Saint John pet owners can now bring their four-legged friends into nearly three dozen businesses ranging from galleries to clothing shops in the uptown area.
It’s a recently launched pet-friendly intiative by Uptown Saint John and executive director Nancy Tissington says it’s something she did in her previous career in Halifax and it was very well received.
“It’s been just in the works over the last three or four weeks and then we made the order,and put in the dog bowls, so we have some nice stainless steel dog bowls, we have nice decals for folks to put on their windows,” says Tissington. “So it’s very clear that people will be able to say I know I can go into that store or that business.”
Tissington says it’s tapping into the market of people who own pets uptown.
“They can feel free to walk in, to browse to see something that they may have seen in the window. There may actually be a purchase that happens.”
These are the businesses that have signed on as of Wednesday:
Exchange on Germain
Heartbreak Boutique
The Urban Shoe Myth
Cobalt Art Gallery
Trinity Galleries
Buckland Merrifield Gallery
Backstreet Records
Fundy Coins and Collectables
Dave Shoots Bookseller
Heroes’ Beacon
One Princess
Scheherazade Books and Music
Port City Pawn Shop
Craftology
Howard’s Convenience
Picaroons General Store
Java Moose
Korner Grocery
Liquid Gold
Saint John Ale House (patio)
Elwood’s Wood Lab
Fishy Chores
The Framing Factory
Good Fibrations
Hayward and Warwick
Keirstead’s Flower Shop
Kitchen Craft Used Furniture & Appliances
On and Off Court
Piece O’Cake
Spurs
Pristine
Vogue Optical
Your Dollar Store With More
