Smart Tips from Our Smart Cat Family
Pets Choice is proud to carry Pioneer Pet in Merrimack, New Hampshire. In the late 1990’s Betsy Lipscomb, a cat behaviorist, cat lover and founder of SmartCat® understood that people surrendered their cats to shelters because they didn’t know how to change unwanted behaviors. Cat owners were unhappy with cats using furniture and carpets to do what came natural to them –scratching. Most thought de-clawing was the only answer, it is not! For Betsy, this was a call to action. She started Cats International, a free hotline to help people solve their cat behavior issues. For years Betsy fielded thousands of calls from desperate cat owners looking for solutions. Still on her mission today you can visit www.catsinternational.org to learn about humane solutions for cat behavioral problems.
Early on Betsy began gathering wooden fence posts from her farm in Wisconsin. She wrapped them in sisal rope and mounted them on sturdy wood bases. Her sole purpose of making these posts was to send them to pet parents who needed help with scratching behaviors. People were amazed to learn that the scratching post solved their problems. These posts became vastly popular and soon Betsy was making up to 50 a month by hand.
- Cat Nip
- Peek-a-Prize Toy
- Bootsie’s Bunk Bed and Playroom
- Peek-and-Play Toy Box
- Eddie Eraser
- Replacement Balls for Toy
- Frank and Fifi Flatmouse
- Rainbow Ralph
What Customers Are Saying
We love our customers from Merrimack areas around Goffstown, Litchfield, Amherst, Milford, Hollis, Bedford, Manchester, Nashua, Mount Vernon, & more!
223 trusted reviews
This store is an eye opener for me. I would never guess there was so much stuff for our pets. All kinds of food, a wide range of accessories and supplies. The staff are super friendly and helpful. Personally, I am a fish guy, and that's a specialty area they leave for other shops to claim. But if you have a dog or cat, this place has everything you could dream of.
Super friendly and helpful. I took my husky for a bath because he gets sooo anxious at the groomers, and made a mess w all his shedding and the team was so kind friendly and understanding. Thank you!