My very first bp came from a reptile shop near where I live, we are very frequent visitors there, and I know there animals come from local breeders if not the owners themselves. So technically I believe I did both petstore and breeder lol. Since then I have rescued 2 adults from different situations and bought 2 possible het pieds from a breeder. (crossing my fingers on those 2 in about 3 ish years )

Because I work at a chain petstore (the horror I know) I am very careful about what reptiles I buy from chains, because I am "in charge" of the reptiles in my store I would buy from there. However unless I knew who was in charge of the reptile section I would be very careful about buying from a petstore.

I did get my very first snake from my store, he was a owner surrender, and I cant stress how lucky I have been to have him.