Our mission

Here at The Nature Nook, we aim to bring you high quality ethically sourced pet supplies. Pop into our Paignton store, at 1-5 Totnes Road, TQ4 5JX

Welcome to The Nature Nook

We know a lot of pet shops claim they’re different from all the others – but we really mean it! We promise that all of our products are safe, wholesome, and healthy for the pets they are intended for, and we will only stock animals that come from reputable breeders.

The Nature Nook isn’t just about pets. We firmly believe that having pets is a great way of reconnecting with animals – and with the natural world in general – so we’ll also be selling products to nurture the wildlife in your own back garden.

Make sure to follow our blog, which will feature regular updates on our journey as we bring our vision of The Nature Nook to life, along with advice on how to care for your pets, conservation issues from around the world, and amazing facts about some of the wild animals that we share our planet with!

Recent Blog Posts

British Wildlife of the Week: Fly Agaric

If you ask a child to draw a toadstool or mushroom, chances are they will produce something that looks very much like the fly agaric. This distinctive species has a thick white stem topped with…
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Vampire Bats: A Taste for Blood

Humans have always feared animals that roamed the dark. Anything that conducts its business after sundown must surely be malevolent in nature. Bats, in particular, have been held in very low esteem for centuries, especially…
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British Wildlife of the Week: Lamprey

At the bottom of a freshwater stream in Britain, a thin, elongated fish undulates through the water. It looks a bit like an eel, but closer examination reveals it is something much different, and much…
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Caring for Your Ghost Mantis

As Halloween approaches, some say the veil between the worlds becomes thinner, that apparitions and spirits can cross over and venture into our very homes. But this Halloween, you don’t have to believe in ghouls,…
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The Burying Beetle’s Guide to Parenting

Halloween is almost upon us, so The Nature Nook will be looking at creatures with more macabre and sinister behaviours than usual. We’ll be starting off proceedings with this insect, a burying beetle from the…
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British Wildlife of the Week: Bearded Tit

An animal’s name can often give you information about where the species can be found in the wild, what distinguishing features it might have and/or what family or genus it belongs to. The Himalayan red-flanked…
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