Lots of people buy CH babies and do just fine with them. But you do need to go in with eyes open if you're considering doing that. If you buy them from a reputable breeder, you can mitigate a lot of those risks because the breeders will usually take care of the parasite issues and make sure it's feeding well before ever selling it. If you walk into a pet-store and buy one...you can almost count on having mites and internal parasites to deal with, as well as unknowns about feeding history, etc.