Small, personalized care for your dog and Dottie and her family are terrific. Love this place!read more

If you are looking for a good dog sitter that can handle it all, truly cares about your animals,…read moreand is a person that your animals will love and look forward to seeing look no further! My wife and i absolutely love using Mary and her company to watch after our dogs, and let me tell you, it isn't an easy task. we have three dogs ranging from an old lab who has trouble getting up the stairs, to a handicappable pibble, to an energetic lightning bolt of a puppy that enjoys long walks, carrying shoes, and digging holes under the fence. Mary is able to keep them all in line and i think the little devils actually enjoy us going out of town so they can see their friend! our Cat also loves Marry and she does a much better job than my wife and i of not overfeeding the hungry little butt! my wife and i love our animals, and we were always trepidatious about leaving town without them. but the great people at Pets' best friend have made us feel unbelievably confident and at ease when we are away from our little herd.

Have used Pets' Best Friend to care for our cats while we are away for over 10 years. Pets' Best…read moreFriend folks are the best! They take really great care of our four footed babies. Highly recommend if you love your pets and want them to stay at home while you are gone.

I think Stacey is wonderful!!! I can't say enough how great she was when she watched our 3 dogs and…read more2 cats while we were out of town recently. She goes above and beyond and is so meticulous in her care and her love for animals is very obvious! She knew our 1 dog was scared of thunderstorms and fireworks and came back over to check on him during a storm and during the 4th of July fireworks. I would highly recommend her and definitely will use her again!! She gave updates 3 times a day and sent pictures of the dogs & cats with each update. It made being gone so enjoyable because we knew they were in good hands. My husband said she's an angel. Lisa & Mike Duffy

I would highly recommend Release the Krakens to anyone looking for an exceptional pet…read moresitting/walking service. My family and I were headed out for a day trip and I needed my raw dog food picked up from our supplier as well as my pot belly pig, Rupert fed dinner. I called her with my strange requests and she didn't even hesitate to help me. She came over prior to that Saturday to learn what to do and how To feed Rupert. Instantly our pig loved her! When we were gone she sent me pictures and confirmed everything went as planned. My pets and I are so happy to have found such a wonderful company that treat ALL animals like family.

BEWARE!! This business and Mackenzie Sharp is a complete scam! Check with Greeley Police…read moredepartment. I am missing my grandmothers sterling flatware and pearls since she house set for me. Both of my elderly dogs have crossed the rainbow bridge this summer. Both in the weeks immediately following her care. Did she neglect them? Did she not give them their medication? I am sick and heartbroken.

THIS WAS TRULY A NIGHTMARE OF AN EXPERIENCE. I had never had…read morea house/pet sitter before. And I have never written a Yelp review before, however our horrible experience has compelled me to write a review so that nobody else experiences the same thing that we did. We hired Mackenzie Sharp of Walk the Dog. We interviewed several people, and eventually decided on Mackenzie. We have a little zoo.... four dogs, a cat, a lizard and a snake. We also have a garden that needs watering. Two of our dogs have high anxiety issues. We were looking for someone to live in our home, and to be there the majority of the time. Mackenzie assured us that this would be what she would do, and may be gone 4-5 hours mid day, but otherwise would be there. She also shared with us that she would be the only person coming into our home. I appreciated this especially because we have rescue dogs that can still be quite nervous, and I am hesitant to have them meet any new person without me present....I just wouldn't want them to react negatively. We went over the instructions clearly, and also wrote out everything in detail, including medication that needed to be given to two of the dogs twice per day. Mackenzie assured us that she would communicate regularly and send photos regularly. We left town on Friday June 30, 2017. Mackenzie came to our home early that morning so she would be there when we left. Over the next few days our communication was sporadic with Mackenzie. She wouldn't always respond and we received one photo. On Sunday evening around 11:00 our meighbors attempted to reach me through text. I did not see this text until Monday morning. When I called them they had said that our dogs had been barking in the back yard from approximately 3pm until 3am. They said it was a very anxious and comsistent (every minute) barking at the back yard. They said that other people were yelling at our dogs to stop and that someone had been walking around blowing a dog whistle. They said this had gone on Friday and Saturday night as well. I then attempted to reach Mackenzie. After a couple of hours she returned my call. She said that she was dealing with a spider infestation in her home and she wasn't able to be at my home as much. She also told me that her boyfriend had been coming over to help her at our house. We contacted some friends of ours who agreed to take the dogs, and we had Mackenzie bring them there. When we returned home we found urine all over the home. It took us awhile to calm the dogs, and retrain one of them to not urinate in the home. And so to summarize, we hired Mackenzie to live in our home while we were away, feed, walk, give medicine to, and be with our pets. Instead, she was hardly ever there. She left the dogs either inside or outside for 12 plus hours at a time. They did not get their medication when needed. Our home was covered with at least 30 urine spots. She did not communicate with us to let us know there was an issue. She let a stranger to our dogs into our home (when it was clear this wasn't supposed to happen). I am more than frustrated with this situation. Mackenzie Sparp may look good on paper. She may seem like a good fit when you meet her, but she is not a woman of her word. I felt deceived, lied to, and most of all sorry that our pets were out through this. I was also very frustrated with the time and money that we had to put into cleaning our carpets. On top of that, we were put in a position of needing to apologize to many surrounding neighbors for the disturbance. My recommendation is that you STEER CLEAR OF MACKENZIE SHARP AND WALK THE DOG.

