Lexington Pet Place, Inc.

08/14/2024

Retail Pet Store Closing! All aquatics 25-50% off until gone! Discontinuing all sales of fish, fish food, supplies, medications, and supplies! Get while the gettin’ is good!

08/01/2024

I’d like to think our local kids have been raised better and know that we literally know everyone’s parents. That being said…if you know these young kleptomaniacs, do let someone know.

07/21/2024

Due to staffing shortage this week, we’ll be closed today for animal care catch-up. Soooo many pets, not enough people. We apologize for the inconvenience! Adopt, don’t shop!

07/20/2024

We have three ADORABLE kittens ready for adoption!! One has been adopted, but they couldn’t be cuter or sweeter! They want to be big lap-cats when they grow up. Dewormed, flea treatments, and first distemper vaccinations completed and perfectly well mannered with exquisite litterbox skills. Come meet these babies today!

We do not discuss fees/costs online. Must come in to adopt. Indoor ONLY, spays/neuters mandatory.

07/18/2024

Teamwork makes the dream work!!
Super(worm) dee duper!

07/10/2024

Oh, hi, law abiding citizens! We’re currently CLOSED during the active emergency credible bomb situation and will attempt to reopen once the all clear is provided. Do NOT attempt to approach West Washington or West Nelson Streets or the W&L campus for ANY reason. You will be kindly rejected.
Thanks!!

07/09/2024

Yay, critters! Big, little, hairy, scaly, floofy, and soggy. We’ve got ‘em all!

06/27/2024

We said farewell to Snowball the Old Man Gerbil yesterday, June 26th, 2024. We received him as a rescue that didn’t get along with his brother on March 25th of 2019! He was already about a year and a half old and was considered to be past middle-aged. He was approximately six and a half years old! He would have a sluggish day and fresh blueberries would rejuvenate him amazingly! If you’ve ever met Mr Snowball, drop a line and know he was super-loved!

06/21/2024

Definitely something fishy happening here!
HUGE 18-24” Amazon Plecos are in! Ya’ll gotta come see these dinosaurs, for real.

Our resident feeder-tank crawfish is also out today after we sold out of feeder comets! 🥰

06/20/2024

If you book and do not show up for your grooming appointment, you will NOT get rebooked for the foreseeable future. Period. We’re booked for several weeks and the pervasive and obnoxious no-shows will not be tolerated.

We adore and hugely appreciate our consistent, courteous and compassionate pet parent clients. You are the backbone of not only our grooming business, but of the healthy and comfortable pet community. 🥰

There are two damned good groomers here that I will support to the absolute best of my ability. There *are* other groomers out there that may tolerate the no-show nonsense. We are not them. Book, confirm, and then get to your appointments on time. If you cannot, for whatever reason, get to your appointment, have the common decency to tell us. There are MANY other animals that would love to get your spots.

06/12/2024

It was a good vet visit with Dr Snuffer and staff (as usual!) at Hanging Rock Animal Hospital! Six sugar gliders were inspected inside and out, we have a neuter appointment in the works, and a couple joeys on the way. Oops! So much for all-neutered males. 🫣
Anyway, one neutered male and two females are currently available for adoption, as we’ll have to hang onto the rest for about… six months. 🤦🏼‍♀️
You should still come meet everyone. They’re so freakin’ cute. Here’s some snapshots!

06/10/2024

This is tremendous news! PLEASE, everyone, get those kitties spayed and neutered! Mary and the terrific crew at Furever Friends Lodge work so hard for these precious animals. Do your part and reach out for this assistance if you have cats in need!
And donate, if you can! Now or at any point in the future. 🥰🥰🥰

Today, June 10th begins a new project for Furever Friends Lodge. Today we launch our new low cost spay and neuter program for Rockbridge County, and our cities of Buena Vista, Lexington, Glasgow, Natural Bridge- NB Station, and The Goshen - Raphine area. In order to do this we need your help with funding. We will launch our new GO Fund Me initiative to raise $15, 000 to make this possible. Please consider donating. We will soon be holding two auctions as well. One ONLINE and one LIVE auction to raise funds. We will also be looking for and applying for any grants that will help our goal of spaying/neutering as many cats as possible. We will be working with 2 vets at this time, Animal Clinic of Rockbridge and Wellpet in Lexington. Both great vets who know the danger of not having this program available in our community. We hope in the next few weeks to add additional local vets to the program. In order to apply for our program you need to call the new Furever Friends Phone number of 540 460 8229 and leave a message. One of our volunteers will call you back. Please be patient and kind. We can offer limited approvals in the beginning. Please SHARE OUR NEWS!! We're excited to continue in a new way to help our furry cat friends. Here is our link to donate https://gofund.me/550fe904

06/09/2024

So. Much. Filter. Media. ZeoCarb, ammonia remover, carbon, sponges, all sizes, come and get it at insanely great prices! (These are for media bag holding types and canister filters. No frames or anything on any of these.)
Mostly AquaClear, some Fluval.
Take some, take all. Make your own media bags or whatever. We have bags, too!

06/02/2024

Just gonna put this out for the 100th time. We are 100% rescue. We do NOT buy animals aside from feeders and fish. We accept any and all animals (other than dogs) as space and resources allow, regardless of history, health or circumstances.

We make animals’ lives better. THAT is who we do what we do for. Finding qualified and prepared individuals and families who see the animals as family members and not playthings and who also have the animal’s best interests in mind is our passion.

**TL-DR: Do five seconds of research. Don’t be ignorant. **

If you want a toy for the kids that they’ll tire of, outgrow, neglect and abandon as soon as sports seasons, school friends, relationships, graduation, vacation, or newer and cooler things creep in… PetSmart, Petco, and other shops in it for the money will sell you whatever you think you want, however you want it, to the lowest corporately available standard. Take the guinea pig home and stick it in an aquarium, they don’t care. They’ll just add another animal to next week’s livestock order and report your expense as income and a positive statistic that encourages them to do that over and over and over.

