{"id":307119,"date":"2025-07-31T17:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307119\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:27:16","slug":"family-run-pet-shop-shuts-after-more-than-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307119\/","title":{"rendered":"Family-run pet shop shuts after more than 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Customer of 50 years Jo Cunningham said she would miss the shop &#8220;unbelievably&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is nothing like Pet Needs anywhere else on the Wirral,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is an amazing, unique shop. The personal service, the deliveries, the advice, you can just pop in whatever your need to ask them and they are here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another customer Chris Fog said: &#8220;They are so knowledgeable in what they do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a personal sense of nothing is too much trouble for them and I&#8217;d like to think that they&#8217;ve become friends as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described the closure as &#8220;the end of an era&#8221; and wished the couple a &#8220;wonderful retirement&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Customer of 50 years Jo Cunningham said she would miss the shop &#8220;unbelievably&#8221;. &#8220;There is nothing like Pet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-307119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114949026282404422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}