From the first day our Phineas attended Dozo, he has always looked forward to coming straight back for daycare. In fact, when we pull up on Dozo's block now, he will whimper and bark excitedly to get into play mode! (Who taught you that, Phineas?) I've waited to review Dozo Dog because of two things- we wanted to get him groomed, and also we and Phineas were all too tired to even remembering turning Yelp on to review.
When Phineas started growing bigger and faster into his current 30 lb self, we realized we couldn't take him everywhere and anywhere with us. A dog trainer friend of mine had advised Phineas needed social dog playtime in order to fix his bad behavior of using us (his pawrents) as doggy playmates! I chose Dozo based off of Google & Yelp reviews, and asked a million and one questions before making a reservation. I ended up booking a half daycare session for him to start off with on their self-service app. Dozo Dog provides transparency, in which they will give you pupdates, and you are able to access their live webcams to watch your dog. After the first day and the pupdates, I didn't need to turn on the webcam.
Both Yukako and Louis are amazing managers- they are heavily involved from day 1 in making sure Phineas was introduced properly, and that all dogs were supervised. The workers are great too, and I've seen them care and clean up any accidents as soon as it happens in the play area. They explained to me that Dozo is basically a doggy school for them! When we picked Phineas up from his first day, he was sooo tired, that he didn't make a peep in the car!
We then booked his first grooming session yesterday with Tatiana, whom has doodle experience. Phineas is an F1B Miniature Goldendoodle with the curliest coat. He is getting neutered soon, so we asked Tatiana to clean him up before then since we won't be able to bathe him. She touched, assessed his coat, and evaluated Phineas and told us what she can and can't do up front. She even told us that he had the most high maintenance of doodle coats, but it was also a very beautiful coat. If he was matted, he would've had to have been shaved. She was also very honest in letting us know if we wanted him to be cut, it may not come out even since this would be his first grooming session. We all weren't sure how he would do on the grooming table for the first time, since he was already tricked into getting groomed instead of playtime! Yukako told us it would take about 2 hours depending on how Phineas does, and that Tatiana would take her time to slowly introduce and acclimate him to these new, industrial size grooming tools.
When we came back, we got the big reveal. I thought they gave us a different, cute, new, softer puppy! Both Yukako and Tatiana told us he was nervous at first, but that he was very sweet and did so good on the grooming table for his first time! (Remember, desensitization is also training!) He came out as a brand new, handsome boy. We would tell Tatiana was very very thorough with him, because he was so clean at every inch of him.
We are super delighted to recommend Dozo Dog to any pawrent looking to have their pup well taken care of, or even groomed very nicely. They've become our choice of daycare! read more