Monthly Archives: May 2011

Last week we went out to Busy Bees Pre-School at Chapmanslade to help them set up a new classroom pet – a pair of male guinea pigs. We had taken these guinea pigs in as rescue animals and they were in need of a good home.

Busy Bees had been working towards getting the guinea pigs with fundraising events including a sports afternoon.  They had raised enough money for a lovely outdoor hutch and all the bits and pieces needed for the little piggies and we were able to donate an indoor cage to them too. The children were delighted and the pigs had lots of welcome cuddles.

The children have promised to keep us up to date with the animals’ progress and send in some drawings soon – so watch this space!

Sunday Opening 11am – 4pm

So here we are today, Mike, Ashley and I – opening up the Bath Pet Centre for our lovely Bath customers here at 7 Lower Borough Walls. Here is a pic of the last weekend Ashley and Mike worked together, but they are in more ‘normal’ dress today!

We asked our customers and they said that they would like us to open Sundays – it will take awhile to get the word out, so please come see us and tell all your friends about our new Sunday opening – we will be here every Sunday from 11 am to 4 pm.

Rabbit Awareness Week

I am getting the animal floor ready for Rabbit Awareness Week this week – 23rd to 29th May. We will have promotions on our 6′ hutches and runs and pet carriers and will be on hand to give specialist advice on the care and behaviour of our furry bunny friends. We have leaflets, caresheets, books and posters – so if you are a school why not contact us to ask for a Rabbit Pack? 

Plus we are running a competition for the children – answer the questions on the sheet (or for the littlies we have colouring sheets) – to win a toy rabbit or a large bag of Excel rabbit food.

So, don’t forget to pop down to Bath Pet Centre this week to find out about all things rabbit – and we hope to see you all on Sundays (but we can’t promise fancy dress!)

We had a great time visiting Chestnut Class at Seend Primary School last week. They wanted a class pet and the children came up with all sorts of ideas and Owen, one of the boys, did lots of research and the class decided on stick insects!  The children didn’t know when we were coming so their teacher, Mrs Coleman invited us to play a little game with them – a kind of  “What’s My Line” game – where the children had to guess why we were there and what our jobs were. It took them a little while of asking lots of interesting questions and finally they realised we were from the pet shop and they got very excited as they knew we must be bringing in their school pet. 

Owen helped us to bring in the tank with the stick insects – we had decided on Giant Prickly Sticks as they would be more interesting and entertaining for the children.

Chestnut Class promised to take good care of their new pets and said they would write to us regularly to let us know how they were getting on. We have already heard from them all as they sent in some lovely letters of thanks and also gave us a progress report and news on what they have already learned about sticks since we left them. Here is a sample of a few of their lovely letters. (Click to enlarge)