What's new at Preferred Pet Care?

Since there is so much new stuff going on at Preferred Pet Care we gave the dogs the day off to play.  Don’t worry though “A Day in the life of a Dog” will be back next week featuring one of our fabulous pups!

Who would you like to see featured as our dog of the week photo opt or tell their story in the “A day in the Life of a Dog” blog?  Suggest your pup today, send us your favorite photos of your pups so that we can add them to our photo albums. 

*Starting in December our “A day in the Life of a Dog” blog will premier on Thursday- so make your suggestions today on who you would like to see featured.  Additionally because of popular demand we will not only be having our weekly photo opt of the dog of the week but we will now be expanding it to our “Daycare Dog of the Week” featured on Fridays and our “Boarding Dog of the Week” which will be featured on Mondays.

Starting January 2^nd, 2013 we will begin our “Birthday Club”.  Register your dog’s birthday & receive a free day of daycare* in their birthday month.  *Dog must have already passed Preferred Pet Care’s Trial Day; birthday club promotion is non-transferable and has no cash value.  All terms and conditions of the client service agreement dated 05/03/2012 apply.  In order to redeem your free day of daycare your dog must have been here within 4 months of their birth date.  Dogs cannot have more than 1 birthday per calendar year.  If you do not know your dog’s actual birthday (ie: if they are a shelter dog) you may make an educated guess or why not celebrate their adoption day!* Remember to sign up today!

Starting in January we would also like to begin featuring a “Pet of the Month” story.  Do you have an amazing adoption story, want to share about your favorite breeder, or just have a great funny or heartwarming story about your pup?  Send it to us!  We love to hear about it & would love to share it with our customers!  Each month we will pick a fabulous story and post it along with a photo of our featured pet.  For entries please send us your pup’s story to PreferredPetCare@gmail.com.  Please include a photo, your pet’s name, age, breed, favorite activities, special skills, etc. 

 

Sneak Peak: This month at Preferred Pet Care our featured product is our new VIP Products- Mighty Dog toys, Rugged Rubber, & Silly Squeakers.   

Some of our NEWEST Tuffy Toys are: Ray Ray Stingray, The General Starfish, Neelmo Eel, Larry Lobster, King Crab, Burtle Turtle, and Captain Kurklops

Some of our Newest Mighty Toys are: Bunny McHop, Drake McQuck, Foxy Fox, Percy Possum, Safari Elephant, Arctic Walrus, Safari Giraffe, and Arctic Seal.

Our BRAND NEW, never been carried before at Preferred Pet Care, proud to announce our NEW Rugged Rubber toys from VIP Products: Bomb, Dynamite, Grenade.

Wondering what to bring to your next dog friendly holiday party, what about a nice bottle of Kennel Relaxin.  Kennel Relaxin is one of VIP’s Silly Squeaker collections, a novelty dog toy. 

How strong are VIP Products?  Check them out for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBekk0TdVb4 (Tiger playing with one of the Tuffy Octopus toys)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW6d5W85h24 (Tiger playing with some of the other Tuffy toys).  Remember though the Tuffy Toys are not chew toys.  If you are looking specifically for a chew toy we would suggest a super durable rubber toy such as Nylabone, Kong brands, or certain VIP Products (such as their Rugged Rubber line).  Always make sure you are using the product as directed.  Additionally all dog chew toys have a certain element of risk involved.  Extra strong chewers can tear apart just about anything, even so called indestructible rubber.  With forethought and supervision, you can make your dog toys as safe as possible. 

Ruby!

We would like to start out our weekly blog with HAPPY THANKSGIVING!


What do you have to be thankful for this holiday season?

Preferred Pet Care is extremely thankful for so much.  As many people have experience trying times during this difficult time with super storm Sandy we would like to thank all of our customers, and we are thankful for all of you each and every day. 

We hope you and your family/friends have a wonderful holiday season!

Now back to the dogs…

Today, one of our daycare pups, Ruby a black lab decided to take a moment to tell us about her day.  Ruby is a black Labrador Retriever, who is a long time customer and has been coming for years. 

Was today daycare day?  I was so confused with my days.  We lost power for TWELVE DAYS; it seemed like an eternity, and in dog years that was like 84 days.  WOW!  I was so excited when we got our power back I ran around the house jumping for joy.  The best part about power back on, that meant back to daycare with my taxi service home.  Dad called for me to get leashed up and to hop in the car, and I knew, we must be going to Preferred Pet Care!  Wonderful!