Our pups loved their time at Ellie's Playhouse! They sent daily updates with photos which was so…read morenice. Our dogs were well taken care of and so content/happy when we arrived home (They've been anxious in the past staying at other pet sitters). Our doodle is a shy girl, so I was a bit worried about her but she loved her stay and ended up being best pals with them! Highly highly recommend!

Ellie's Playhouse exceeded our expectations. I was nervous as a new puppy parent to leave Ranger…read morefor the first time. Marissa made us feel at ease with her daily reports and constant communication. Not only was she great with us as owners but the pictures were proof she was great with the pups too. Ranger did not want to leave, he was having a blast! We would recommend Ellie's Playhouse to anyone in the Salt Lake area who wants their pet to get the same care they get at home! We will be coming back! Here's a couple of our favorite photos she sent to us!

I wish I could do minus stars because this would definitely be a minus. Our 3rd stay here never any…read moreissue before dropped my 3 dogs off on Thursday because we are going to California for the weekend. Get a call at 4 pm on Friday saying come get your dogs we have kennel cough and need to clear everyone out. (Now I will have to take off a day to go to the vet to have my boys checked out from this terrible experience when I get home).Thank god we had family able to go get them. I will never go here again nor would I recommend this to anyone. I realize not their fault but this has put my dogs at risk and made for a very stressful weekend so much for a nice vacation.

The owner of this kennel restricts breeds. That is the first problem. I called with my 3 dogs to…read moresee if I could schedule to have them kenneled in a month or so. Because I own a pit bull, I was told I needed to schedule a full day of dog daycare for all 3 of my dogs to see how they would do. I did! The full day of daycare my dogs did great. No complaints and no signs of aggression. DUH! So I scheduled them to be kenneled for 4 days. My husband and I dropped off our dogs and could immediately see the uneasiness in the owner. We were flying out in 2 1/2 hours. An hour after we dropped the dogs off the owner called and said she could not keep the dogs because they were "too wild and were trying to eat every dog that walked by their kennel." I have a boxer, pit bull and a Yorkshire terrier. I find this very difficult to believe, plus the full day of daycare showed no signs of anything she was telling me. So now 1 1/2 hours away from our flight departure we turn around and pick the dogs up and take them to another kennel. While waling the dogs out another dog growled, barked and showed his teeth at my dogs, but that dog was not too aggressive because it was not a pit bull. I WILL NEVER TAKE MY DOGS HERE AGAIN!!!!! The owner is rude and not qualified to handle dogs if she has fear of the animal don't work with them!!!!!!

PLEASE READ ! if I could give a zero I would!…read more My husband and I trusted this place when we kenneled out dog for about a full 5 days. She was healthy and happy when we dropped her off. When we picked her up, that was not the case. she was lethargic when we picked her up but we thought maybe she was just tired and was decompressing from the stay, but she did have a little bit of weez to her breathing. The following day she had a full on cough (still does) and a confirmed case of kennel cough. I called the kennel and spoke to someone named Kelsey and told her what was going on and she said that the owners were out of town but they would call me the following day. I had to call back three times to finally get a callback from the owners. The only concern from the owner was that I did not leave a bad review for them because I would be putting his business and his employee's jobs in jeopardy. He did not offer to compensate her stay, he did not offer to help with the vet bill, and was not even apologetic about our dog being so sick. They had to have known she was sick and when I spoke to Kelsey, she said that she could not confirm or deny if any other dog had came down with kennel cough during the same time that she was staying there so they aren't even telling other pet parents that kennel cough is going around at their kennel!!!!. To top it off, not only did they not tell us she was showing signs of kennel cough, we brought her home where she was reunited with her 13-year-old "sister" If we would've known she was sick we could have kept them separate and prevented the spread of kennel cough in our own home. After this experience, I did some digging and not too long ago they lost a dog, and it has never been found! Please think twice before you use this facility! NEVER AGAIN!

Refused service because policy changes surrounding dog aggression. My dog had boarded there in the…read morepast with absolutely no issues. Prior to a previous stay, I mentioned that my dog is protective of her home and owner, she was allowed to board and had no issues with behavior during stay. Under new policies she is flagged and not allowed to board. New policies are not noted on the website, as it still says they are willing to take dogs of all temperaments. They do a great job on their website of selling a level of K9 expertise that is apparently not present