My roommates and I had an idea one night while feeding the snake. I said "We should open a petstore." more in joking than anything since we have so many animals. My fiance and my two roommates stopped and started at me for a second and one of my roommates said "Thats a great idea, we should do it."

Our plan...

We would produce a lot of our own animals. We would breed our own ball pythons and other kinds of snakes (buying from other breeders the snakes we do not care to breed, like burmese and Emerald Tree boas, ect) We would also breed our own small mammals for both feeders as well as pets. I would be in charge of breeding reptiles and small mammals. One of my roommates would deal primarily in birds. My fiance would deal with the computer aspect of it and my other roommate would handle a lot of the business end.

As for animals like ferrets, cats, dogs, ect. (even reptiles, birds, and small mammals when the need arrises) we would take them in from rescues and find them homes through the petstore. We would also give you a discount on supplies when you adopt the animal. That way, animals in need of a good home have more of a chance of getting adopted. We would sell only enclosures that are approved for the animal. (We would not sell those little cup sized betta bowls. Those are just cruel) and we would provide the customer with as much information as we can about the animal they wish to purchase.

Basically, we would be the good petstore. The petstore that knows what they are doing and will give you the right information. If we don't know the answer to your question, we will find out. We will never give out false information about an animal just to get a sale. We would also only sell proper diets for the animals (I've seen too many horrible problems with ferrets because of bad diets)

This is just an idea for now. Years from actually doing it. But I like the idea of a petstore where no one lies just to get a sale.