The Safari Next Door

Great pet store. It’s clean inside and they got exactly what I needed. They’re really more like consultants, rather than a store. I talked to the staff and asked what they thought I needed for my pet. They were honest and didn’t have it in store, but actually special ordered it for me which only took a few days. Can’t say enough about the service. Easy parking too. Some pet stores aren’t open on Sundays, but they are which is a plus for a guy like me. Definitely would recommend this place.

I buy my feeder crickets here and found them to be healthy and robust, meaning they lived a long time and my Chameleon benefited from them having been «gut-​loaded» making them nutritious. They carry other reptile feeders including dubia roaches, mill-​worms, superwomen and seasonal horn worms.
I like going into the store as there are several beautiful parrots who are often out of their cages. I observed the female owner cuing kindly to the birds and it is evident that they are well cared for.
There is also a variety of reptiles and I like to see the new ones that come in. His chameleons were housed appropriately which I have not seen at other pet stores.

I walked in and looked around a little bit, there were birds screaming and it smelled like pee and poop everywhere. The animals were in the smallest cages possible. I saw some reptile carpet that I needed to get and decided to get it there because it was at a really good price. After I finish looking around, I walk up to the counter and the guy (I think it was the owner), is on the phone and tells the person he was talking to to hold on for a sec. He then says to me, «What do you need?» I was really taken aback by the really uncalled for attitude so I didn’t respond immediately. He then says, I’m in the middle of something, so if you could help me and tell me what you want that would be helpful. I said never mind and left. I had decided to drive all the way out here (I live in Eugene) because someone said that his crickets were really cheap, so prior to this guy’s attitude I was planning on making this my main cricket guy and was planning on coming back the next day and buying 500 crickets. Too bad.