That part about local availability of live feeders is really important (good call, Cheesenugget!). We have a forum member here that got a neonate snake (not a BP)
that had only been fed twice (seller said) before he got it home, & prior to getting this snake, he had asked the one local pet store about live feeders being sold there.
Some mix-up of information with staff took place & now he has a snake that wants live (won't eat f/t yet) and no live feeders of the right size & kind are available any-
where near him. This is truly something you want to avoid...so if you get a snake that needs live feeders (until such time as you can talk it into eating f/t), it's safer to
have more than one local source, just in case one goes out of business or something.