Lilly, the Basset Hound, has been coming to the Pampered Pooch Playground for over 3 years, and enjoys hanging out in the Canine Cove. Summer is one of her favorite months because she gets to sunbath in our outdoor play area, and play with the sprinkler. One of Lilly’s talents is “show me your belly”, where she rolls over on her back with her feet up in the air (check out our photo gallery for a picture of Lilly doing this). Lilly is also a regular in the PPP hotel and her parents love to watch her on the luxury suite webcam. Each day when Lilly comes in her dad gives her a carrot before she gets to go see all of her friends! We love Lilly and glad she is part of the PPP family!
Lilly
The PPP Kickball Team
I often think back to when I was working in radio and how we were treated by the management and owners of the station. At the station I worked at in Minneapolis, it was a locally owned station, the owners knew your name and everyone really enjoyed working there and they always had fun events for the staff. Prior to working in Minneapolis, I worked for the largest group of radio stations in the country. Working for them did have some benefits, but you were honestly treated like a number and hard work was very rarely rewarded. We never want to turn into this. I often think back to when we first opened and we had 4 employees and from day 1 we always tried to make working at PPP fun and rewarding. We have chosen to run our doggy daycare like the station I worked for in Minneapolis. We really do value all of our employees and love having fun outside of work with everyone. This summer we put together a PPP kickball team with employees. Tonight was our second game and we won! We really do have fun outside of the PPP!
Have a good night.
Keith
Saturday, June 16th – St Louis Park – Parktacular
Join Bubbly Paws Dog Wash and Pampered Pooch Playground at the 2012 St. Louis Park Parktacular event at Wolfe Park from 2-6pm. We will be sponsoring adoptable dogs from the Humane Society. We are proud to be a small, locally owned business located in St Louis Park. For more information click here.
Wednesday, June 6th – Wine and Wag
Eat. Drink. Save Dogs from 6-9pm at Darby’s in the North Loop of Minneapolis. The proceeds from ticket sales help provide much-needed medical attention to the dogs of Homeward Bound Rescue (a no-kill shelter). This tail wagging event will include: 5 courses of gourmet appetizers paired with wine from Flirt and Josh Cellars Fruit and cheese skewers Thai chicken skewers Assorted slider sandwiches (fish and meat) Veggie focaccia pizza Cake Live music by Michael Wright Raffle One entry with ticket purchase, additional tickets available for $5 Gourmet treats for your dog Favor bags with goodies & special offers for you and your pooch. For more information and tickets click here. Pampered Pooch Playground and Bubbly Paws Dog Wash have been sponsoring this event for the past 4 years!
Our New Service
Please note that we posted this on April Fools Day…..
Starting Monday, April 9th, Pampered Pooch Playground will expand and begin offering baby daycare in our canine cove. But, this is no typical baby daycare, they will be interacting with the dogs in the canine cove. What can be better than 10 dogs and 10 babies all having fun in the same room. We will be lowering the webcams so you can see the happy expressions on all the babies faces when they are crawling around with all the dogs. Once a baby reaches 1 year old they will be able to interact with the dogs in the Ruff House. One final change will be our name… It will now become “Pampered Pooch and Baby Playground”. Prices for baby daycare will be the same rate as our dog daycare rates. Within the next 60 days, we hope to expand our baby daycare into baby overnight care. You can make your reservations for baby daycare by clicking here. Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Flea and Tick season is here!
We have been warning all of our customers that that the Flea and Tick season is going to be a big one this year. We require all of our doggy daycare and hotel dogs to be on prevention from April-October, but this spring, it might not be a bad idea to start early. FOX 9 did a great story on how to protect your pooch!
Warm Weather Brings Fleas, Ticks Out Early: MyFoxTWINCITIES.com
Why don’t we have a Groupon?
Chego loves to play outside at doggy daycare!
Today, I jsut took the 3rd call from one of those 1/2 price deal companies… You might have heard of them, their name starts with a G and ends in PON. Anyway, the guy said that we shoudl offer a deal (this is the 4th time in a month they have called us). I just wanted to touch on why we have never offered any type of deal for any of our services at Pampered Pooch Playground. Basically when you sell a deal you have to honor it. So if the dog is not a good fit for our doggy daycare we still have to allow them to come until the special runs out. This means we would have dogs that are a bad fit for daycare in the group. The other reason is that they take over 60% of the sale of the offer. So in a nut shell, we always put the safety of your dog ahead of everything else 
Have a good day!
Keith
Kinnick
Kinnick is the largest of all the Bernese Mountain Dogs that come to our doggy daycare weighing in at about 120 pounds. One way you can tell him apart is by his trademark poofy hair on his head. Kinnick has been coming to us since he was a puppy and is now almost 3 years old! It is often asked, “what is up with the name Kinnick”? His mom went to college at the University of Iowa, and the football stadium is called Kinnick Stadium. He might be a huge dog, but he loves hanging out with the smaller dogs in Waggers Way or the Canine Cove. Kinnick is also a regular face at Bubbly Paws and pulls his mom to the door for his nightly treat!
A Special Visit
Roxy supervising the Doggie Den dogs.
Yesterday I had so much fun at doggy daycare and it involved the 2 ladies in my life (Trycia and Roxy). We were all in the Doggie Den supervising some of the daycare dogs playing and Roxy was helping us. Those of you that know her from the lobby know that she like the calm mellow dogs that come in (not the super excited ones that can’t wait to get into the play areas). Roxy does not normally go in the rooms everyday, but her and Trycia are a package deal and they always have to be together. So Roxy was hanging out and helping us supervise everyone. Hope everyone has a good weekend!
Keith
Our Great Crew
This past week Trycia and I were on vacation and every time we leave I always worry about the daycare. Pampered Pooch Playground is our baby, and I is always hard to leave and go somewhere. We have a great crew / mangers and we felt very comfortable leaving it in their hands and they did a wonderful job! First thing Saturday morning I stopped in to make sure everything ran smooth, and it did! Just because we were on vacation does not mean we were out of touch, we emailed daily and always had the phone on just incase anything came up. I really love being to leave and know that the doggy daycare is in GREAT hands and I can’t thank our staff enough to let us be able to go away for a few days and know everything is fine. You might be thinking, “where did you guys go”? Well, we went to the Turks and Caicos islands and had an amazing vacation. Their stray dogs are called Potcakes, and we really debated adopting one and bringing it home, but then we realized Roxy likes being an only child!
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Keith
