This is a shop inside the historic Cardiff Market. An old Victorian building that remains a good…read moresource of produce from local traders. As you enter the market you will be greeted by the same smell of fresh fish that has filled my childhood memories of this place. Pets World offers a wide range of products for pet owners and prospective pet owners alike. They've got hamsters, guinea pigs and rabbits on offer if you fancy getting yourself a furry friend or you just want to gawp at something cute for a few minutes. As well as this they will be able to provide you with all the cages, hutches, food, toys, and supplies you may need for your pet. As with all the traders in the old Cardiff Market, Pets World is an expert in its field, so they will be able to offer expert advice and guidance that you know you can trust.

Ok so I'm not a particularly animally person as in I'm not big on pets. Tthe reason I went to Pet…read moreWorld is because I just happened to be out with my friend who was getting supplies for his Hamster. Overall the stall has large selection of stock including cages, toys, treats, food and of course animals. I had visited once before and if memory serves they had kittens for sale but sadly they weren't there this time. There was however an array of birds which were sat about chirping and my friend was able to get some nutty seedy type things for the Hamster which weren't that bad for value. This shop can be easily located on the balcony in the market so there should be no problem in finding it if you find yourself in need of straw and sawdust.

When I left home, my pets all stayed with my mum. It's their home and they're happy there so I…read morewould never dream of uprooting them and bringing them to Cardiff. Still, I miss them all like crazy and none of the places I've lived in here allow pets so there's this huge animal-shaped hole in my life. Pets at Home provides some relief from this. Firstly, and most obviously, I get to go and enjoy the cute animals they have there. My favourites are the guinea pigs and the Roborovski hamsters, and I can quite easily spend a good hour in there debating whether my landlord would notice if I bought one. I am eternally disappointed that there are no mice here, but any cute animals will amuse me well enough. Secondly, since I miss my cats and dog so much, and feel pretty bad for abandoning them, I regularly pop in to buy them treats and toys to take home with me. The range of beds is particularly good, which is handy when you have a dog as destructive as mine. This branch also has a Companion Care Vetinary Centre (02920 232 957).

I'm a sucker for pet shops, and I particularly love this chain of pet supermarkets. Although you…read morecan often pick up bits and bobs at little independent pet shops, when you need several things it's often easier to head straight to Pets at Home. My only complaint is that this branch (perhaps it's the same at all Pets at Home branches?) don't sell the dog food I buy (Harrington's), so I still have to pick that up elsewhere. For pick 'n' mix dog treats, squeaky toys, and accessories such as shampoo, bowls, leads and collars, however, Pets at Home has far more choice than most smaller pet shops. The staff all seem real animal-lovers, and if you take your dog in with you they often ask if they can give it a treat or two. Just be prepared for your dog to get into a right frenzy over all the food smells luring them from aisle to aisle - oh, and watch them if you go near the rabbit and guinea pig enclosures!

I went here to buy fish yesterday, staff are very friendly, welcoming and kind. Prices are great…read moreand amazing deals on all the fish. I didn't get the man's name but he answered any questions I had, and even taught me more about other fish. My boyfriend and I had a wonderful time here, the man got his Star Wars books out to show my boyfriend and we all had a chat about tv shows. We will definitely be back to get more fish soon.

Marvellous! I finally found a place that will sell me some terrapins. To be fair, I haven't hunted…read morethat extensively, but in any case, it's always a pleasure to wander into a store and find exactly what you're looking for. The knowledgeable gentleman at Aquatic House kindly explained to me that it would cost around £160 to get my new pet all kitted out, which has sort of put me off, but I admit this seems like a reasonable rate (however, it makes me yearn for an outdoor pond that my £15 terrapin could call home) If you're not a reptile enthusiast, Aquatic House has every marine and tropical fish you can imagine, even those cute little ones that look like Nemo (clown fish, I think?). Aside from potential pets, this shop carries a wide variety of Juwel aquariums and pond supplies, as well.

