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Pet Supplies in Wichita: Food, Treats & Pond Fish All in One Stop

Need pet supplies in Wichita without driving to the edge of town? Mr. Mc’s Market keeps a Pets section stocked with the basics — dog food, cat food, treats, leashes, beds, and a few things the big-box stores won’t carry.

What’s in the Pets Aisle

Dog

  • Dry food in standard sizes
  • Wet food and pouches
  • Treats, rawhides, chews
  • Collars, leashes, harnesses
  • Flea and tick treatments

Cat

  • Dry food and kibble
  • Wet food in cans
  • Litter and litter boxes
  • Toys and scratching pads

Small Animals

  • Hay and pellet food for rabbits and guinea pigs
  • Bedding
  • Treats

Fish & Pond

  • Goldfish and feeder fish
  • Tank supplies — food, conditioner, gravel
  • Pond fish and pond treatments (see our Pond section for more)

Why People Come to Mr. Mc’s for Pet Supplies

  • Right in the neighborhood. Save the drive.
  • No membership needed. Walk in, buy what you need, walk out.
  • Live fish on hand. Most grocery stores don’t carry feeders or pond stock. We do.
  • One-trip shopping. Pet food, your dinner, fishing tackle, and tobacco — same store.

Need Something We Don’t Stock?

If there’s a brand or product you want that’s not on the shelf, ask. We re-order weekly and can usually grab specific items on the next truck. That’s the advantage of a neighborhood store — we listen to what you actually buy.

Stop In

Come see the Pets aisle for yourself. Real shelves, real stock, real prices.

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Pond Algae Control in Kansas: What Actually Works

By July, every Kansas pond starts growing something green. A little algae is fine — it’s the start of the food chain. Too much algae kills oxygen, suffocates fish, and turns your pond into a swamp. Here’s how to deal with it the right way.

What Kind of Algae Are You Looking At?

Three main types you’ll see in Kansas ponds.

1. Planktonic Algae (Green Water)

Looks like the whole pond turned pea-green. Tiny floating cells. A small amount is healthy. A heavy bloom blocks sunlight and crashes oxygen overnight.

2. Filamentous Algae (Pond Scum / Moss)

Long stringy mats that float on the surface or grow off the bottom. The stuff that looks like wet hair when you pull it out. Most common Kansas pond problem.

3. Chara (Stonewort)

Looks like submerged underwater plants but it’s actually algae. Crunchy, musky-smelling. Grows on the bottom in clear ponds.

Different algae, different treatments. Match the problem to the fix.

What Causes the Bloom

Algae blooms when you give it three things: sunlight, nutrients, and warm water. Kansas gives you all three by June. Add runoff from fertilized lawns, livestock pasture, or septic — that’s the nutrient load that fires it off.

You can’t change the sun or the temperature. You can change the nutrient load.

Treatments That Actually Work

For Filamentous Algae (The Stringy Stuff)

  • Copper-based algaecides — fast knockdown, works in 24–72 hours
  • Pond dyes — block sunlight so algae can’t grow as fast
  • Mechanical removal — rake it out by hand for small ponds

For Planktonic Algae (Green Water)

  • Pond dyes are the first move
  • Bacterial treatments — eat the nutrients that feed the algae
  • Barley straw — slow-release, works over weeks
  • Aeration — keeps oxygen up and disrupts the surface

For Chara

  • Copper-based products work but knock it back slower
  • Adjust water chemistry — chara loves hard, alkaline water

Don’t Just Treat — Prevent

Kill the bloom, but if you don’t fix the source it comes right back next year.

  • Buffer your pond’s edge with grass or plants. Keeps runoff out.
  • Don’t fertilize the lawn within 25 feet of the bank. Phosphorus is algae fuel.
  • Aerate — moving water doesn’t grow surface scum the way still water does.
  • Stock the right number of fish. Overfed fish put nutrients in the water.

What We Carry

We stock pond algaecides, dyes, bacterial treatments, and barley products in our Pond section. Stop in, tell us what your pond looks like, and we’ll point you at what actually works for your situation.

