There are a limited number of ways that you can vacation with your dog. One way is to have them stay in a kennel, another way is to bring them with you (need rv dog friendly, camp dog friendly, or hotel dog friendly places to do this), and another option is to have a place like mine where dogs stay in your home. I actually know a few pet sitting people in the area that do this. To be in the home, however, there are some training and temperament requirements that are insisted upon by the owners of these establishments. These are usually found by referral of veterinarians and others in the area (hard to locate without a referral in other words).
An increasing number of people don't want to place their dogs in a kennel. I am one, it would have to be an absolute emergency for me to need to do that. Luckily our tenants and friends, my pet sitting friends, and others have been there to help if we need to leave for a couple of days. We almost always vacation with our pets, and know of pet friendly places to do this.
One of the kennels in the area is closing, The Privileged Pet LLC. Actually I believe the official day of closing was May the 3rd. The house and kennel now look to be for sale. It is a small kennel, and in reading an article done about them recently, the economy and probably the increase in more home like accomodations have most likely made doing business hard for them. The overhead of keeping a facility like this, even though it is small, is no small thing.
I am curious as to what will happen to this property now. Although it changed ownership (and was closed down before for a little while), it has been a kennel for at least 23 years or so.
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I worked there for 7 months up till the closing day. I see that there are new owners and some new construction ging on. I hope they re-open and I'd love to work there again. I miss alot of those dogs and cats!!
I thought I saw a sign the other day that they were reopened. I haven't heard anything about it yet around town.
I am so sorry to hear about the closing. I knew the owner as she was a member or a local vet. She was great with my Lab, Hawkeye. They gave great care to the dogs who stayed at their facility. sigh...
York Bark and Play is now at that same facility. They also do a very good job,and I think they have a better set up than York Bark and Play.
I worked there in the past and for that reason I do not kennel my dogs.
I witnessed dogs that got injured because the staff wasn't supervising them properly and I saw a dog with bloody diarrhea. When I mentioned it to the owner she said it was due to the change in food and nothing was said to the owners upon pickup (I checked them out.) Pet parents were told we walked them 3x a day but there were many times the dogs were lucky if the got 2 walks, I rarely ever saw 3.
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