When I arrived at Preferred Pet Care Crystal checked me in and then I got my belly rubbed.  I’m a big mush, and people can’t help but give me love.  After some TLC I went out to join my friends Joe and the pups in the playgroup.  Oscar, Spud & Gritz, Faraday, Eddie, Wilson, Cecil, Ollie, Benji and Sammy, the whole usual Tuesday crew was here.  Kayla was even already waiting for me to play!  Kayla, is one of my fellow doggie taxi friends, she must be boarding at Preferred Pet Care.  I made my usual rounds saying hello to all of my friends.  Oscar was roaming around with Gritz following close behind.  Eddie was playing with Rufus (another boarding and frequent daycare pup) and Faraday, with Scout (one of my new friends, who just started coming to Preferred Pet Care) chiming in to play too.  Cecil and Ollie were playing off to the side, they are great friends.  Wilson was off playing with Watson (They’re apart of the Lab/Golden Doodle club).  Sammy was already practicing for his circus routine by jumping from post to post.  Silly Sammy.  And of course Benji was welcoming all the incoming pups and check in on how they’ve been.  Benji loves to check and see what everyone is up to.  Benji and I chit-chatted about our Thanksgiving Day plans.  Apparently Benji is quite the little Chef.  He has the whole menu planned out.  I have no clue what we are doing for Thanksgiving, I’m just hoping Dad will sneak me a little turkey. 

It was an extremely interesting day at Preferred Pet Care we got to move from yard 5 to yard 3 back to yard 5 it was very exciting.  The fence company was there fixing some minor issues from Hurricane Sandy.  Thankfully Preferred Pet Care was very lucky in the storm and just had some slight fence damage.  They did a great job fixing one of the yards to make sure it was in tip top shape.

It was a very exciting day I met a lot of new and some old friends I haven't seen in awhile.  Everyone was coming to board at Preferred Pet Care because Thanksgiving was coming.  Pepper decided it would be a great idea for everyone to go around and tell everyone what they are thankful for.  Pepper started- I'm thankful for daycare at Preferred Pet Care.  Pepper is very high energy and practically comes to daycare every day.  A tired dog is a happy dog.  Next was Rocky, Winnie & Shayna after arguing about who should go first Shayna decided to speak on behalf of them and said they were thankful for all their wonderful friends at preferred pet care.  Next Lizzy said she and her brother Benny were thankful for their family and their health.  Eddie was up next, "Oh Lizzy you stole mine I'm happy for my family too.  Well I'm also thankful for all my toys and bones" he stated.  Then it was my turn. Hmm what was I thankful for?  I'm thankful for so many things all my friends at preferred pet care (both human and all fours), my family, food, my home, power, which one should I pick?  So I finally decided to go with that I'm thankful for everything.  We went around the group.  Some pups said food, their favorite toy(s), their family, their home, being adopted, power; the list went on and on.  We all realized we had a lot to be thankful for.

I had such a busy day the time just flew by.  Before I knew it Marci was calling us into Yard 2 to get leashed up to get on the taxi.  Boy what a day!  Thanks a lot for letting me tell you all about my day!  Enjoy your holiday!  And remember despite that we may give you the sad puppy eyes don't give in (too much) to table scraps on Thanksgiving.

A day in the life of... Tecumseh!

Tecumseh was delighted to tell us all about his day.  Tecumseh though is very loquacious and decided to even write his story from his point of view.  We hope you enjoy!

Hi!  My name is Tecumseh but my friends all call me Tec.  I'm an itchy yellow lab who loves to come to play at Preferred Pet Care.  I'm so excited that today I get to tell you all about my day.

My day began with Doug picking me on the taxi.  I love car rides.  I was delighted to see Doug saved me a seat on the bus, I enjoy a window seat but unfortunately I can't stick my head out, oh well.  On our way to daycare we stopped along the way to pick up all my buddies.  I couldn't wait to get to daycare I was ready to play!

Once we arrived at daycare I got to run around with my "bus mates" in our own private yard as Tim watched us.  I'm ready to go to the big group I kept saying to him, but silly humans don't speak Bark.  I even tried my hand at my Bow-wow but humans don't seem to speak that either.  Finally he must have understood my woof-woof and I got to join Brian and all my four legged friends in the main play group.  Yes!  Floyd was there!  Fabulous, Floyd and I are somewhat of handful when we get playing we get all the pups crazy!  Don't worry it's all in good fun we just don't listen when we are in the play zone.  

