AVOID Don Leydig and Amy Leydig of "Poor Boy Pythons" Bedford, PA

I will start off by saying I do not like to leave reviews such as this and only have had to one other time. Unfortunately I got duped with sick, mite infested snakes from Don Leydig of "Poor Boy Pythons" on Monday 10/26/15. Don lives in Bedford, Pennsylvania and met me in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania at night on 10/26. We did meet in a face to face transaction for an adult pair of super dwarf retics that he bought from my good friend in July, 3 months prior, and I checked the snakes out in their tubs that were duct taped with 3 layers of tape. Don claimed that the snakes are very hard to get back into the tubs so I took his word and observed them through the tubs in the back of his van and they looked fine. My friend that sold them to Don also met us there and bought the 2 vision cages they were living in. Don and I talked and he was nice saying the snakes were healthy and didn't ever have any issues. Knowing he only had them for a short time, I was not too concerned about believing him. After that, I made the drive home where I got the snakes out to observe them better and put them into quarantine. I get the male SD out and I immediately notice he is breathing pretty loud and hear wheezing when he breathes heavy. After setting him down, to my horror, my hands are covered in snake mites. I close the tub and check the female. She is also wheezing and sneezes a few times throughout the ordeal and also has mites on her paper towels underneath her and on her body. She even had maggot larva on the paper towels and what appeared to be blood on the bottom of the tub! I immediately text Don about the respiratory infections before I saw the mites and he responds that he "never noticed and the female always made a loud hiss." I called him two times right after he texted back when I found the mites and he does not answer. I text two more times over the course of an hour to please call me and get no response. The next day I finally get ahold of him and tell him about the mites and RI they both have as he laughs on the phone, doubting my every word. He claims they were his first retics and he "doesn't know what he's doing." Then I ask what can be done to rectify the situation and he offers to send only $50 and will not refund my money and take the snakes back because he claims the hundreds of dollars was spent in less than 20 hours. I spent $25 on 1 can of prevent a mite alone. $50 wouldn't even cover the fee to walk one snake into my vet. Don then hung up the phone on me and blocked me on Facebook to hide. I spoke with my friend who bought the vision cages they lived in and he said they were disgusting and one had weeks worth of feces packed under the front lip of the one cage. Don is a liar and tries saying I am trying to "extort money from him and the snakes were fine when he put them in the tubs." He's full of it, to say the least. Don Leydig of "Poor Boy Pythons" is uneducated about proper care and sells sick animals with mites and refuses to take responsibility. Do yourself a favor and do not put yourself through what I'm going through for dealing with Poor Boy Pythons in Bedford, PA!

MAGGOT LARVAE