When I bought my BP, I had a month before I picked him up, so I asked for the breeder to switch him from live to F/T for me. Auryn had been feeding live. When I picked him out (I had many options!), I went in person and I noticed he had two scars on his back from what must have been bites from old feedings. I know that he was being fed mice. After a year with me and several sheds, his scars are much less noticeable. The breeder I bought him from are people I respect and who are respected in the industry. They certainly know how to feed their animals--but, an injury obviously happened.

I'm not sure if it happening to my snake at the breeder's before I bought him counts as second-hand. But whatever. I chose to switch him to F/T because:
A> He will eat F/T without a problem
B> It's more convenient and cost effective for a college student with only one snake to keep F/T on hand instead of breeding/buying mice.

Over the summer when I ran out of F/T (and refuse to feed the PetCo F/T), I fed him live twice without a problem. I don't have anything against the people who do feed live. I also don't think that we should tell them that they're incompetent if an accident happened in the split second it took for their snake to grab prey wrong.

The day I picked Auryn out, we snapped some pictures. His scales are shiny, so the scars are a little harder to see. There was one very obvious one, and another smaller one a little farther up. Up close, they look like little puckers in his skin. But, as I said, they're better now. These photos were from a year ago





The scars are to the right of the big blushing spot (I call it his "vampire bite )--the less noticeable one is first, and then in the next little spot on his back is the more noticeable one.