Animal Kingdom

I hope all these bad reviews of this place, soon put them out of business, we bought a German Shepherd, about a year ago from these jerks. he was shy, and acted as though he was abused. I as the fool that I can be at times, felt sorry for him, and the next day went back to purchase him. I paid 799.00 for him, he was un papered, and when i asked questions over weeks, I was told he was purebred by the owners wife, she assured me she knew the breeder, they got me on a PAL loan (a loan for puppies and supplies) I found out later the whole 900.00 of payments were not even taking away the balance, cause it was 300% loan for people with crappy credit, and I had excellent credit. i had my bank pay it off, and now have paid 2200.00 for this dog, it has MANY, MANY MANY health problems, and mental problems, it is so, so sad, these horrible people are even in business, latest my dog has spine problems, I can’t say it enough, people stay the hell away from this place! people just drop off pups in the parking lot, from the Fresno central valley area, they haven’t seen the living conditions, nor have they even know if they are purebred, I will never ever buy one thing from them, stay away!!!

While stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2006 we purchased 3 dogs from there store located in downtown Pismo; an American Eskimo, a Pekingese pug and an Akita. 9 years later we still have all three dogs and have been very pleased with their health and temperaments. Are two young children have come to love them over the years and we are fortunate to have purchased them from here. On every trip back to Pismo we always stop by to say hi.

I used to love coming in here to see the dogs, but my last visit was extremely horrible. First, the employees were very unknowledgeable and not friendly. Second, they had a *pretty large* golden retriever puppy stuffed into one of their small cages on the bottom. A fucking golden retriever people! All dogs need tons of exercise, especially a larger dog like this. I am not exaggerating when I say that this dog barely had ANY room to move around. How is this even allowed?! They also had Siberian husky puppies, two of them to one cage, which was still cramped, but not as bad. That poor golden retriever though, it just killed me.
Normally I stay away from the whole puppy mill debate, but all of these comments are true. I know this because I know a man who sells his dogs to this store and others. I know him because we made the mistake of purchasing a puppy mill puppy years ago. We were uneducated and just wanted a cute dog. This guy had cage after cage lined up with a mother and father in each one (if I remember correctly). I am not shitting you, probably a good ten to twelve cages of dogs that looked like they get NO attention and NO love. It was the most heartbreaking site I’ve ever seen in my life. We ended up buying a puppy from him that ended up almost dying of parvo. Lesson learned.
Anyways, back on topic. While Animal Kingdom is a fun little place to take your kids to see cute puppies, please RESCUE. For the amount of money these people charge, you can rescue a well trained dog that will love you endlessly. Rescues are amazing! They offer vaccinated, microchipped, trained dogs for half the price. You cant beat it!
Animal Kingdom — PLEASE STOP FORCING your larger pets into tiny cages.
Sincerely,
One pissed off animal lover

This place gave me nightmares, they have darling puppies in glass boxes. I couldn’t see any water it looked like they were very hot. One looked like it was barely breathing.
Just remember that if you buy one of these poor babies you will end up with a ton of vet bills & you are contributing to puppy mills that are so inhumane. They are asking for outrageous amounts of money when you can go to your local shelter and rescue a pup. I am not a local but I sure wish someone would call the humane society and report them. These poor puppies need to have plenty of water & open air pins.
So sad I can not stop thinking of them

The staff were not knowledgeable and provided false information on the puppy I rescued from that small glass aquarium. The puppy has mites and a vaginal infection from being cooped up in that cage for 19 days straight. It is sad and no pet stores should ever sell puppies.

DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR FROM THIS PLACE. They claim their pups dont come from puppy mills.WRONG. All this place is looking to do is make a quick buck and make you believe you’re getting a great deal! you want a awesome dog go adopt from one of the tons of shelters or rescue groups we have here in california! this is absolutely disgusting to know these people are scaming innocent people and treating these poor dogs like this. i dont know how this place can be so proud of themselves knowing the way they are treating these dogs! dogs need love and affection not to be locked up for hours on end and scared to see a human! BOYCOTT THESE PEOPLE AND DO NOT SUPPORT THEIR HORRIBLE HABITS!!!

Bought my Siberian husky from here in July 2012 and they really helped me out with information that I needed to get squared away. Instantly fell in love as soon as I had her. Happy to say that my husky is happy and healthy today as well as my best friend :) I’m also really glad to learn that these pups don’t come from puppy mills!

I will never shop there again!
I brought my dog in there twice to have a harness fitted, and both times the clerk put my dog in harness that DID NOT FIT! And then, to top it off, they wouldn’t let me return it because they said it was dirty and they couldn’t resell it. The manager was so rude to me, I was shocked.
I am not impressed with their customer service. I can get a better product for a cheaper price elsewhere, why would I spend the money to support a local business when they are RUDE and ill informed!