I popped into this shop to ask the lady some advice about my five new goldfish, which ironically…read moreI'd bought elsewhere, because they seemed to be hiding away and I never saw them. I wanted to find out whether there were any ways I could encourage them out from under the pond plants, and get them a bit tamer. She was very helpful and said she fed her goldfish at the same time each day to get them into a routine (!) and that they are now very confident. By way of saying thank you for her friendly advice, I bought a few treats for my dog - since I hadn't even bought my fish from her. The shop is long and thin, and not particularly big, but they cover most of the basics for cats, hamsters, dogs, rabbits, and most other popular pets - with loads of aquarium-related stuff in stock - and she has her own little dog sat with her behind the counter! Outside they also have some garden plants for sale on a small rack.

You wouldn't know that it was there if you did not walk up or down the same side of the street that…read moreit is on. It is small and useful to all pet fans. They sometimes even have a real puppy, or a dog, or a cat or a kitten. They always have fish in, large or small, or medium sized fish tanks. This shop even has rabbits; gerbils, guinea pigs, mice, and hamsters in cages or rather, some were more like boxes. The staff are friendly and their prices are reasonable enough. There is no real wheel chair access really, as there are many boxes or bits and pieces in a very squashed shop and even more so because of having such a little building to store it all in. The prices are alright and the place is full of many items such as; fish tanks to buy for your own fish, big and small, cat and dog toys, hamster cages, all ranges of different types of animal foods and treats, bowls, and leads, you'll be spoilt for choice here... I recommend it to all pet owners and children...

So I have a few animals, four cats and two dogs. Technically they are my parents so I don't have to…read morefolk out! Luckily we've only needed to take them in for routine jabs. Took my kitten in here most recently to have her neutered. It was a very busy practice so its obviously a popular choice. They gave us the price beforehand so we didn't need to worry about the costs and everything was over and done within a few hours. The staff were super nice and made me feel very relaxed about leaving her in their hands.

This is the Cardiff branch of a small, local mini-chain of four well-equipped veterinary surgeries…read morewith a good local reputation (the others are in Caerphilly, Ystrad Mynach and Pentyrch). This Cardiff branch was actually the first veterinary clinic in Wales to specialise in care for exotic pets, although they also treat other companion animals, of course, including dogs, cats, rabbits and other small furries. Back in the 1990s, the clinic also opened the first 24-hour emergency veterinary service in the UK, V.E.T.S. Ltd, which is based at the same site and shares the clinic's equipment but is now a separate company, used by many veterinary surgeries in and around Cardiff who want to be able to offer their customers round-the-clock surgical and medical attention for their pets.

They have most of the stuff you need in this pet supplies shop. We generally buy things for the…read morecats. We used to have a rabbit (a white rabbit that had aspirations to be a magician's rabbit and thus every so often would disappear). We bought the rabbit in this very shop many years ago. He lived to a very ripe old age and bickered with the guinea pig that we also bought in this shop. The pet supplies are adequate but what is really nice are the baby rabbits and few other creatures. But what is really really nice (if your taste runs to that sort of thing) is that hidden in the back of the shop is Dragon Reptiles a scary place where they have reptilian pets. (See Dragon Reptiles review for more scary details).

Housed at Pugh's Garden Centre, this is a great pet shop and offers an alternative to Pets At Home,…read morewhich is pretty much same regardless of which branch you go to. I think Pampurred Pets is also quite a bit chain, but this is the only branch I've been to. Like Pets At Home, they are big enough to offer some decent promotions such as 3 for 2 or similar deals on dog treats and so on, and they cover foods and accessories for dogs, cats, birds and small animals. What's also nice to know is that they currently sponsor Waggy Tails, a charity based near Bournemouth and Poole that rescues and rehomes dogs who have been abandoned, neglected, mistreated, orphaned or otherwise need a new, loving home. Another handy thing about this store is that - like Pets At Home - it's open on Sundays.