For broader Kansas pond questions — stocking, feeding, aeration — see our Spring Pond Stocking guide.

One More Thing — Don’t Nuke It

Pulling out 100% of the algae at once crashes oxygen and kills fish. Treat in sections — a third to a half of the pond at a time, a week apart. Slow knockdown saves fish.

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Gift Baskets in Wichita: Birthdays, Funerals & Get-Well Made Easy

Need a gift basket in Wichita and don’t have a week to wait? Mr. Mc’s Market builds custom gift baskets right in the store — most ready to grab the same day you order. Birthdays, funerals, get-wells, holidays, thank-yous — we put it together while you take care of everything else.

What Goes in a Mr. Mc’s Gift Basket

We build to fit the occasion. Standard pulls include:

  • Snacks — chips, popcorn, cookies, jerky
  • Candy — chocolates, hard candy, gummies, gum
  • Drinks — sodas, juices, water, energy drinks
  • Personal care — soaps, lotions, deodorants
  • Tobacco accessories (where appropriate)
  • Hotlinks and meats for the meat-eaters in the family
  • Fresh fruit in season
  • A handwritten card

We can also build themed baskets — Father’s Day grilling basket, Mother’s Day pamper basket, fisherman’s tackle basket, get-well comfort basket. Tell us who it’s for and we’ll put it together.

Occasions We Build For

Birthdays

Candy, snacks, a card, and whatever the person actually likes — not just whatever’s pre-packaged.

Funerals & Sympathy

A respectful basket of comfort items, snacks, and easy meals for the family during a hard week. Often paired with a Fat Boyz tray (see Soul Food Saturday & Sunday).

Get-Well

Light snacks, juices, soup, soft foods. We can adjust if there are dietary needs.

Holidays

Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Christmas — themed baskets built around what the holiday calls for.

Thank-Yous

For teachers, coaches, neighbors, mechanics, hairdressers. A small basket that says thanks without breaking the bank.

Pricing

Our gift basket section carries options at every price point. Tell us your budget — $25, $50, $100, more — and we’ll build to it. Nothing fancy, nothing wasted.

Order Lead Time

Most baskets we can put together same day if you stop in by early afternoon. For weekends, holidays, or large quantities (10+ baskets for an event), give us a day or two and use our preorder page to lock it in.

Why People Use Us Over Online Gift Sites

  • Real items, picked the day you need it. Nothing sits in a warehouse.
  • Custom, not boxed. We adjust to who it’s for.
  • Local pickup or local delivery — no waiting on shipping.
  • You get to see it before it goes out. Approve, swap, or add anything you want.

See the Gift Baskets page or stop in and tell us what you need.

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Discount Tobacco in Wichita: What Mr. Mc’s Carries & Why Prices Stay Low

Looking for discount tobacco in Wichita without making three stops? Mr. Mc’s Market keeps a full smoke shop right inside the store — cigarettes, cigars, vapes, roll-your-own, papers, lighters. Low prices, consistent stock, no driving across town.

What We Carry

Our smoke shop section is stocked deep:

Cigarettes

  • Full lineup of major brands
  • Generics and value brands when you’re stretching the budget
  • Cartons available — pay less per pack when you buy in bulk

Cigars

  • Single cigars at the counter
  • Boxes for parties, weddings, or just stocking the humidor
  • Flavored cigars and traditional

Vapes & E-Liquids

  • Disposable vapes
  • Refillable systems and pods
  • E-liquid in popular flavors and nicotine strengths

Roll-Your-Own

  • Loose tobacco by the bag
  • Rolling papers in every size
  • Filter tips, tubes, and injectors

Accessories

  • Lighters and matches
  • Ashtrays
  • Cigar cutters
  • Storage tins

Why Our Prices Stay Low

We’re a neighborhood market, not a chain. That means lower overhead, no franchise fees, and we pass the savings forward. Carton prices on cigarettes, bulk pricing on cigars, and value tiers across every category.

