. I did leave him alone after trying what they said in the separate tub with no success, he did then eat. It is time again tomorrow to feed again and I did not want to cause him to fast or undo stress by moving if not needed, he also shed since last feed, started the day after he ate, but he did eat the day before so that was good I guess since reading looks like a lot of them don't.