TORTIS

Tortoise

Here's someone you haven't met or heard of before,

COOKIE MONSTER.

Cookie Monster is our African Spurred Tortoise we imported from Spain shortly after her hatching about 5 years ago i think.

In those days surprise, surprise we ran a pet shop in Dundalk the North East of ireland.

We set up in 2001 as Dundalk Aquariums & Aquatic Supplies in Bridge St., Dundalk during the heart of the Foot & Mouth Crisis.

It did so well we upgraded to Williamson's Mall & Mega Pets 8 months later. In MegaPets version1 we did very well, now importing our own tropical fish from malaysia, africa, singapore & china, our quarantine fish room was 150 x 20 gallons, we had Penang Discus & Malawi & Tanganikan cichlids, it was heaven for a fishophile. We kept small animals, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, chinchillas, pet birds, african greys, cockatoos, canaries, budgies, finches & then exotic reptiles....

First we bought off a pair of reptile dealers, Martin & Paddy from Tyrone, who sold us out to their competion fairly quickly, later we learned to buy direct & cheaper hence COOKIE MONSTER who i bought for myself direct from a farm in Spain.

Soon we decided to get an even bigger premises for MegaPets and we took another unit in the Shopping Centre, even bigger and spent a fortune creating an EXOTIC ANIMAL ROOM a sort of small town zoo for displays and teducational tours of our diverse exotics. We took in an investor & foolishly despite teething problems pressed on.

Well yes it all went pear shaped, we indeed are not business people as we were so often told, just animal lovers.

Well we learned a lot!

We enjoyed caring for the many animals the wonderful fish & reptiles & small animals!

We learned you can sell PUPPIES FROM YOUR PETSHOP FOR YEARS & YEARS, that you buy in by the litter for cheap.... if you are a certain person, well respected in the IKC & KC, with a famous prefix known for Cruft's level Fox Terriers & Lakelands....a judge also i fear, may have judged Glens too, & i assure you what does this man know about glens???????

Harry O'Donoghue

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