Rescuing a ball python from a chain store?

[Eric Alan]

And TGR gets a lot of their stock from a guy named Bill (seriously), who's operation is located about 7 miles from where I'm standing right now.

Please tell me you didn't just yada yada Bill Brant. That's like saying you live in Redmond, WA and there's a guy named Bill whose computer store is just down the road from you.

Trust me when I say that the Big Box doesn't care where they come from, and will always be happy to tell you their animals are high quality and locally produced.

When someone starts a sentence with, "Trust me when I say...", it usually means, "I am not about to change my opinion, so you should blindly get on board with it too." If you, as a business owner, or the people working for you, don't care about having quality product, you don't get to the point of having a successful business in the first place. This is especially true in the pet industry when that product more often than not becomes a member of your customer's family.