I am sorry for your loss but I gotta ask -- it's been 2 months since Daytona, did you contact the breeder at all to express your concerns or try to work out a way to get the snake feeding or maybe arrange for a replacement or did you just contact the breeder after the snake died? Due to the time of year a lot of fresh hatchlings are at the show but if the snake was upward of 4 weeks old it could well have been feeding regularly at the breeders facility prior to being sold. That doesn't excuse the breeders reaction -- but if you didn't contact him for two months I'm not sure what you expect him to do? And it does sound like you were accusatory in nature. I could be reading the situation wrong and if so I apologize.