SQUIRE’S Garden Centre in Badshot Lea held a special ‘Pets and Aquatics’ event to celebrate the opening of its new Pets and Aquatics Centre.

Families and children came to meet furry pets and scaly reptiles, and some brave volunteers even held and stroked the spiders.

Children could paint a bunny moneybox, and people came to get their dogs micro-chipped and to for free veterinary advice from Carthcart and Winn Veterinary Clinic.

People can visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiCJADqt_A8 for more information.

Squire’s Pets and Aquatics Centre is open every day.

And on Thursdays in term-time there’s a free ‘Meet Our Furry Friends’ session from 9.30am to 10.30am, and from 4pm to 5pm, where people can stroke the animals and learn more about them.