seven minute read
How to choose a boarding kennel, from somebody who runs one
Six questions worth asking, in the order that actually sorts the good ones from the well-photographed ones.
Reading
The journal
Six questions people ask before boarding an animal anywhere, answered at more length than a phone call usually allows.
Why these six
Each one is a question worth asking before you hand an animal over anywhere, not only here. Two of them are about this lodge's own routine, one is about what the City actually requires and why the dates on it never move together, one is arithmetic worth doing before Thanksgiving rather than after, and two are about the animal rather than the building: what a first stay costs a dog that has never done one, and why a cat is not a small, quiet dog.
six minute read
What your dog actually does all day
Mostly sleep. Here is the real timetable, hour by hour, including the two hours nobody photographs.
five minute read
One night now is worth two weeks later
The cheapest thing you can do for a dog that has never boarded, and the reason we push it at people who do not want to hear it.
six minute read
Why bordetella is every six months when everything else is every three years
Two different clocks, one City rule, and the reason a current rabies certificate tells you nothing about whether your dog can board on Friday.
five minute read
Travelling at Thanksgiving with a dog at home
Why the six suites that matter go first, what the minimum stay is really for, and the month to telephone.
five minute read
Cats do not board like dogs, and a cattery that forgets it shows
Height, silence, and the same food. Three things that decide whether a cat eats on the second day.
And ten things we will not claim
The reading above is about how boarding and daycare actually work. A separate set of pages says what this lodge will not claim, one page for each sentence, printing the advertisement it exists to refuse.
Are those dates free?
The calendar shows every night, for every suite class, with how many are left and what that night costs. Nothing is paid on this website: you pay when you collect.