Pets at Home

Every time I am down Cardiff Bay Retail Park I always have to look in Pets at Home because they have so many animals that are just too cute to ignore. Pets at Home are a wonderful store with everything for all your pet needs. As well as selling animals, they sell everything you need for animals for them to eat and have fun. Pets at Home are a fun and loving store.
As soon as you walk through the doors you get that ‘pet’ smell wafting through your nose. As soon as you get the smell you want to go and see all the cute animals they have. They mainly sell rabbits, gerbils and hamsters and fish that they display in cages and tanks but you can tell they are looked after extremely well by the friendly staff and they seem happy but want to have a home. They have deals such as buying two hamsters together for £16. You can then head over to the accessories needed for the hamsters and they have a huge selection of cages and food. Thy have a wide selection of fish to choose from and all the tanks to go with them. The latest addition to the store is that they have a veterinary for you pets.
If you want to buy pets then I would suggest you go here because they have some of the sweetest animals that will make your heart melt. I dare you to go in there and not say «awwww» when you see some of them.

When I left home, my pets all stayed with my mum. It’s their home and they’re happy there so I would never dream of uprooting them and bringing them to Cardiff. Still, I miss them all like crazy and none of the places I’ve lived in here allow pets so there’s this huge animal-​shaped hole in my life.
Pets at Home provides some relief from this.
Firstly, and most obviously, I get to go and enjoy the cute animals they have there. My favourites are the guinea pigs and the Roborovski hamsters, and I can quite easily spend a good hour in there debating whether my landlord would notice if I bought one. I am eternally disappointed that there are no mice here, but any cute animals will amuse me well enough.
Secondly, since I miss my cats and dog so much, and feel pretty bad for abandoning them, I regularly pop in to buy them treats and toys to take home with me. The range of beds is particularly good, which is handy when you have a dog as destructive as mine.
This branch also has a Companion Care Vetinary Centre (2 920 232 957).

I find that when I’m feeling bored, or perhaps a little depressed that my apartment doesn’t allow pets, a wander through the local pet store will perk me right up. I get to pretend that all these animals are my own pets and I get to name them.
Rest assured, every single animal in the Cardiff Bay Pets At Home is already named and I will be very annoyed with anyone who starts trying to call my pets by different names. It will confuse them.
Pets At Home has a great rodent area, with floor-​based hutches and enclosures for guinea pigs and rabbits to run around in, as well as a bevy of cages and runs containing hamsters, mice, rats, degus and chinchillas. Over the other side of the store they have several large tanks containing a variety of fishes, but I’ve always found aquariums vaguely pointless. The rodents are where it’s at. A great way to while away an hour.

I’m a sucker for pet shops, and I particularly love this chain of pet supermarkets. Although you can often pick up bits and bobs at little independent pet shops, when you need several things it’s often easier to head straight to Pets at Home. My only complaint is that this branch (perhaps it’s the same at all Pets at Home branches?) don’t sell the dog food I buy (Harrington’s), so I still have to pick that up elsewhere.
For pick ‘n’ mix dog treats, squeaky toys, and accessories such as shampoo, bowls, leads and collars, however, Pets at Home has far more choice than most smaller pet shops. The staff all seem real animal-​lovers, and if you take your dog in with you they often ask if they can give it a treat or two. Just be prepared for your dog to get into a right frenzy over all the food smells luring them from aisle to aisle — oh, and watch them if you go near the rabbit and guinea pig enclosures!