We also watch what folks actually buy and stock to match. No shelves full of stuff that gathers dust — every brand on the rack moves regularly, which keeps it fresh and keeps the price honest.

ID Required

We card. State law requires it for anyone who looks under 30, and we card everyone to keep it simple. Have your ID ready at the counter.

One Stop, Multiple Needs

Stop in for tobacco, grab groceries, pick up a hotlink plate from Fat Boyz, and walk out with everything in one bag. That’s the point of a neighborhood market.

See the full lineup on our Premium Smoke Shop page or stop in and we’ll show you what’s on the rack today.

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Common Kansas Summer Pests & How to Stop Them

Kansas summers bring three things you can count on: heat, humidity, and bugs. By July, every yard in Wichita is hosting something. Here’s the rundown on the most common Kansas summer pests, how they get in, and how to stop them before they take over.

The Worst Kansas Summer Pests (And What to Do About Each)

1. Ants

Sugar ants, carpenter ants, pavement ants — they all want the same thing: a crack into your kitchen.

Stop them:

  • Caulk gaps around windows, doors, and foundation cracks
  • Bait stations near entry points work better than sprays (the ants carry poison back to the colony)
  • Keep counters wiped and sweet stuff sealed

2. Mosquitoes

Standing water plus 85° heat equals a mosquito factory.

Stop them:

  • Dump anything holding water — buckets, planter saucers, kid pools, clogged gutters
  • Treat the yard with a perimeter spray every 3–4 weeks during peak season
  • Keep grass cut short and shrubs trimmed (mosquitoes rest in shady cover during the day)

3. Chiggers

The worst part of Kansas summer for anyone going outside. Tiny mites that bite the inside of ankles, behind knees, anywhere clothing fits tight.

Stop them:

  • Spray boots, socks, and pant cuffs with permethrin before going out
  • Avoid sitting in tall grass — chiggers wait there
  • Shower with hot water and soap as soon as you get inside; bites don’t show for 24 hours but the chiggers fall off in the wash

4. Wasps and Hornets

By July, paper wasps are building under eaves, in mailboxes, in patio umbrellas. Bald-faced hornets are bigger and meaner.

Stop them:

  • Spray nests at dawn or dusk when wasps are clustered and slow
  • Don’t try a big nest with a small can — get a jet-stream wasp spray that shoots 20+ feet
  • For repeat problems near doors, hang a fake nest (paper wasps are territorial and won’t build near another colony)

5. Roaches

Mostly German cockroaches indoors, American cockroaches in garages and sheds.

Stop them:

  • Fix leaks — roaches need water more than food
  • Bait gel works better than sprays for indoor populations
  • Vacuum, throw out the bag, repeat

6. Spiders (Brown Recluse Especially)

Most Kansas spiders are harmless. Brown recluses are not. They like dark, dry, undisturbed spots — basements, closets, shoes left in the garage.

Stop them:

  • Shake out shoes before putting them on
  • Knock down webs in basements, garages, and under furniture
  • Sticky traps in corners catch wandering spiders and tell you what you’ve got

Yard-First Defense

The cheapest pest control is the kind that stops bugs at the property line.

  • Cut grass to the right height (3–4 inches for fescue) — bugs hide in tall grass
  • Trim shrubs back at least a foot from the house
  • Keep firewood, mulch, and brush piles 20+ feet from the foundation
  • Clean gutters before summer — clogged gutters breed everything

What We Stock

We carry everything you need to handle Kansas summer pests in our Pests aisle — sprays, bait stations, granules, and traps for indoor and outdoor use.

For bigger problems or recurring infestations, see our Effective Pest Control Solutions page for what works in Kansas.

Hit It Early

The best time to start pest control in Kansas is May. The second best time is right now. Whatever’s in your yard today is breeding for next month — get ahead of it.

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Sunday Soul Food in Wichita: Fat Boyz at Mr. Mc’s Market

If you grew up on real Sunday dinner — collard greens, smoked ribs, mac and cheese, sweet tea — you know what soul food is supposed to taste like. Fat Boyz at Mr. Mc’s Market serves it the way grandma used to, Saturday and Sunday, every weekend.

