Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

petmania stores

Options
  • 03-06-2008 6:05pm
    #1
    galwayair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭


    any sign of them venturing west ?? do they have a good selection of pets


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Petmania in Athlone. Never been so can not comment!


  • Options
    #3
    galwayair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭galwayair


    i think your refering to petworld athlone ?


  • Options
    #4
    Demonique
    Registered Users Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭Demonique


    galwayair wrote: »
    i think your refering to petworld athlone ?

    Oh that place, they hired one guy for the reptile section and he told me the only reptile he's kept is a cornsnake, far too little experience IMO.
    Some of their bearded dragons looked dehydrated the last time I was in.

    Good for reptile supplies IMO, not so good for the reptiles themselves! And they're far dearer than the reptile shops in Dublin. €150 for a baby bearded dragon?

    Paws Pet Centre don't do reptiles, but they do have reptile supplies and at least they have a clue about the animals they do sell


  • Options
    #5
    Jimkel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Jimkel


    I can't say anything about the other petmania shops but if anyone and has not been to the store in Santry then they should go, By far the most knowledgable staff In any petshop in Dublin (Only Reptile Havan beats it for reptile). Animal welfare is top notch unlike some other Dublin pet shops I won't care to mention. Go to the shop and ask someone anything about any animal in there you will see these people are like walking encyclopedias, They have experts on fish, mammals, reptiles, birds and they are just so damn nice. Since I started going there I never go near any other shop to get my supplies, most helpful staff IMO. Highly recommend a visit. Never been to any other petmanias though but although they are all the same company obviously their staff are gonna differ shop to shop. I used to go to Petstop and Whackers but found the staff to be very arrogant and unfriendly. I like Kinsealy petshop but I never go their anymore since I can get everything I need from Santry.


  • Options
    #6
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    galwayair wrote: »
    any sign of them venturing west ?? do they have a good selection of pets

    Don't know much about them, what in specific are you looking for?? There is a petshop in Longford that I find excellent depending on what you are looking for.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    galwayair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭galwayair


    just a good shop in galway worth supporting that puts animals first


  • Options
    #8
    houndsoflove
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭houndsoflove


    Petmania store on the Ennis Road in Limerick.


  • Options
    #9
    Melion
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    Yep, there is one in Limerick.


  • Options
    #10
    animan
    Registered Users Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Jimkel wrote: »
    I can't say anything about the other petmania shops but if anyone and has not been to the store in Santry then they should go, By far the most knowledgable staff In any petshop in Dublin (Only Reptile Havan beats it for reptile). Animal welfare is top notch unlike some other Dublin pet shops I won't care to mention. Go to the shop and ask someone anything about any animal in there you will see these people are like walking encyclopedias, They have experts on fish, mammals, reptiles, birds and they are just so damn nice.

    I don't know what staff you talked to there but when I went in they had a hatchling corn and a hatchling milk snake in the same cricket box. When I said this to a member of staff they just said " they're grand together, look at them curled up together." Obviously because I'm only 15 they didn't take me seriously. Never going back there again.

    Gav


  • Options
    #11
    Demonique
    Registered Users Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭Demonique


    animan wrote: »
    I don't know what staff you talked to there but when I went in they had a hatchling corn and a hatchling milk snake in the same cricket box. When I said this to a member of staff they just said " they're grand together, look at them curled up together." Obviously because I'm only 15 they didn't take me seriously. Never going back there again.

    Gav

    Yes, they're grand together and doubtless they'll still be grand when the staff come in and find the cornsnake gone and the milksnake with a suspicious bulge in its belly.

    Yes, milksnakes have been known to eat other snakes, they're not as bad as kingsnakes (my cali king became surgically attached to my finger because I had previously handled a baby cornsnake and it smelled it off me. I've seen the same thing in the Reptile Haven. Ben was showing a potential customer baby cali kings of various colours, the first one handled no problem with every baby cali after the first bit his finger because his finger smelled of the previous babies)


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Thread closed. This thread has gone off topic now. The OP only asked if there was a store coming to Galway and now the thread has moved to slagging off petmania.

    As per charter rules threads that criticise shops are not allowed. The end.


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement