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Skunks & Your Dog: When It Happens Be Ready!

April 16, 2019

It’s springtime in San Francisco.  Time for walking your dog in the early morning sun and the dim evening light. It’s a great time of year – mostly post rain and still pre-fog.  Sadly, you and your dog might not be the only ones out for a stroll.  While skunks are nocturnal (they tend to…

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Dogs Bark: How to get over that and teach the "quiet command"

April 11, 2019

Yup, it’s true: dogs bark (except for those Basenjis who are sold to unsuspecting pet parents as “barkless dogs” who then realize that instead of barking Basenjis scream). What did we expect? We’ve bred dogs to bark for thousands of years and now we get upset when a dog does its “job” and barks when…

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Introducing: The Pet Camp Mobile App!

April 4, 2019

The Pet Camp Mobile App is Here! Yes, it’s true – we’ve joined the app-crazy world of San Francisco! The Pet Camp App won’t let you summon something from the fast-food restaurant 10 minutes away that already offers take out (and should you really be eating that stuff anyway?) or sync to your smart speaker…

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Pet Camp’s New Retractable Roof – What It Adds

March 25, 2019

Pet Camp has always prided itself on being the pet care facility for pets – not humans.  We’re not posh, we don’t spend our money on branded dog beds or food carts, we spend our money (which means the money you spend with us) on the things we think will make your pet’s stay amazing.…

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Pet Camp is "Open To All"

March 21, 2019

Pet Camp recently signed the OPEN TO ALL pledge and signed up to get our window decals (without the yelp marketing component).  For those of you who don’t know, businesses that sign the OPEN TO ALL pledge commit to: Maintain a welcoming and safe environment for people – including employees, visitors, customers, vendors and clients…

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What’s that Smell? Decoding Dog Flatulence

March 18, 2019

OMG. What’s that smell? In my house we can almost always blame flatulence on my 16-year old son Quinn; even when the dogs (and we have 3 of them) let loose, Quinn gets blamed. But what if you’re not fortunate to have a “fart-goat” in the house? How do you deal with your dog’s gaseous…

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