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| - one thing is for sure, this place is nowhere near a "cute little pet store".
i think more appropriately this should be described as a "cute cornucopian pet store". it doesnt really roll off the tongue, but it sure fits.
(ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from late Latin, from Latin cornu copiae 'horn of plenty' (a mythical horn able to provide whatever is desired).)
indeed this place caters not only heavily to dogs and cats on its first floor but also birds, fish, gerbils and other rodents on its basement floor.
as you walk inside to your right is a whole wall devoted to cat crawling scratch tree post thingees. (sorry for using "thingee" but who the hell knows what those things are called.). these wall or sections of wall themes continue throughout the store. walls of leashes, collars, toys and outfits.
they have towers of beds, a little library of books about parenting for pets; its very comfortable you can read a book, stare at the fish in the large fish in the tank that sits at the centre, and if you are sufficiently engrossed and distracted, chomp on one of their 2 dollar homemade-looking dog biscuits.
if you go downstairs they have a whole half floor dedicated to bird cages. the other half has synthetic and natural stuff you can put in your fish tanks. along the eastern wall, they have birds and rodents for sale. the only thing theyre missing are dogs and cats.
so this store is somewhere in between small pet food stores you see around the city and larger pet stores like pjs pet centres. i only cross checked one item in terms of price and it turned out to be the same price as another place (timmie doggie outfitters). for the most part i can get what i need closer to where i live, but if there was a hard to find item that i needed sourced, id try here first.
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