Shops and Shopping

Pet shop is a retail business which sells a number of varieties of animals and supplies, including fish for home aquariums, small birds such as parakeets, small mammals such as ferrets and hamsters, and small reptiles such as lizards and snakes. Mice, small goldfish, and other animals that serve to be live food for reptiles and fish are also usually sold. Pet stores also sell a range of food, supplies, and accessories.Less common in pet stores are larger mammals such as dogs and cats. Some shops that carry puppies and kittens charge higher prices for them the same animal from a breeder. There are many small, privately owned pet stores that carry puppies and kittens, maintain a superb level of care and get their animals from large, inhumane, and illegal Puppy Mills. In the UK and many other countries dogs and cats are not sold at pet stores.