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Even Roxy needs doggy daycare!

September 7, 2011 by Keith | Comments Off
roxy at the apple store in uptown minneapolis

When not greeting people in the doggy daycare lobby, Roxy loves going on adventures... One of her favorite places in the Apple Store in Uptown, Minneapolis.

Every morning Trycia asks Roxy of she wants to “go to work”…  Most of the time she gets really excited, but sometimes she decides that she wants to sleep in.  Today was one of the days that Roxy wanted to “sleep in”.  After I left the daycare, I stopped at the dog wash and headed home.  We ate dinner and took Roxy on a long walk and she still has TONS of energy!  All night she has been running around the house wanting to play.  It is super cute, but I also know why everyone loves bringing their pooch to doggy daycare.  Roxy does not go in the play areas often, but she gets so tired from greeting everyone in the lobby!  Just thought I would share a cute story!

Have a good night!

Keith

 

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Why people need doggy daycare

May 10, 2011 by Keith | Comments Off
Roxy and Zoe tired after doggy daycare

Roxy and Zoe tired after their day at doggy daycare!

Our dog Roxy is 5 and people always wonder why she is so mellow.  It is because she is out of the crazy puppy stage, but she can have her moments when she is wild and crazy!  She gets really tired by just hanging out in the lobby at the doggy daycare!  This week we are dog sitting Roxy’s niece, who is 8 months old.  Zoe has so much energy and she is always trying to play with Roxy.  Monday, we took her to doggy daycare and it was so nice to have a super tired puppy at night!  I think Roxy really LOVED having a quiet puppy because that meant she got all of the attention.  Wow!  Sometimes I forget how important doggy daycare is for puppies :)

Have a great day!

Keith

 

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Doggy Daycare makes for a tired Roxy

December 1, 2010 by Keith | Comments Off
Sabra the Bernese Mountain Dog

Sabra the Bernese Mountain Dog found a new spot rest in the Ruff House today!

Many of you get to be greeted by Roxy in the lobby every day and one of the most common questions we get is “dog you bring her to work everyday”.  Yes, she comes almost everyday.  Every now and then we do leave her at home, but she really enjoys greeting everyone when they come and she gets really excited for Jim, the mailman who comes at 11am with treats for her everyday!  Surprisingly Roxy gets really tired from being the greeter each day, when she gets home she will nap for a few hours.  I guess it is hard work being “the face” of the PPP.  The reason I bring this up is because today we left her home and now she has LOTS and LOTS  of energy.  We are attempting to play “find it” with treats, but that does not tire her out.

We keep exparamenting with our room configurations, today we tried making one large room (about 4400 sqft) for our waggers way dogs (the other rooms did not change in size.  We basically removed the divider between Waggers Way and the Doggy Den.  This idea came from a few of our employees and I am a big fan of listening to what they have to say and trying it.  The dogs really seem to love this large room and we are going to keep trying it out.

Have a great night!

Keith

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Bernese Play Time

November 14, 2010 by Keith | 1 Comment

Today we had a bunch of Roxy’s brothers, sisters and extended family in our training room for a play group!  The highlight was the 14 week old Bernese Mountain Dog puppies that were there, and we had to make a video of the cuteness!!  Enjoy!

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Off to the show!

October 8, 2010 by Keith | Comments Off
Buckley the Bernese Mountain Dog at doggy daycare

Buckley the bernese mountain dog love being outside in the cool fall weather while at doggy daycare.

As many of you know we love to support local companies (since we are a local company) and we use locally made Topline Canine shampoo and conditioner in our grooming salon.  Topline Canine is made by one of our customers and it is a product I really believe in and we were the first business in the country to sell it!  So the owner of the company asked if I would help represent him at a large pet expo in Chicago!  How could I pass that up?  Trycia and I were planning on attending the show anyway and it is geared to pet business owners.  So this weekend I will be there talking about how great Topline is and getting new and fresh ideas for our retail area.  This show is like NYC’s fashion week for pet businesses and this is our first year attending it.  There are lots of industry people that I am really interested to meet and share ideas with.

Have a great weekend!

Keith

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The Puppies

September 26, 2010 by Keith | Comments Off
Bernese Mountain Dog Puppy

I can't believe how small they are and how big they will be when they grow up!

This morning our dog Roxy had a date at the Airport Dog Park with our breeder, and one her dogs Mira who is also a Bernese Mountain Dog.  After Roxy and Mira were done playing, we went back to the breeders house and got to play with the 3 week old Bernese Mountain Dog puppies!  Darn they are so cute and I wanted to take one of them home!  All the dogs were named after Thomas the Train characters, but I thought it would have been really funny to name them after Jersey Shore characters!  Can you see one of the dogs named Snookie and another called The Situation???!!

Have a good night.

Keith

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Which Bernese is this?

September 16, 2010 by Keith | Comments Off
Kinnick the Bernese Mountain Dog

Kinnick loves the HUGE outside play area at Pampered Pooch Playground.

When we first opened the doggie daycare we only had 1 Bernese Mountain Dog, and it was Roxy…. Now we have about 2 every day.  Kinnick is one of the puppies that comes often and when he fist started to attend doggie daycare he had a HUGE ‘fro on his head.  He has now grown into his ‘fro!  Kinnick can be seen hanging out in the ruff house!

Have a great day!

Keith

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Auntie Roxy

September 6, 2010 by Keith | Comments Off

Bernese Mountain Dog Puppies MinneapolisThere is some big news around our house!  Roxy is a Auntie!! Her sister Ruby,  just had 10 beautiful Bernese Mountain Dog puppies and Trycia and I can’t wait to meet them!  Ruby’s owner sent us a few pictures of the 2 day old puppies and we showed them to Roxy!

Just wanted to share!

Keith

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Lake Minnetonka Fun

August 29, 2010 by Keith | 2 Comments

dogs at big island on lake minnetonkaYesterday Trycia and I went out on one of our friends boats on Lake Minnetonka and once we got to Big Island, we saw so many dogs!  We were walking along all the boats and saw Fletcher the Bernese Mountain Dog that was swimming, and when he got tired he would lay on his water mattress!  We stopped to talk with the owner and bonded over Bernese Mountain Dogs (maybe one day Roxy will lay on the mattress like Fletcher).  I wish i brought our camera because it was the cutest thing I have ever seen.

We kept going and there must have been over 20 dogs that were all on boats or in the water.  Pretty cool!  My personal favorite was this picture I took of a guy pushing 4 of them on their water mattress.  He passed our boat 3 times!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Keith

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Max has grown!!

July 19, 2010 by Keith | Comments Off

Say hello to Max the Bernese Mountain Dog.  His mom lives out of state and travels to Minneapolis for the summer and last summer he was a 6 month old puppy when he left to go back home for the winter.  When he walked in last week to check in for his hotel visit, i did not even recognize him because he is now full grown!!  Max is one energetic dog and enjoys playing in all the rooms!  Today we had 2 other Bernese Mountain Dogs and they were all laying down by each other.  By the time I ran to our office to get my phone to take a picture, they had moved!

Hope everyone had a great weekend.  There are still a few tickets available for Sushi With Your Poochie tomorrow and Wednesday nights at Tiger Sushi in Uptown.

Keith

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