(Photo Heavy).... What I Saw At The Pet Shop Today.

[Ludwig Venter]

I stopped at a pet shop today, (on my way home) and this is what they had for sale…… (and of course a lot more)...... Just getting to a pet shop is an event for me..... I have none in my area.

This Iguana

I think this is a Mandarin??

It is not a cockatoo, but an excellent talker….

Some Guinea pigs

Meerkat.

Emu;s for almost $2000

Lambs

Extremely Noisy Macaws

 

[marieukxx]

You saw meercats for sale? God I never knew you could buy them. Where do you live?

 

[Ludwig Venter]

You saw meercats for sale? God I never knew you could buy them. Where do you live?

South Africa..... they are lovely pets, and they also had the following available:

Peacock

Crocodile

A Turkey and Guinea fowl.

 

[MBOU]

I think those lambs are kids they look like babby goats to me!!

You can get meercats for pets in the UK too but you are looking at a LOT of £££££££ (400-500) and im not sure if you need a DWA license,, i dont think so but dont quote me on it! They dont make good pets at all because they are such a social species and depend a huge amount on a social group and hierachy. They life is their 'colony' andif there is only one or two... they just arent as happy as they should be...

 

[-FighterFishh]

Good lord, crocodiles and meerkats!
Here in the UK the best you can expect is some sort of exotic budgie.

 

[hanny93]

They sell meerkats and monkeys at my lfs..

EDIT: and im in the UK! the northwest aswell!

 

[Baccus]

The not a cockatoo is actually a cockatoo called a short billed corella, and yes they are great talkers you can also get a long billed corella that looks as though it's throat has been cut. The emu surpised me they really are a funny bird, very curious and usually sticky beaks. When I used to work at the Rockampton Zoological and Botanic Gardens one of my duties was to go down the back of the park and collect fire wood for the BBQ's. The emus that where living in that enclosure would always come over for a sticky beak and start trying to eat the smaller bits of wood I had collected as kindling. The young female water buffalo would also wonder over for a pat. She wasn't too bad but got annoying as she tried to join you on the buggy and used your leg to scratch her horns. Rather dangerous really as their horns can open cars like tin openers and all it would have taken for a nasty accident was for her to get a scare. The male a big old boy would also wonder over and he had no qualms about charging vechiles and had chased the ride on mowers on many occasions so when he emerged I often made a hasty retreat while trying to stop the stupid emu's and the female buffalo from following me out the gate.

I am guessing the croc is Nile crocadile, I am never really sure how big they get as in docco's when they take down a wilderbeest or zebra they look huge, but apparently the Aussie Saltie gets bigger then them and Salties get huge .
I would love a meerkat, but alas unless I manage to open a zoo I would never get to have them in Australia. WIth all our venomous snakes a meerkat would come in handy in finding them when they get into houses.

My husband would like an iguana but again not something I am going to be able to have. At least if I bothered to get the licences I could keep native snakes, blue tongue lizards even pink tongue lizards and breaded dragons and water dragons or I can just enjoy them when they come into my yard.

Was the mandarin duck expensive? They are pretty rare around my area and in Australia in general I believe.

The peacock I would avoid like the plague, noisy, leave a big mess behind them and are very good at destroying gardens, again experience from the Rocky Botanic gardens as they used to have heaps of them free roaming the whole place.

 

[Athena]

LOL "pet shop"? Don't you mean "zoo"? Those are all the the sort of things I'd go to the zoo to see here in the UK!

Don't think I'd have much joy in finding a big ugly croc for sale in my local pet shop somehow. I only ever see rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, budgies and...um...oh yeah - fish!

Athena

 

[Ludwig Venter]

LOL "pet shop"? Don't you mean "zoo"? Those are all the the sort of things I'd go to the zoo to see here in the UK!

Don't think I'd have much joy in finding a big ugly croc for sale in my local pet shop somehow. I only ever see rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, budgies and...um...oh yeah - fish!

Athena

The photo is a bit misleading..... that Croc is under 1m long.... I do not think it gets much bigger....

 

[amy1994]

There is someone with a meerkat as a pet in the UK, it was on tv
Dunno how they would have gotten it though.............

 

[MBOU]

From a breeder, there are actually quite a lot of people keeping things like racoons, racoon dogs, possums, coatimundis, wallabies, skunks, crododiles and caimen, sloths etc...

Some obviously need a DWA (Dangerous Wild Animals Act) License

 

[coldcazzie]

They sell small crocs in the nearest exotic pet store to me. It's not that rare. Although I've got to admit I've never seen a meerkat on sale as a pet...

 

[Hypnotoad]

They was selling a small croc in the reptile store I went to in Cardiff last weekend, next door to the Maidenhead. It did say you needed a DWA licence (it was the first Id heard of it)

There was also 2 poisonous boa`s there for sale which I thought was completely pointless

 

[MBOU]

Must of been pricey being the only ever 'posionous' boas LOL

Mind you, i dont think I would be the one caught trying to eat the snake to find out if it is poisonous in the first place (a poison is something you ingest).

 

[Hypnotoad]

Must of been pricey being the only ever 'posionous' boas LOL

Mind you, i dont think I would be the one caught trying to eat the snake to find out if it is poisonous in the first place (a poison is something you ingest).

I knew what I meant

They were in a cabinet, inside another cabinet which was padlocked. I read the notice and it was something along the lines of "Warning only (name of shop owner) aloud to open this cabinet. If any problems here are the main numbers to ring" with 2 hospital numbers and a DWA number. I just thought what was the point of having something like that in a shop.