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Mail Order Animal Bizop from 1972

By on January 6, 2013 in Biz Ops / Humor

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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  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    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!

  • http://www.dogcratesolutions.com Donna White

    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.

  • http://www.callfresh.com Joe

    Amadillos carry leprosy!! Could you imagine?

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