The Mystic Pet Shop

06/26/2025

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06/26/2025

CBD is a fantastic tool for managing pet stress.

06/26/2025

06/26/2025

Love my locals.

06/26/2025

Beautiful. Knot So Loud is the best.

I’ve found the pot of gold! 🌈

06/25/2025

It is to hot for Spot.
Limited exposure today. Skip the walk.

06/24/2025

Girl, drink that ice cold drink. Holy heat wave.

06/23/2025

It is HOT

06/22/2025

When Tyler Austin Harper first took up the extreme sport of “wetsuiting,” the advice he received from another fisherman was simple: Don’t. https://theatln.tc/zOwTCbTe

This form of saltwater fishing involves wearing a wetsuit and wading or swimming out to offshore rocks—almost exclusively at night and often during storms—to access deeper waters and faster currents where massive striped bass hopefully await. Catching these “stripers” requires dedication and sleep deprivation. “If this sounds insane, that’s because it is,” Harper wrote in 2024. “Wetsuiters are all mad, and they always have been.”

Who exactly invented wetsuiting is a matter of substantial debate—but it’s generally agreed that by the early 1960s, a handful of these wetsuit-donning fishermen were swimming out into the churning surf off Montauk’s shores, hoping for a shot at the big one. Today, the tradition continues: “Most dedicated wetsuiters are out in the surf multiple nights a week,” Harper writes. “Some junkies log 100 or more nights a year.”

The sport is alluring and addictive. More than a few wetsuiters have lost marriages and jobs in their desperate quest for fish. Some have lost their lives. There’s also nothing like it: “When you feel the bracing hit of a 30- or 40-pound striped bass … and you’re trying to hold your rock and hold your rod and weather the sea that wants to claim you until suddenly, as if by magic, you see a tail the size of a broom head,” Harper writes, “in that moment, the months of pain are all worth it.”

🎨: Peter Fisher

06/22/2025

We're fond of our route one space, weeds and all. So are the pollinators.

06/22/2025

Cuteness overload.