Back when we had first started out we had different puppies in the store. One of those was a Mini Daschund. Just playing around with them we had touch the little guy to fetch at only eight weeks old. We would toss a cardboard roll from paper towels a few feet from him and he'd come running back with it. It was the cutest thing though to see him running with a cardboard roll that was pretty much the same size as him.

The birds have some personality. Gibson will make the sound of the phone ringing and then carry on a conversation with himself as if he is on both ends of the phone. Cleo, as mentioned before, likes to make farting sounds. Moses says all sorts of things. Moses loves yelling at people to tell them to close the door. Not to mention they all have learned to say a few of our names here and once one starts yelling, they all start repeating the names.

Andy and Teri tend to fall a lot in the store. Before we had moved to our new location Teri had a customer in asking about used equipment. They walked down into the basement to see what they could find, suddenly Teri walked into collapsed bird cages on the floor and fell on top of them. Andy took a nice spill as well. He was reaching into the puppy pen to grab their water dish to refill. The dish was slightly out of his reach and as he stretched to grad it he fell right into the pen. Andy was pretty embarrassed to have done that with customers in the store. Jeff had watched this all unfold and watched as Andy stood back up. Jeff waited for Andy to get mad but instead he broke into laughter.

Just after the store had opened up Andy was teaching Jeff how to feed snakes. They were going to feed a seven foot Pine Snake a frozen thawed rat. Jeff had lifted the lid of the tank and then stopped to ask Andy a question when the Pine Snake then jumped out of the tank and took the rat right out of his hand. Jeff was speechless and Andy couldn't stop laughing at the blank look on Jeff's face.

On his way into town Andy notices he is running low on gas. He continues into town to run out of gas near North Elementary School. He then walks in the rain to the pet store. By this time Andy is late to open the doors and quickly cleans up after the German Shepard puppies in the store (they had made quite the mess overnight). Much to Andy's surprise he has five people waiting at the door. He ran to the back of the building to get water for the dogs to then get locked out of the store by "Cuda". So with few options left Andy did his best Chuck Norris impersonation and kicked in the door so he could open the shop.

One morning Jeff was going about his daily routine and had just started feeding the birds. While visiting with Gibson (our male African Grey) a customer walks in and over to the birds. Jeff and her started talking about how smart parrots are. She then starts to walk away to visit with the rest of the animals when Cleo (our female African Grey) makes a farting sound. The customer then turns around, looks at Jeff and walks out of the store in disgust. Dumb-founded, Jeff said nothing to her. He had thought she wouldn't believe him if he had said Cleo made the noise.