Family Pet & Aquarium of Nashua

Our experience in adopting our puppy was okay. The people were great there and helpful. I did feel bad that we had to wait a week to bring her home. Because the cage spaces were so small. But people need to get real on boycotting places when it comes to living breathing beings. Would you boycott adopting a little boy or girl because you didn’t like where they came from. The government needs to shut these down but we can’t deny them homes, because they need love. If Nashua Pet didn’t give them love, someone else would be selling them and they could be worse and I’ve seen it.

Please, do not promote this business. I’d like to give negative stars, actually. I still think about my dog everyday since she past. I got my dog here in 2009. Unfortunately, she past away in 2011 — not even 2 years old yet! :(The biopsy stated that my poor puppy had developed a cancer mass in her stomach around year 1 of age. Even more unfortunate, I did not see symptoms until it was too late — weight loss, staring off into the distance, vomiting, etc. — to which I brought her to the vet. They ran all sorts of (expensive) tests to finally conclude that the cancer had advanced so rapidly around all her vital organs, that it was hopeless at this point.
After she passed, I called up Family Pet & Aquarium of Nashua urging them to contact the other owners that had purchased the other pups from the same litter so that they could hopefully get their dogs examined for the same sickness and catch it before it’s too late. I could only leave this message with the cashier at the time and had asked nicely for the store owner to call me back. I NEVER received a call back, not even after weeks of leaving messages. They ignored all of my phone calls and messages. ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING? OVERBREEDING PUPPY MILLS? Even though I do not regret having my precious dog in my life for only a short amount of time, DON’T make the same mistake as I did by doing business with this establishment!
PS — If you purchased a dog here in 2009 that was an Olde English Bulldog and Boston Terrier mix, reach out to me for those tests! Just in-​case. My experience was traumatizing :(

PLEASE READ: This pet store masks themselves as a cut above other pet stores but this is untrue. I was naïve and I should have known better. THEY SELL PUPPY MILL DOGS HERE! They give you pedigree paperwork making it seem that these dogs are coming from established breeders, but this is untrue. I researched the specific name of my dog’s breeder under the USDA website to determine that they’ve had several reports where the dogs were extremely underweight and sick looking. Several times, the establishment had to be shut down due to the conditions that the dogs were living in. All of the information for the breeder you are buying from on the USDA website is public knowledge, keep that in mind. I spent over five grand the second month that I got my dog because they thought he had parvo, but in reality, he had a very serious case of giardia from being transported in dirty conditions and at too young of an age. He nearly died and I can imagine that more than just I have experienced this. My dog is now 4 years old and I love him more than anything but I am sickened that he came from a puppy mill and I supported that kind of practice. Do not be lured in by cute puppies. Do your research before you spend your money because there are plenty of puppies out there that come from local, reputable breeders not puppy mills. Puppy mills should be shut down forever.

This store is absolutely unsanitary and needs to be shut down. The dogs are not taken care of and I would only purchase the animals to rescue them from that hell hole. For example, my first time going the store I saw the employees feeding the dogs scraps of Cheetos. Today I went to the store it was very slow and you could tell there were not many customers that day and I was interested in a dog and I had asked to hold and play with. And the employee replied «she’s been out too many times today» this was so incredibly rude because I wanted to 1. Get the dog out of the cage 2. Decide if I was interested in purchasing. The girl at the cashier just didn’t want to deal with it and she was so unhelpful in the store while she gossiped to another co-​worker. These people are clearly uneducated about the growth of the k-​9s because puppies need fresh air and more space to run around than a 2×2 cage that is covered in wet newspaper from their urine!

Hmmm, wondering if I am wasting my time writing this review as all the other reviews have been removed, but here goes. Unlike many of the other reviewers, I found nothing quaint or friendly about this store. My daughter purchased a kitten there about five years ago, mainly because his cost had been reduced several times as he got older and less «kittenish»; she feared he would be euthanized once his cuteness expired. I found the people working there to be odd, just a little off. The cat, now grown, is odd as well and has «issues». I’m certain he was either abused or taken from his mother far too soon, which, in itself, is a form of abuse. Sorry, but they’re a business and they’re all about the benjamins. If you’re buying food or supplies, terrific, but get your animals from a shelter — don’t encourage stores like this to keep churning them out.

I recently contacted this pet store about buying a puppy. The owner was helpful and informative. We plan to go see the puppy later tonight. I will update my review after that!