Doggy Day Care E-Book

Arden Moore

• Herausgeber: CompanionHouse Books
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Serie: Simple Solutions Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 22

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Feeling guilty as you rush off to work and leave your dog home alone? Today's dog owners can choose from many pet care options to give their dogs healthy, fun, and safe ways to spend their days. Doggy Day Care helps you compare the benefits of drop-off centers to the perks of hiring a dog walker or in-home pet sitter. If your pup stays home alone, learn practical tips on how to create a cozy, dog-proof area and curb boredom-induced destructiveness.

Leseprobe

Karla Austin, Business Operations Manager

Nick Clemente, Special Consultant

Jarelle S. Stein, Editor

Kendra Strey, Assistant Editor

Jill Dupont, Production

Michael Capozzi, Design

Copyright © 2005 by I-5 Press™

Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Buck Jones

The dogs in the book are referred to as he and she in alternating chapters.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of I-5 Press™, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moore, Arden.

Doggy day care / by Arden Moore ; illustrations by Buck Jones.

p. cm.—(Simple solutions)

ISBN 1-931993-44-0 (softcover : alk. paper)

eISBN 9781620080689

1. Dog day care. I. Title.

SF427.7M66 2005

636.7'0887—dc22

2005005785

I-5 Press™

A Division of I-5 Publishing, LLC™

3 Burroughs

Irvine, California 92618

Printed and bound in Singapore

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Contents

Introduction

Choosing the Right Day Care

Dog Walkers

Pet Sitters

Home-Alone Havens

Conclusion

Introduction

Hate good-byes? So does your dog. When you rush off to work each morning, all it takes is one mournful glance or a sorrowful howl from your dog to cause those guilt pangs to rise inside you. You feel a bit bummed that you must leave your canine pal home alone for hours.

At work, you may feel like an absentee dog parent as you wonder what your dog is doing. Is he OK? Is he happy? Worse—has he turned into destruct-o dog out of boredom or separation anxiety? When you walk through your front door, what will await you? Perhaps you will stumble upon a puddle on the living room carpet, a shredded pillow in the bedroom, or a broken vase in the dining room. You rush home to release your dog, who has been confined for eight to ten hours in the kitchen or the garage because he can’t be trusted unsupervised in your home.

Even if you discover no doggy misdeeds when you return home weary from a full workday and fighting bumper-to-bumper traffic, you may find that what stands between you and that relaxing recliner beckoning to you from the living room is your raring-to-go, tail-thumping dog, eager to break up the monotony of yet another boring day spent home alone.

Your heart plunges and guilt overwhelms you as you utter, “Sorry, pal, not right now.” That morning, you promised to play fetch or take him on a long walk after work, but now you’re too exhausted. Your dog gives you