What Is Fat Boyz Soul Food?

Fat Boyz is the kitchen tucked inside Mr. Mc’s Market. While the store stocks groceries, bait, and tackle out front, the back is firing up Soul Food Saturday and Sunday — the kind of plates you can’t get out of a chain restaurant.

We run a rotating menu but the staples don’t move:

  • Smoked ribs — slow-cooked, fall-off-the-bone
  • Smothered chicken — gravy thick enough to stand a spoon up in
  • Collard greens — slow-simmered with smoked turkey
  • Mac and cheese — the kind that crusts up on top
  • Yams — sweet enough to call dessert
  • Cornbread — buttery and golden
  • Hotlinks — Wichita’s largest selection (more on that below)

Hotlinks — Our Specialty

We stock Wichita’s largest selection of hotlinks. Hot, mild, smoked, jalapeño, garlic — if there’s a hotlink worth eating, we carry it. Grab a few for the grill or get them cooked on a plate at Fat Boyz.

When We’re Open

Soul Food Saturday and Sunday is exactly what it sounds like — weekends only. Check the Fat Boyz Daily Specials page for what’s hot this week.

For midweek meals, Fat Boyz Take-and-Bake lets you grab a tray, warm it at home, and eat like it’s Sunday on a Tuesday.

Why Wichita Picks Us

Three reasons folks keep coming back:

  1. Made the right way. Real meat, real seasoning, real time. No shortcuts, no microwaves.
  2. Portions you can feed a family on. Sunday dinner at Fat Boyz isn’t a small plate. You leave full and you take leftovers.
  3. One stop. Pick up your meal, grab groceries, grab a fishing license — everything’s under one roof.

Come Hungry

Sunday soul food in Wichita doesn’t get more real than this. Pull up to Mr. Mc’s Market on a Saturday or Sunday, follow your nose to the back, and get a plate built the way it was meant to be.

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When Watermelon Season Starts in Kansas (And How to Pick a Good One)

Nothing says Kansas summer like a cold watermelon on a hot day. Here’s when local melons start hitting stands, how to pick one that’s actually ripe, and what to look for at Mr. Mc’s Market when the season’s on.

When Does Watermelon Season Start in Kansas?

Local Kansas watermelons usually start hitting in late June and run strong through early September. The peak is mid-July to mid-August — that’s when local melons are the cheapest, sweetest, and most plentiful.

Before late June, the watermelons in stores are mostly trucked in from Texas, Florida, and Georgia. Those are fine — but a melon grown right here in Kansas, picked ripe, hauled less than a hundred miles? Different sweetness. Different juice.

How to Pick a Good Watermelon

Forget thumping it. Here’s what actually works:

1. Check the Field Spot

Flip the melon over and look for a yellow or cream-colored patch where it sat on the ground. Bright creamy yellow = ripe. White or pale green = picked early. The darker yellow, the longer it stayed on the vine.

2. Check the Weight

A ripe watermelon feels heavy for its size. Lift two melons of the same size and pick the one that pulls your arm down. More water means more sweetness.

3. Check the Tail

The curly tendril where the melon attached to the vine should be dry and brown. Green tendril = picked too early.

4. Check the Skin

Dull, matte skin = ripe. Shiny, waxy skin = under-ripe. Sounds backwards but it’s true.

5. The Thump Test (If You Insist)

A ripe melon sounds hollow and deep when you thump it — like knocking on a wood door. An under-ripe melon sounds dull and dead, like knocking on drywall. An over-ripe melon sounds soft.

What We Stock at Mr. Mc’s Market

We pull in melons from local Kansas growers as soon as the harvest starts. When the season’s running, we usually have:

  • Seeded red watermelons — old-school sweetness, the way summer used to taste
  • Seedless red watermelons — easier to eat, still sweet
  • Yellow watermelons — milder, almost honey-like
  • Orange watermelons — sweetest of the bunch, harder to find

See our seeded, orange, and yellow watermelon lineup and check what’s in stock when the season opens.

