January 28, 2012

Pet Supermarket at Perryhill Place

Posted to Area Attractions, Denise Haviland

I recently ventured over to Pet Supermarket to find a ball that my Australian Shepard couldn’t bite a hole in (I am a dreamer). It is a great store with lots of accessories for our canine, feline, avian, etc. friends. This prompted me to talk to LeRoy McEntire, a commercial broker with Alfa Realty who recently leased this space…

“Have you ever noticed no matter how bad the economy or how tough times might be we always take care of our PETS!

Just prior to Christmas, Pet Supermarket opened up at Perryhill Place Shopping Center at the corner of Perryhill and Carmichael Road.

The interesting thing is PET SUPERMARKET doesn’t sell dogs and cats. In fact, most pet stores these days don’t sell pets… they sell pet accessories. The discretionary income spent on our pets is interesting to me. Frankly, I would consider this expenditure a little on the ridiculous side until I reflect on my own situation. My family currently “houses” four cats (only one was purchase all others are rescue felines), one snake, one lizard, and five horses.

At one time we had four dogs, but slowly and sadly all of our old dogs have passed away and I thought thankfully we were out of the dog business. After all, we do have two kids out of the house and we are down to one.

My college student daughter bought “herself” a puppy over the summer. I pointed out I didn’t think college dorms allowed puppies. I was curious why she was calling this animal her dog? Two of our cats arrived being rescued by the same daughter, and I don’t even LIKE cats! I have one mammoth gray tabby from Lake Martin, and another fat calico from college. Now don’t get me wrong I like animals, but WC FIELDS used to say anybody who hates dogs and children is not all bad, and I tend to think WC wasn’t half wrong.

Let me take a brief aside here… do you know the term PUPPY DOG SALE? I have been taught through the years various sales techniques. The assumptive sale, the close on a negative sale, the hand on the door knob sale… but the strongest sale may be the PUPPY DOG SALE. Imagine a puppy dog salesman convinces a family to take a puppy home for the “weekend for a trail run.” He knows that the kids will forget about the cute little creature by Sunday… but the parent will have fallen in love… Here comes WILLIE.

Sure enough I was less then excited when my daughter said she had rescued a pound puppy in Nashville and was bring the dog home… but it was her dog she had even named the puppy RUFUS (a fine name except my only living Uncle has the same name and he likes it himself. Beside imagine calling out RRROOOOFUUSS in the neighborhood).
No, this black and brown prize with a ridiculous curled up tail is a WILLIE. The puppy dog sale worked to perfection. My wife fell completely in love with the dog even though we need another animal like we need tooth decay….and that gets us back to PETSUPER MARKET… Willie’s special puppy food, Willie’s various chew toys (including most of our furniture), Willie’s bed, Willie’s personalized collar… Yep we are living proof that Montgomery NEEDS pet stores!"