Doggy Day Care

[Staff'n'Toller]

Does your dog go to day care? Or have they in the past?

What aspects do you like about it - particularly the day-to-day aspects of how they deal with your dog and other dogs.

Not really looking for the bad stuff, just the good stuff.

Curious. :)

[Staff'n'Toller]

Why would you only be interested in one side of the story?

Because I occasionally see jobs advertised to manage day care centres, and I have never stepped foot in one, so wondered what users of this service find beneficial about it.

It made me think about how *I* would run it myself and I wondered how that would differ from current client perceptions in terms of what they think is good.

[westiemum]

Snooks right - good post Snook. You do have to consider the risks which are attached to your own personal circumstances and then do what's right for you. And it will be different for each of us.

I have three westies - a 15 year old, a 13 year old girl and a possibly 7 year old boy.

I'm an itinerant house-sitter at the moment while I re-build and needed a solution to nuisance barking (where I currently have very few options), the supervision of the eldest who is becoming a very disabled Westie and the socialisation of the youngest - both boys were very poorly socialised puppy farm rescues. Mac has a very high risk of aspiration pneumonia which could hit clinically and hard very suddenly. And I work full-time.

So Dogcity daycare has been a real blessing. However that's not to say I would necessarily be happy with other daycares. But I am very happy with them. Well staffed and very well managed.

I recognise there is a risk of an accident at daycare which I accept. I also recognise that elderly dogs home alone are also a risk. And I want the risk of any of them, but Mac in particular at this time dying alone minimised. So he needs more supervision during the working day as he gets older so Dogcity it is - with a day a week from his grandma!

But others wouldn't touch daycare of any sort with a barge pole - and that's OK too. For me it's a good solution to my difficult current circumstances.

Hope that helps.