Pets at Home

I have to say once you look past the polish and chain ideal you will find a store after only one thing, and its not your pets welfare. They give you bad advice and have fish that die on you after a week. Sure the pets in there are cute but you just wanna save them from the misery they must be suffering. Will not shop here again unless I’m desperate and even then I will be passing out cards to Urmston Aquatics. Avoid!

I feel sorry for the animals here. Really really sorry. Their advice is always given with an unsure tone and when you arrive home to carry it out, you realise why it was said in such an unsure tone. The people there need to be trained more or have a specified rota so that someone is to hand to give the correct advice. Unimpressed doesn’t describe. I’ve had three rats from here and they’ve all died before their life expectancy with cancerous tumours. I’d advise not buying the pets from here (even if you want to rescue them) for small children. Go to a proper pet store!
I know other people who have had the same problem with the rats and people who have had fish that have died more or less straight away even though they have followed instructions on how to set up the fish tanks.
This place needs to step up. They may provide decently priced food, bedding and toys but I no longer trust most of it.

We’ve all seen those adverts that try and make us feel guilty about not giving out pets enough toys or gourmet food. Well, they work. Gosh darn it. Yes, we’re a nation of pet spoilers and no doubt there lurks many an obese cat or behaviourally dubious dog in many a semi-​detached house, but at least these fellows are making a bit of money out of it.
It’s the place to find all those bits and bobs you can’t get in supermarkets, but what really shines in Pets at Home is the availability of small pets. Empty your mind of all those sinister pet shops with poor, suffocated hamsters squeezing against one another and pressing their little paws up against the glass, longing for respite. At Pets at Home, wellbeing is the operative word. Little rodents can be bought here, as well as fishies, hutches for the bunnies, gifts, food, wholesome treats, reptile food (it remains to be seen whether there’s a crossover here with the rodents for sale…), stuff to keep the wildlife happy in your garden and even every product you need to help raise your own chickens.
My own chickens. I will do this one day, simply because every chicken owner I’ve met has testified as to the quality of the eggs.
If you’re paying a visit to the Trafford Centre and love your pets, definitely pop in here. It’s a trip out as well as supply gathering.