New Pet Shop in Town

There’s a new pet shop in town, and it opened with a flourish last week.  We decided to add it to our list of “things to do” and check it out today.  It certainly is spacious and well laid out.  But with an existing pet shop close by, I imagine that there may only be enough trade for one, after all, we do live in quite a small town.  Time will tell if there will be enough business for both shops. 

It’s still school holidays in our neck of the woods, and there was a crowd of kids in the puppies play room.   They get taken out of their cages during the day, we were told, for some socialisation and play time.  The puppies were having a great time, racing around and having a bit of rough and tumble.  They all seemed to be cross breeds, two different pedigree dogs deliberately mated.  The cute little black and white pup was a Papillon - Toy Poodle cross, and there were several Sydney Silky pups crossed with Maltese.  Cross breeding like this can produce quite cute puppies, but I wonder why serious breeders would want to mix the breeds up this way.  And the puppies are not cheap, by any means.

Puppy play time in the pet shop

We saw kittens all cuddled up asleep together, and aviaries full of small birds.  And running flat out was this little fellow in his wheel.  No matter how hard he runs, he just can’t get to the end

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Mouse in his exercise wheel

The Mall was the next stop and we could hear the noise of excited youngsters as they watched Nigel the magician do his tricks. “Bunny Wunny” the little white rabbit was an important part of the show, along with balloon animals, and disappearing tricks.  At the end of the show there was a long queue of children waiting for their turn to pat Bunny Wunny.  The kids were enthralled by it all.

The magician and his audience

After a visit to the Library, all the items of our list had been ticked off.  Wonder how our own little pet was at home on this chilly morning.  There she was, keeping nice and warm by the heater.  Cats certainly know all about keeping comfortable, don’t they?

Muffy keeping warm at home