How to Store It

Whole watermelon: room temperature on the counter, up to a week. Cold storage stops it from getting sweeter, so don’t refrigerate until you cut it.

Cut watermelon: airtight container, in the fridge, three to five days.

Eat It While You Can

Kansas watermelon season is short and hot. Three months, maybe four. When you see them on the stand, grab one — they’re at their best for a stretch you can count on one hand.

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White Bass Run in Kansas: Where & When to Catch Them

The white bass run is the most fun stretch of the Kansas fishing year. Schools of aggressive fish push upstream to spawn, and for two to three weeks you can catch them until your arm gives out. Here’s how to be on the water when it happens.

When Does the White Bass Run Hit in Kansas?

The Kansas white bass run kicks off when water temperatures hit 55°F to 65°F. In south-central Kansas that’s usually late March through early May. A warm spell can fire it off early. A cold front can stall it.

The run lasts about 2–3 weeks at any one spot. Once they spawn, they slide back to the lakes and the bite gets a lot harder to find.

Where the Run Happens

White bass run UP rivers and creeks from the lakes they live in. Pull a map, find a lake with a feeder river, and the run will stage near the mouth and move upstream until they hit something they can’t cross.

Top Kansas white bass run spots near Wichita:

  • Walnut River above El Dorado Lake — classic run water
  • Ninnescah River above Cheney Reservoir — both forks produce
  • Whitewater River above El Dorado
  • Arkansas River below the Wichita dams — when the water’s right

What to Throw

White bass eat shad. Match it.

  • Roadrunner-style jigs — 1/8 to 1/4 oz, white or chartreuse
  • Small inline spinners — Mepps, Rooster Tails
  • Curly-tail grubs on jigheads — 2-inch white or pearl
  • Live minnows — when the artificial bite slows down

When the school is fired up, almost any flash works. When the bite gets picky, downsize and slow down.

Pick up everything — jigheads, grubs, spinners, and live minnows — in our Bait & Tackle aisle. Live minnows are sold by the pound if you want backup bait.

How to Fish the Run

Find moving water. Look for current breaks behind rocks, eddies on the inside of bends, and slack water below riffles. Cast upstream, let the jig swing through the current, and hold on.

When you catch one, throw right back to the same spot. White bass run in schools — where there’s one, there’s usually fifty.

Tackle and Limits

Light gear works:

  • 6’6″ medium spinning rod
  • 8–10 lb line
  • A bucket — Kansas regulations let you keep a generous daily limit (check the current KDWP regs before you keep)

A run trip done right fills the cooler in an afternoon. Get the kids out, get the freezer stocked, and don’t forget to clean the fish before they get soft.

Don’t Sleep on It

The Kansas white bass run is short. Two weeks, maybe three. Watch the water temp, watch the river levels, and when you hear the bite turned on — drop everything and go.

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How to Use Catfish Stink Bait: Rigs, Tips & Beginner Mistakes

Stink bait catches more channel cats than any other bait — but only if you rig it right and fish it patient. Half the folks who buy a jar lose fish because of one or two simple mistakes. Here’s how to fix that.

What Stink Bait Actually Does

Stink bait works on scent. Channel catfish track scent trails the way a dog tracks game in a field. Real fish oil, real minnows, real protein — that’s what pulls them in from across a hole.

Mr. Mc’s Magical Catfish Stink Bait is built thick and oily on purpose. Thick holds on the hook. Oily disperses scent. Both matter.

The Three Stink Bait Rigs You Need to Know

1. Treble Hook Rig (Punch Bait)

For thick, sticky punch bait.

  • 3/0 to 5/0 treble hook
  • Slip sinker, 1–2 oz
  • Push the bait around the treble with a stick — don’t use your hands unless you want to smell like dead fish for a week
  • Drop, hold tight, wait for a hit

2. Dip Worm Rig (Dip Bait)

For thinner dip bait.

