C'mon sit on ol' jeff's lap an I'll tell ya a story about a beautiful business called All-Star Pet Care:
If there was ever a place to give you the real deal, it's all-star. They've handled my daughter and I's dog Charlie well for months now and I swear he comes home smelling better than he does when he's in our very own care.
Has to do with staff: a place that gives good care to a dog gives good care to its staff as well, trickle-down happiness. If they're willing to pay their employees under the table to avoid tax hindrances, you know they're going to bend the rules to help your dog out too,
and btw we've had last-minute schedules that they've accomodated for us that you probably couldn't get from a regular dog daycare place in Chicago specially. It's not a big deal if they advertise 24-hour staff and, if the boarding attendance is low, just go out to the bars or whatever or maybe sleep at home, cuz I can tell when Charlie's been fed or maybe gets excited and has a hard time sleeping- whatever natural herbal methods to put my dog to sleep are fine with me.
They give the dogs freedom to roam around cage-free, unless they do something stupid (the dogs), so they get put in there for a little while just like at home, which is how it should be. Employees make sure that the dogs get full freedom to engage eachother naturally, if you know what I mean, which is part of the joy of being a dog.
So if they get real close, even if we all know those two dogs don't get along, I'd do the same thing: wait till they start snarlin n bitin to pull em away... part of bein a dog.
Dogs get three walks a day unless ya watch the cam closely - but I'm bettin ya those dogs get outside to do their business at All-Star more than anywhere else. They got a backyard out there, and depending on traffic, you gotta go through the alley to save time and take a gander at the outfit out back. Rigged with plenty of space, a bullet-proof barbed-wire fence, little bit a rust but who doesn't have their at their place at home, and sometimes there's fresh rain water that collects into pools and you know what a happy pup does with that. uses it, damn straight. A shit can's a shit can and they keep that backyard clean, tho if your dog does love a shitpile like Charlie does, it might get its fill for free. The dogs are all screened for vaccines and what not so no big deal as far as mouthful a dog shit go. better than soakin into the indoor facility; if charlie ends up bringing up a stomach-full of some other dog's rear-end, at least we have a clue why the hell he's so darn tired! big day for a dog and that's what we pay for.
Can't say I don't love the online webcam: not only can I sit at my job and stare at the screen for what seems like seconds just to find it's been hours, but when you take no audio and add that to slow technology with the web cam and what not, there's really nothing there but the occasional picture to tell me what's going on. Sorta like a phonecall every month from my distant son. Lets me know everything's okay without really worrying me.
It might've taken em a few years to jump on board having an air conditioning system in a fairly unventilated, questionably-zoned business space, but I'm pretty sure that thing is installed whether or not it's on when we come to pick charlie up, which is kinda like the webcam: I know it's there.
All in all, without All-Star Petcare, I'd have to buy my friend a case of beer to get the same kind of service, and to be honest, that's how much their daycare service costs.
Might as well just leave it to the professionals and keep drinkin and dogwatchin separate. 5/5 and thank you allstar read more
