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Mail Order Animal Bizop from 1972
Flickr user BryantSpokane scanned and posted a page from a 1972 Stromberg’s Chicks & Pets Unlimited catalog. Stromberg’s apparently used to mail-order live chickens, chinchillas, ferrets, armadillos, skunks, badgers, beavers, possums, prairie dogs, and other critters. This particular page highlights the money making aspects of owning fur-bearing animals.
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Angela Shupe on October 10th, 2010 2:15 pm
Oh my, I couldn’t imagine wanting to own an opossum or badger. Well, I couldn’t imagine wanting to buy most of those animals. Also, $125 for the basic pet chinchilla sounds like a lot of money for 1972.
It’s pretty amazing what they were allowed to ship by mail back in the day!
Donna White on October 15th, 2010 10:28 am
As a seller of pet supplies, I can’t even imagine what I would sell to house a badger. Even a bear backs off from these “kings of the forest”. Having had the opportunity of being to a chinchilla farm, raising a kit fox to adulthood and feeding a wild weasel, I can see the allure of having something “different”, but I am glad there are now regulations in place. They are not very tamable. The only one of these animals that seems to have weathered the pet market are the ferrets.
Joe on November 14th, 2010 8:58 am
Amadillos carry leprosy!! Could you imagine?
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