1.1 What is Pet Shop?
A pet store or pet shop is a retail business which sells different kinds of animals. Pet stores also sell pet food, supplies, and accessories.
A shop where domestic animals and domestic animal products are on sale means an establishment where companion animals are bought, sold, exchanged, or offered for sale or exchange to the general public.
Pet stores commonly sell • fish for home • small birds such as parakeets • fancy rats • hamsters • lizard • snakes • tortoises • fresh water turtles • mice • tarantulas, • fish • frogs, • salamanders • toads, • caecilians and other animals used as live food (called feeders) for reptiles and fish are also usually sold. Less common in pet stores are larger mammals such as dogs and cats. In the UK and many other countries, dogs and cats are not sold at pet stores.
Exotic pets such as Sugar Gliders, large snakes and large parrots are available at some pet shops. Because the care of these types of animals is difficult and expensive, these are most often carried only in stores that specialize in exotic animals.
1.2 Pet Shop Business in Katabon:
Pet shop business is no longer a new business concept in Bangladesh. In the early 1991 pet shop business has started its journey from katabon in Dhaka city. Pet shop business has started with a few numbers of business men to establish a new business sector. Pet shop market in katabon is the property under the authority of Dhaka University. Dhaka University has given the permission to start the business in present market place. From the small position, there is now almost twenty shops in katabon which are consists birds, dogs, fish and many others categorized animals. The shop opens at 8:00 AM and ends at 8:00 PM. There are several types of pet shop in Katabon. The main types of pets are birds, dogs, monkey, rats, genipap, tortoises, toads, fish, cats and many others