Petstore rats are just as calm or vicious as the rats I breed......has nothing to do with where they come from.....it is a matter of using the gray stuff between you ears for something more than keeping your ears seperated......if 'new' people cannot use common sense and not leave a rat in the tub/cage for hours on end, then maybe they should not have purchased the snake to begin with and have LOTS bigger problems....it is all a matter of common sense, and I would agree....some people have more than others.....

Jason