  • Plastic dip worm or dip tube on a single hook
  • Slip sinker, 1–2 oz above a swivel
  • Dip the worm into the jar, twist, lift it out coated
  • Cast and let it sit — the worm holds the bait, the bait builds the scent cloud

3. Spring Hook Rig (Dough Bait)

For soft moldable dough bait.

  • Treble hook with a spring coil above
  • Mold the dough around the coil and treble
  • Slip sinker, 1 oz, with a swivel

Beginner Mistakes That Cost You Fish

1. Setting the hook too early. Cats inhale and run. Let them load the rod before you set. Wait until the tip bends hard.

2. Reeling in to check the bait. If you can still smell it, it’s still working. Leave it down for 20–30 minutes per cast.

3. Casting into dead water. Stink bait works best in current, holes, or below structure. Open mud flats in 90° sun produce nothing.

4. Using light tackle. Channel cats fight hard. A 7-foot medium-heavy rod with 15–20 lb line keeps you in the fight.

5. Letting the jar dry out. Stink bait dries on top in heat. Stir it before each trip and store it tight-lidded out of direct sun.

When to Fish Stink Bait

Stink bait works year-round but shines from late April through October in Kansas. Best bite windows:

  • Two hours before sunset to two hours after dark
  • Right after a rain stirs up the water
  • Warm muddy water above 65°F

Where to Get It

We make Mr. Mc’s Magical Catfish Stink Bait right here in Wichita — small batches, real ingredients, no shortcuts. Pick up a jar plus your treble hooks, dip worms, and weights in our Bait & Tackle aisle.

Run a clean rig, fish patient, let the scent do the work. That’s the whole thing.

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Late-Spring Lawn Care in Kansas: Heat-Ready Grass, Weeds & Watering

By late May, Kansas weather is already swinging into summer. The lawn you have right now is the one going into July. Hit a few things this month and the grass stays green through the heat. Skip them and you’ll watch it brown out by the Fourth.

Mow Tall — Especially in Kansas

The single biggest mistake Kansas homeowners make is mowing too short. Short grass burns. Tall grass shades its own roots and holds water.

  • Tall fescue / Kentucky bluegrass: 3.5 to 4 inches.
  • Bermuda / Zoysia: 1.5 to 2.5 inches.
  • Never cut more than 1/3 of the blade in one pass.
  • Sharp blade only. Dull blades shred grass and brown the tips.

Water Deep, Not Often

Daily watering teaches roots to stay shallow. Shallow roots fry in July.

Soak the yard once or twice a week — about 1 inch of water total, applied early in the morning. Stick a tuna can on the lawn while the sprinkler runs. When it’s full, you’re done.

Late-Spring Weed Knock-Down

May is your last clean shot at broadleaf weeds before the heat. Spot-treat dandelions, clover, and creeping charlie now. Wait too long and post-emergent sprays scorch the lawn.

If crabgrass is already up, you missed the pre-emergent window — but a targeted post-emergent in late May or early June still works. Don’t apply broad weed-and-feed in 85°+ heat. Burns the grass.

Feed Cool-Season Grass Light, Warm-Season Heavy

  • Fescue / bluegrass (cool-season): Light feeding in May. Heavy spring feeding pushes growth right before the heat, and you can’t keep up watering it.
  • Bermuda / zoysia (warm-season): Now’s the time. Hit it with a full nitrogen fertilizer once soil temps are steady above 65°F.

Watch for Grubs and Pests Early

Grubs hatch in late spring. By the time you see brown patches in July, the damage is done. Treat now, before they’re feeding. We carry lawn and garden treatments along with pest control supplies — stop in if you’re not sure what your yard is dealing with.

Walk the Yard This Weekend

Mow tall, water deep, knock back weeds, watch for bugs. That’s the late-spring playbook in Kansas. Everything else is bonus.

For seed, fertilizer, sprayers, weed treatment, grub killer, and pond supplies — we keep it all stocked in our Lawn & Garden section.

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