what petstore do you shop at?

**tortuga55** · 02-23-2005, 12:32 PM

I only shop at Hidden Reef Pet Store because they will not sell you a pet just for the sake of selling a pet. When I was buying fish for my salt water fish tank, they told me exactly which fish went well together and which ones I would be able to look after. There were certain fish I wanted right away but they told me not to buy them yet because they were to picky and my tank was not ready. Other fish they would not sell me bwecause my tank is to small or my other fish would pick on them. This is good because i do not know everything about fish and dont want to spend 50 bucks on a fish only to have it die. When we bought our ferret Freddy they asked us a bunch of questions to see if we would be ready and able to take care of her.

**Maya & Inka's mommy** · 02-23-2005, 01:38 PM

We don't have those shops here. So I usually go to "Tom & Co".

**Suki Wingy** · 02-23-2005, 04:16 PM

Originally posted by teenster3
I used to shop & get my dogs groomed at Petsmart but, I had a VERY bad experience with 2 of the groomers.

Me too. Nino was wearing a halti head collar I had bought at PetSmart, and the groomer was really afraid of him!

When she put the collar/leash combo thingy around his neck I slipped off the halti and she freaked out and told me that if he was even wearing that thing, I would need to keep it on. I told her it wasn't a muzzle, but a halti and that I had bought it in that very store. She took him and tied him REALLY close to the far wall, and handled him really roughly!

(remember it's glass and she knew that I could see her handling him.) I go to Petsmart anyway, just not the grooming part of it. Our store is 3 miles away and I rollerblade there.

**Suki Wingy** · 02-23-2005, 04:23 PM

Originally posted by YellowLabLover
For local tack shops, I love Horse Emporium, Halls Saddlery, and State Line Tack (only go to SLT when I'm out of state).

SLT is owned by PetSmart, you probably knew that.

**tortuga55** · 02-23-2005, 06:13 PM

We have a Petscetera by my house but i never go there because they treat there fish really bad. They keep the betas in plastic cups all stacked together on a shelf and the saltwater fish are in tanks with no coral, or substrate. Most of ther fish are also over priced and labeled wrong. A clown fish at Hidden Reef is around $12 while at Petcetera it is about $40-50. The fish at Hidden Reef or Animal House usually dont have ick and if they do they never sell them while, i have seen many get sold with ick at Petcetera. But that is just the one by my house, i am not saying that all the stores are like that.

**elizabethann** · 02-25-2005, 11:09 AM

I shop at either Pet Smart or Pet Quarters (local store originiated in Maine). I HATE Pet Co. Sorry if this offends anybody. The Pet Co's around here are so gross. They're dirty, overcrowded with animal supply stuff all over the aisles and the people who work there are MEAN and NASTY! I found Pet Smart about 6 months ago and will drive 40 extra minutes to go there. The people are so nice and friendly. The store is clean, the cages are clean and there are no dead fish floating in the tanks (like at Pet Co). I like Pet Quarters too but the one near my town is rather small and they don't carry everything.

**Vette** · 03-07-2005, 06:02 AM

We livei n a hic town. so there isnt any one of those stores here.. all we have pet wise.. is WalMart and a dreaded stupid pet store... so if want to go to any of those places you listed above,, we have to do a lot of traviling...

so none of them.