Safari Stan's Pet Center

The staff here are so friendly and welcoming, and they clearly have great affection for all the animals. I only wish they offered pet adoptions rather than dogs from breeders. I always have to drag my kids out of here ("No, we are not getting a kitten/ferret/puppy"), but I have a big smile on my face

I went to this pet store sometime in august and purchased a holland lop. I was told it was a healthy female. Instead, about a month later, the rabbit was expressing very bad respiratory symptoms and when I brought it to the emergency vet in north haven, the vet told me the rabbit was actually a male and had two infections (syphilis and pasteurella) and that I bought the rabbit this way. It just took some time for the symptoms to show. But I couldn’t give the rabbit back or anything since it was past the warranty window. $2k later and I’m still trying to clear this rabbit of the chronic infections. I highly do not recommend purchasing pets from this store, unless you check for any infections and verify the gender yourself.

On 6/20/2020 around 1:00 I came into Stan’s (first time) desperately looking for adult crickets for my breeding program. My crickets were all too old. My praying mantids were born and I needed cricket like yesterday. Petco sells sick crickets, they all die every time. I had tried anyway and all eventually died so I tried Stan’s Safari. The young girl who assisted me was great. They did have some adults and she was willing to grab as many as she could and she did! Petco wouldn’t do that for me. So thank you to Stan’s for taking care of me. By the way, only a few had died, they are all thriving, mating and right now the females are laying eggs! But I must give you only 4 stars because I do not like the fact that you sell puppies- that supports overbreeding while there are thousand of great dogs in shelters and foster who need homes. I wouldn’t even look that way while I was in the store. Please reconsider this part of your business. *****August 2021 review-(Woodbridge) Thank you Tony, Gianna, and Cole for helping me out and making sure I got what I came for-healthy adult crickets. Especially Cole, thanks for letting me go through them and trusting me. Because of the healthy stock of crickets and employees who looked out, I was able to get females laying like crazy and did two egg nests for 1 week, each amounting in plenty of baby crickets. And they’re thriving. Got plenty of food now for my mantids and can make more if needed. ****July 2023… Returned to Stan’s like I do every summer to get adults for breeding. These will be for my mantids I catch in the first week of October and keep as pets. I was blown away by these crickets. They are a different species but I don’t know what kind. The adult females are wingless and the adult males have very short wings. I wasn’t even sure they were adults but they looked like adults-the females had fully formed barbs and many looked swollen with eggs. But all the female adult, brown pet store crickets ALWAYS have wings. So I bought some, brought them home and made an egg nest. Those females ARE adults and were laying eggs like crazy. Right now app. 300 have hatched with more to come!! Still want to know what species they are but at least I can always count on Stan’s to have what I need!!!! The mantids will be eating good!!! 🦗🦗🦗🦗 Thank you to the staff that day for assisting me and allowing me to get my own crickets!!! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!!! Pics below are some females laying eggs and just some of the babies, now small pinheads.

Go to a reputable AKC breeder (who will charge you a fraction of what this place charges) or adopt. The only way to put puppy mills out of business is to avoid establishments like these. No demand means no need to breed more sick dogs!

Great place to get your loving Pet. We got Winston three years ago. He has added so much love and happiness to our life.