I agree with You. I do.disagree with one thing. Our petsmart uses snakes from local breeders, and the person who tends to them was a retic and Burmese breeder in Flordia, Maybe we got the lucky shop, lol. But I understand completely our local pet shop is horrible. The snake we bought local Is doing worse then the pertsmart snake which is extremely healthy and very docile. Please don't gut me alive, I understand this and know that animals shouldn't be treated like this, I also agree It should stop. Very good post none the less. And I would shar e more about my personal experience, but it's more important the way most people treat them, to the one jewel in local pet trading.