ONE single Google search taking TWO whole seconds of typing will very often get you the very LEAST amount of information required to ethically keep an animal you’re interested in. We don’t make this crap up, it’s call science and ethics of animal keeping. Being, at the very LEAST, someone that cared enough to take two seconds to do ONE teensy bit of research.

Please click on this link from the Humane Society of the United States. We don’t even require this many square feet for two guinea pigs and have been blasted to our faces about how ridiculous our requirements are. “Never mind, we’ll go to PetSmart. They sell all the stuff we want. If they sell it, it must be good. They wouldn’t LIE about stuff like that.”

Haha. Corporate marketing campaigns. 😂💩

https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/guinea-pig-housing #:~:text=Two%20guinea%20pigs%3A%207.5%20square”.

05/29/2024

Oh, the sweet faces!!!
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We have soooo many great animals in need of loving FOREVER families! Come meet them all and apply to adopt today!!
Blue Ridge Reptile Rescue

05/25/2024

All gave some. Some gave all. 🇺🇸
Land of the free because of the brave. 🇺🇸

We are CLOSED Sunday and Monday to spend time with loved ones. Thank a veteran and remember the fallen.

05/23/2024

We’ve got GIANT hornworms 50% OFF while supplies last! These would be for immediate consumption, as they’re as big as they’ll get before pupating and have no additional food.
Come and get ‘em!

05/22/2024

Here’s a little goldfish restock o’clock for ya! We’ve been out of algae wavers and that’s betrayal, so we hope this mends up our fishy friendships! 😅

05/15/2024

Meet bodacious Boba!

You may have seen him when he came to us years ago as a tiny kitten, but BAM! He’s certainly not tiny anymore! 😅

This hunka, hunka fluffin’ fluff is in need of a new forever home where playtime, exercise, and a healthy and trim diet are a regular part of lovin’s. He doesn’t seem to care about other cats, but isn’t a fan of dogs. He makes soggy biscuits, talks a LOT with his raspy meow-meow and wants to steal the show.

He has a clean bill of health (aside from being too tubby), and a fresh rabies and distemper vaccine. He’s neutered, litter trained, and ready to go!

If you have a hole in your life in the shape of a 22 pound furball, we have just the thing! Come meet him and want to take him home!

05/12/2024

Us moms are manning the fort today and wanna do fun stuff with our families. We’ll be in from noon until…we’re done. Pop in early for your feeders and fab finds because girls just wanna have fun!
See you soon!
(Remember, we’re also closed on Mondays.)

05/10/2024

Cuteness abounds here! We have so many deserving rescue pets that would love to be a part of your lives!
Stop in today to meet them and apply to adopt!!

05/08/2024

Who’s ready for summer?!? Spring fling-off the funky furs and step fresh into the sunny season!
Book with Megan Tuesday-Saturday and Rayne (who’s easing back from a joyous maternity leave!) Tuesdays and Thursdays! Call 540-461-8314 today to get on the books!

05/07/2024

Ya’ll asked. We got in some big ol’ suckers.
Also…these are sensational specimens for anyone that’s never seen one growing up. (This isn’t even as big as they get.)
3-16” Amazon Plecos!

05/01/2024

Lookin’ like Dobby.

"Dobby never meant to kill. He only meant to maim, or seriously injure.”

Adorably. Adopters beware. 😅

04/22/2024

Good morning, fine people!
We will be operating with a new schedule for hours of operation. We are now CLOSED for business on Mondays, but the remainder of our schedule is the same. We’ve updated our website to reflect these changes. We are still available here on Facebook for special orders and to book grooming appointments!

04/17/2024

Well, it’s not been a fantastic week, folks. We’ll open at noon today. Sooooo sorry for the inconvenience. I hope to be up on my own feet again in the next few days, so that should help a lot!
**Go check out the farmer’s market and buy a newspaper from James up on Main Street! **

04/15/2024

Everyone is wonky today. Sorry, but we’ll try again tomorrow! Thank you for your patience!!

04/08/2024

Edited: like the eclipse itself will be, the glasses are gone for another 20 years. We hope everyone has a great afternoon and don’t let the lack of glasses stop you from coming and seeing all of these great people and pets!!!

In case you missed it:
We’ve got certified viewing glasses available for a donation to the reptile rescue! Limit one per person. We will be trying to get our own look, so if the shop is closed when you pop in, we’ll be back shortly.

04/03/2024

For those in need of an affordable upgrade!

04/02/2024

Pants for pooches? Please help us collaborate with Hatterwick to stock the denim department!

LOVE Dogs!? Got Denim?

We’d love to give back to our local SPCA and seek your help and support. We’ll be creating a section within the shop over the next few days/weeks (however long it takes), and pack it full of Denim. There might even be a special odor eliminating candle in the works too, but back to the task at hand. We’ll scour shops for cool vintage denim, wholesale new denim and ask you all for DONATED Denim. When this denim sells, we’ll donate 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

50% of the Profit to our local Rockbridge County SPCA 🐶🐕🐾

And we’ll have a special thank you for your donation too!

What we’ll be looking for:

Gently used with a lot of life left 👉🏻 Denim Jeans, Shorts, Skirts, Overalls & Jackets! Sorry guys, we’ll be keeping it just for the ladies for now, the shop isn’t that big.

We are open Wednesday-Saturday Noon-5pm and will start collecting donations immediately. We hope to have this section up and running in the next few weeks!

Please ask any questions here or send us an email to [email protected]

Thank you!!!!