Be honest, when you heard the name Sceptre Pets and Hobbies, you imagined a shop with rabbits and cockatoos on one side and people playing TTRPGS on the other. Just us? Oh well, it doesn’t matter anyway, because animal welfare is too high on this shop’s checklist to mix Guinee pigs and gamers.
“A lot of people come in for their pet supplies,” says Ryan. “We don’t sell pets themselves, because they wouldn’t get much chance to rest, since the hobby side encompasses tabletop gaming.”
With supplies for pets (“Birds, dogs, cats, small animals like hamsters, rats, mice and anything that you can domesticate and keep as a pet,” Ryan lists) stacked alongside the hobby gear, is there space for playing games? “It’s quite a big shop and we have…