Firstly go to the BOI and search for "Carolina Reptile Exchange", there's a lot of rather enlightening reading to do there in various threads.

Next, let's break this down....

So I finally made it to this shop today. Every time I stop by during business hours they are never open. I heard from a friend on here how bad it was and wanted to take a looksy. These poor snakes were in terrible conditions. More than one burm to tiny tanks, bugs all over the snakes, dead scorpions sitting out of cages. It smelt so bad in the store I got sick.
There is NO excuse for conditions such as these...none...I don't care what crap he's spewing, it's unacceptable!

On the site it says he has a Doctorate in Herpetology
Who is this elusive "he" and where did he receive his "doctorate" from? I can say I have a doctorate in belly button lint if I wanted to....at least I don't keep snakes in a nasty, foul manner. Who is this "founder" (I love the wording on that site LOL).


New snake care

We are Thrilled you chose us for you newest purchase ! Please allow us to give you a few "pointers" to m,ake the transition into a new home sucsessful .

Shipping is a tramatic event, temperatures in shipping can go from extreme to extreme , from almost freezing to baking hot , your new purchase may have seen some stressful situations on its short overnight journey to you.

We recomend providing a dark and apropriatly warm enviorment, no handling or undue stress for at least 48 hours. provide clean drinking water as dehydration is a severe problem , products like "pedia-lyte" and gatoraide will be benificial if added to the drinking water. apropriate sized food should be offered within the first 4 days. This should handle most of the stresses of shipping and give your new pet a great new start in its new home.
As to this lovely piece of crapola. Where to start....

Shipping should not be "traumatic", nor should a responsible, experienced shipper of live reptiles doing so legally through an approved carrier allow your snake to be exposed to freezing or boiling temps. Neither should a snake be "severely" dehydrated coming in through overnight shipping (unless it was kept like crap before Mr. Idiot stuffed it into a dirty gym sock and mailed it to you....grrrr).

The boa we just received went into FedEx hands at about 5 p.m. in Texas and was in my hands by 10:45 a.m. the next morning. That's a 1,250 mile trip btw and that snake was packed appropriately and in perfect condition on arrival...as it should be!

Most anyone with any sense will tell you to allow a snake at least one week...that's SEVEN days not FOUR...to settle in. Pushing for a quick feeding can cause a regurge in a snake that's still sorting out the changes in it's environment. A healthy snake should have no problems with this.

Of course if you receive a half freaking frozen snake, that's been dehyrdated for awhile, has nasty bugs on it....well ya might want to listen to this idiot. Personally I'd walk...hell run from this sort of person and his "founder" with the degree in nasty snake keeping.

Gee was I rude?

P.S. Oh and, if one writes a website and has a Doctorate, one should bloody well learn how to spell!