Croesco Veterinary Hospital is an exceptionally busy veterinary practice that inhabits a large…read morebuilding on Witchurch Road in Heath. They are essentially the only veterinary hospital in Cardiff, offering comprehensive health care to domestic animals. The Hospital is equipped to the highest standards and has its own x-ray development and laboratory facilities which means that diagnoses can be made rapidly, minimizing the distress to the animals being treated, and can obviously save lives where conditions could prove fatal if not treated immediately. Thy also have on-call residential nurses to look after animals that require overnight convalescence after operations have been performed, or who need to be monitored for other reasons. They have a few off-road parking spaces out at the front, but there's also a large car park at the rear. All pet owners should know about this hospital. It is definitely the place to take badly injured pets after road accidents, and other potentially fatal traumas. They also own the Penarth Pet Health Centre in Penarth.

What might one want of a veterinarian? That he takes care of your animal? That he's professional,…read moreaccessible and responsive to your personal needs? That he engages with you, his client? That he provides value for money? Were I to score Martin Francis on this basis, even a bit harshly, it would go tick tick tick cross. He's always been spot on with diagnosis and treatment, even sending me home without charge when in a panic I'd dragged our wee terror there with a limp caused by him crashing through a fence, but as it turned out with an immediate visual inspection he'd only got a dead leg so CALM DOWN. He likes the fact that our dog is all bluff and bravado befitting a Jack Russell cross but in fact he's delicate like a little flower - aw poor puppy dog - 'cos he's got allergies and sneezes a lot and over grooms - it's not his fault, he's unhappy because he's uncomfortable so we give him hugs. Ahem. You might guess he humours our misguided anthropomorphic projections whilst remaining pragmatic and reasonably (and proportionately) didactic. However, there's something galling about forking over £50 for a check up for him to simply write a prescription for more steroids (another £6) which all takes a matter of 120 seconds and costs him no more than a green-lipped mussell flavoured doggy treat (most dogs won't touch 'em, so I'm told) and a bit of cleaning up (puppy loses lots of fur due to his malfunctioning endocrine system as a result of steroid use to combat allergies to grass, pollen, dust and dust mites and dust mite feces and his own hair and dirt and floor polish and carpets and biscuit mites - it's endless). Hence cross at the end of my scoring analogy. Bored? Sorry, I'll put this thing to bed. OK, services great, vet great, parking difficult sometimes but no problem, cost extortionate! But then, maybe we've the only 'roid guzzling allergen magnet in Cardiff and it's our own fault for not taking the shitzu when we had the chance. Cruel fate or not, Martin Francis is still a top quality vet.

We were away for two weeks, and Charlotte at Wallace pet boarding had our guinea pig for the…read moreduration. It was all arranged really easily, and very reasonable cost. We particularly appreciated Charlotte's flexiblity in having our guinea for an extra night at short notice, when our flight was delayed. Charlotte was a pleasure to deal with and obviously loves the animals that she cares for. Recommended! Gavin, Cardiff.

From the owner: We are an insured and licensed pet business that provides taylor-made holidays for your pets in our…read morehome. Instead of using dog kennels or a cattery while you are away why not give your pets a stress free break in a home environment. All breeds of dog, cats and other small animals are welcome. Places are highly limited so your pets will have our full care and attention during their stay and be treated like family. We update you daily with photos of your pet's adventures on our facebook page! Prices are available on our website.

This has the largest selection of reptiles in the area and located out on Cowbridge Road its easy…read moreto find with parking out front. It doesn't look too appealing from the outside, and considering how much I hate snakes I didn't have too much fun inside but then my boyfriend had agreed to look after his brothers snake while he was away so I had to chance! Carefully avoiding looking too closely in the tanks I did notice that it was very clean and the tanks seemed quite large. They also had a nice friendly selection of fish. Not really knowing much about looking after the snake, the staff really helped us out. I wasn't too thrilled to be buying the food for her but at least it was just the once! Anyway they have a selection of snakes, lizards, tortoises, scorpions, spiders and more.

Fab place for getting all your food supplies for your unusual pets. They've usually offers on the…read moreboxes of live food (3 for a fiver - you can mix and match). It's great to just take a look at all the pets on sale too - they seem well cared for and the place is always clean - the only off putting thing for me is the bins (un-lidded) with humongous crickets/locusts inside. Not much parking but its never really busy so we've not had a problem on that score yet.