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My favorite pet shop is the Pet Supplies Plus on Plymouth Road.
They've had the healthiest fish and the most informed salespeople
of any store I've been in (although I haven't been in either of
Valerie's favorites).

For pets, the Humane Society of Huron Valley is good, but the
last time I looked for a small dog I had much better luck at the
Jackson Humane Society.  There is also a group which "rescues"
dogs from the humane societies.  They try to match up people with
pets and are able to spend more time matching the right animals
with the right people.  You can even give them a request for a
type of pet and they'll watch until one becomes available.
Unfortunately, I've forgotten the name of this group.  They meet
on West Liberty by Stadium on certain Sunday afternoons, and they
run ads in the local paper.

The pet rescue group also has "adopt a pet" days on occasional Sundays at
the same location (a veterinary clinic near W. Liberty, east of Stadium). 
They charge a $25 fee and require proof a spaying or neutering when the
animal matures.  The animals are very well cared for by this group.  We
adopted a kitten from them last fall.  Between the Humane Society and this
group (or others like it) I can't see supporting pet shops (at least as
far as cats and dogs go) when so many fine pets are in desperate need of
homes...  There are also several active Greyhound rescue groups who save
"retired" racers from their retirement gift: A club in the head. 
Typically, several greyhounds are rescued leaving many others to their
fate for lack of homes and the widespread practices of greyhound racing
trainers.  What is a scandal and hidden practice in horse racing (the
destruction of unwanted animals) is standard practice in greyhound racing
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In VA we have two pet shops that do not sell cats and dogs.  Instead,
they provide free space for different animal shelters and humane
societies to have adoption clinics.

That really makes sense!  "Stocking" cats and dogs has to be a pain, even
for a pet shop, and a fairly low turnover and low profit item...but oh those
accessories and related services they can offer the people coming through
their store for the adoptions.  I'm sure the clinic that offers the space
where we adopted our cat generates a lot of new business through the
adopt-a-pet days.

The most wonderful place to adopt a pet in Northern Michigan is Concerned
Citizens for Animals in Grayling.  They do fund raisers like having pets
pictures taken with santa at Christmas to afford the animals care.  The best
thing about Concerned Citizens is that they never put an animal to sleep. 
The coordinator Dixie is also wonderful.

It cost me $40 to adopt my rotweiller (how could anyone have ever gotten rid
of my sweet very non-aggressive puppy?) but I got $40 off when I got him fixed
so it only cost me $35.  Quite a deal and a great place to adopt a pet

sounds like a great place to me. :)  also sounds like something that
would be good to donate money to, if people are able to do that 
(financially I mean).

There's a place in a strip mall off rawsonville road that just made
me ill.  It's called PetSmart... or PetWorld... something like that.
They are one of the few ones I've seen that still has cats and dogs.
they had some beautiful silverpoint bengals (I would have **loved**
to take one home) but they **all** had runny noses and some sort of
eye infection.  I just hate seeing animals cooped up in those small
cells when they're sick, and it didn't seem like any of the workers
cared that the animals weren't well.

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