New Boa Regurg/Vomit

[XSPWR]

Originally Posted by Andy_G

The fact that the seller would feed the day before or day of shipping is absolutely disgusting and I hope in the very least that you discuss this with them. That kind of practice is BOI worthy in my opinion, and a very bad practice with questionable ethics unless whoever sold the animal was completely oblivious and BRAND new to keeping snakes.

She came from a very large and popular online reptile seller. When I contacted them about the regurg, their only response was 'that's unfortunate' and 'we feed on fridays,' but the snake arrived on friday... So not sure how that works out... I also asked about her DoB and whatnot, but were unable to provide me with this information either, 'we got her from a local breeder, so we don't have any information on her.'

[MartinD]

Originally Posted by XSPWR

She came from a very large and popular online reptile seller. When I contacted them about the regurg, their only response was 'that's unfortunate' and 'we feed on fridays,' but the snake arrived on friday... So not sure how that works out... I also asked about her DoB and whatnot, but were unable to provide me with this information either, 'we got her from a local breeder, so we don't have any information on her.'

As Danny said it 'could' be wild caught. I have 5 ball pythons and 2 boa's and I have the lineage of all of them because they came from 'reputable' breeders. There are breeders and there are breeders and nearly every breeder I have come across can show me the parentage of their snakes.

If your unsure about any breeder ask friends or other keepers who they would recommend as I find word of mouth is normally more reliable when looking for a breeder.