Pet Care: What is the Star Camper Contest? – Pet Camp
Pet Camp is really proud of our Star Campers. How do you get to be a star camper? It’s a great opportunity to show off your dog or cat to the thousands, and I mean thousands and thousands of people who look at our website and our Facebook page everyday. So how do you get to…
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What is a Puppy Mill?
“Puppy Mill” – few terms bring about such a visceral reaction in the dog world. But what exactly is a puppy mill? Well in addition to there being no legal definition of a puppy mill, until recently there was no agreed upon industry definition either. Recently, after two years of work, the American Pet Products…
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Still Winning After All These Years
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Thanks to everyone who voted Pet Camp as best overnight pet care facility in the Bay Area! This is the 5th year in a row we’ve taken this honor. We are humbled by the trust our campers’ parents place in us every day and can’t think of a better way to spend…
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Is declining treatment for your pet animal abuse?
I got a call from a reporter the other day with an unusual question. She said that someone had called her and told her that they had taken their dog to a local veterinarian because the dog had a swollen muzzle. The veterinarian diagnosed a cracked tooth and suggested extraction with an estimated cost of…
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Tech and the Small Business
We opened Pet Camp 17 years ago at the start of what became known as the “Dot-Com Boom.” While everyone else who was starting a business was going high tech, we went low-low tech. The “Dot-Com Boom” went onto become the “Dot-Com Bust” and many of those remarkable tech companies (anyone remember Pets.com?) left while…
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Cost and End of Life Decisions
Sadly, there is a time in every pet parent’s life when that most dreaded decision has to be made. While deciding to put a pet to sleep is never easy, there are times when the decision point is “clearer.” Yet there are many times when the decision is made for “non-medical” reasons. Here at Pet…
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