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Backyard Nature center

4.3 (6 reviews)

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Christie S.

I normally live this shop and enjoy supporting the knowledgable owners. Today they let me down big when they sold me a $225 purple martin house without telling me there hundreds of small piece's and putting thus together would be a nightmare. So far he has 7 hours in the project and it's not done!

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3 years ago

Great service and huge supply of hardware and finest quality feeders and seed! Great people!

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Petland Wichita

Petland Wichita

(35 reviews)

My first and likely last visit to this store…read more I needed help. I could not find any available staff to assist me. Employees whom I did see were all busy and looked to be high school age. After finding what I hoped was the correct aquarium tank, heat lamp, and bulb I went to check out. The clerk helpfully pointed out that there was a crack in my aquarium glass. The problem was out of the five small aquariums in stock, four were cracked. The clerk asked me where the aquariums were in the store. One area in the store was very messy. I was confused if that was an area for retail or for inventory storing. It was extremely confusing. It seemed to be an area for retail, but it was quite disorganized. My impression from my visit to this Petland store was that it is understaffed, poorly organized, and no one is paying attention to see if the items being stocked on the shelf are a good quality or damaged. In comparison to other pet stores in Wichita, this was quite inferior.

Manager of the day Lydia was very unfriendly and not helpful at all. Was trying to rush me and my…read morefamily when we were playing with a puppy we were really considering purchasing.(we had even named the puppy) She was very negative when talking about the West location. "...They've only been doing this for 3 years they're still trying to figure out what they're doing..." Unfortunately her inability to be helpful and her poor costumer service made us run out the store. Currently on our way to the West location. Managers do better. Thank you!

Kansas Humane Society - the 3 kittens I bought to KHS

Kansas Humane Society

(25 reviews)

The Kansas Humane Society does excellent work throughout the greater Wichita area. I got my dog…read morefrom there, a brindle staffordshire terrier, and she has been a charm. The process for adoption was very easy to go through, and the facility is neat and clean. When my dog got old enough I took advantage of their puppy kindergarten program, although they do offer other obedience programs as well. Through this program I learned how to communicate to my dog and also socialize her with other puppies of the same age group. I would recommend to any of my friends to adopt from the humane society first. The people there really do care what they are doing for our four legged friends, and it shows.

Super unprofessional employees and management…read more My friend drove an hour with her two small children to visit a kitten they had seen online. She and her kids immediately fell in love with the kitten, but were told they couldn't adopt. When I emailed some concerns to management, it took them three weeks to reply with an email that I was never intended to see. Their response to my complaint was that it was "farfefched" ... as if my friend would drive an hour one direction to adopt a kitten only to opt out of the adoption after seeing how much her kids and the kitten loved each other. This was my email complaint (shorteded) A male employee in his late twenties/ early thirties with light brown hair, glasses and white plugs in his earlobes "helped" my friend's family out with their desired adoption. My friend went in to adopt Mitzi around closing time today (6/25) with her two sons who are five and seven. They saw Mitzi online and went to visit her, but also saw two other kittens just in case - they knew immediately Mitzi was the kitten for their family. Mitzi obviously felt the same as she was running across the youngest child's lap and was very playful during their time with her. Unfortunately, my friend was unable to adopt Mitzi due to two employees. They made passive aggressive remarks about the kids not being able to handle kittens and were very rude to her and her children. While the boys were trying to get the kittens to play with the toys, one of the employees said "they are street cats, they don't like toys, they don't like you, and they don't like kids". When Mitzi ran across the youngest child's lap he got excited and squirmed a little - one of the employees criticized the child for moving and my friend for bringing the child. They said that she needs an adult cat instead of a kitten. They even said at one point to her "maybe if we left the room they would actually want to play with you guys more" then wouldn't leave the room to allow the family to play with the kittens. When my friend expressed interest in adopting Mitzi, one employee said to her "she is my favorite and I won't let her go home with just anyone". They also told her that she needs to adopt an adult cat as her kids shouldn't be allowed around kittens. This is highly disappointing as these children have grown up around dogs and have been around cats their entire lives.

Backyard Nature center - petstore - Updated October 2026

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