Marmalade and the Angry Bouncer
It pains me to tell you this, but Marmalade, my (well, she’s actually Virginia’s dog) 155-pound Mastiff, may have gotten me banned from my favorite dog friendly dive bar in San Francisco. Here’s The Sad Story For the last 10 years or so, Splash and now Marmalade have joined me and a few other…
Read MoreIt’s Always the Big Dog’s Fault?
I was re-reading the August Your Dog newsletter published by the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, and stumbled across the following sentence in an article titled When a Big Dog Attacks a Little Dog: “It is never your fault if a larger dog attacks your little one.” Big Dogs vs. Little Dogs:…
Read MoreWhy Longevity of Employees Matters in Pet Care
I was recently part of a discussion with a group of doggie day care / dog boarding facility owners about the longevity of employees. It quickly became clear that most of these owners regarded having an employee stay with them for more than a year or two was regarded as a success and the average…
Read MoreCats and High Places
We’ve all seen it – some cat high up in a tree, on top of a refrigerator, walking across the top of a door or window. Long before we created the spaces for cats to climb it was built into their evolutionary DNA. Why do cats love being up high? Being up high allows a…
Read MoreThe Winter Holidays are Upon Us!
If we’re talking about Halloween, so Thanksgiving and Christmas cannot be too far away. Every year we get a frantic call as a family is heading to SFO that their house sitter flaked or that they somehow forgot they had a cat or a dog they were so excited planning that Christmas vacation to (fill…
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Trust A Local Business
Last month a story broke about a former Olympian who had a hired a dog sitter via an app and came home to find his dog locked in a room, two shirtless men hanging about, some personal lubricant and a video camera. In case you missed the story the first time around you can check…
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