After playing with Floyd for a while I decided it was time to start our daily howl.  I'm not much of a howler.  But since Page—who in my opinion is the best howler—wasn't here today I figured I would try my hand at leading the daily howl. I am a natural born leader.  I'm Tecumseh I’m names after a Native American leader.  Bark bark, woof-woof, bow-wow.  Nope something was missing I could t get my pitch right.  “Don't worry”, Stanley said, I will show you, “HOWwwwwl!”  It's all in dragging out the “w”.  “Hhhhowl”, Frodo said, “No Stanley it's all about dragging out the ‘h’ to get the proper howl.”  “No way!” Stanley said.  “Ah, yes way”, said Frodo.  If you couldn't guess Stanley and Frodo are brothers.  While they debated over if it was dragging out the “w” for the proper howl or the “h” the rest of us figured it was howling time so we continued on with each of our own version of the howl.

"Can I have Tecumseh in the grooming room please?" I could hear coming from Brian's radio.  OoOo grooming room, I wonder what's in there.  Brian sent me out of the group and I was escorted to the grooming room.  Who do I see in the grooming room but Brigitte the groomer!  I guess that's what in the grooming room.  Sniff sniff, hmm, that's smell must not be me.  Brigitte must have wanted company...  Nope, mom must have decided I was getting a little stinky.  Bath time!  At first I wasn't too sure if I was going to be a fan I must admit I was a little nervous.  But once I got in the tub and was getting scrubbed and brushed it was just what I needed.  I hot a deshedding treatment that was simply amazing I got all that thick undercoat out, I felt like I lost ten pounds in hair alone!  And I got a nice soothing oatmeal bath, ahhhh my dry itchy skin instantly started feeling better.  Once I get home I will have to thank mom for my spa day, it was exactly what I needed!

After spending some quality time with Brigitte I was brought to my own private room.  I had a big bowl of water setup for me with a nice comfy blanket.  I was exhausted from my spa day so I decided to rest a little.  Dave came to visit me and give me some loving; he spent some time petting me.  The royal treatment today, oh boy!  What a lucky dog I am!  Then Dave took me outside and I got to play ball.  I really enjoy chasing the tennis ball in the yard.  I was trying to stay clean so I had my own personal me afternoon, all of us need a little one on one time don't you think?

Grumble grumble... Oh I could hear my tummy rumbling.  Must be almost time to go take the bus home and once I get home... Dinner!  Tecumseh, what number are you? Doug asked.  I don't know, math is not my strong point.  No worries though Doug figured out what number I was and got me leashed up.  So long folks it’s time for me to hit the road, see you tomorrow!

Oh Sandy...

Sorry about the delay in our weekly blog, a little storm called Sandy threw us off…

Preferred Pet Care would like to thank each and every one of our staff members for their hard work, especially over this past couple days during Hurricane Sandy.  Many of our staff members lost power themselves however with their hard work and dedication Preferred Pet Care was able to run as smooth as possible.  We would also like to thank all of our loyal customers. 

We are thankfully up and running on a normal schedule.  Again thank you for being understanding and cooperative during our abbreviated hours during our power outage.  We hope you and your families are staying warm and safe during this recovery period. 

If Preferred Pet Care can be of any assistance during this recovery period please let us know. 

All of the pups who were boarding and ended up boarding due to the Hurricane were safe and sound. 

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If you do not already have a natural disaster plan in place for your pet, remember to form one now, before the next storm hits. 

The following tips will help prepare for natural disasters:

1.  Obtain a rescue alert sticker, which will let rescuers know that pets are inside your home. Make sure it is visible and that it includes: 1) the types and number of pets in your household; 2) the name of your veterinarian; and 3) your veterinarian's phone number.

2.  Always bring pets indoors at the first sign or warning of a storm or disaster. Pets can become disoriented and wander away from home during a crisis.

3.  Make sure all pets wear collars and tags with up-to-date identification. The ASPCA recommends micro-chipping your pet as a more permanent form of identification.

4.  Arrange a safe haven for your pets in the event of evacuation. Do not leave your pets behind.  *If you cannot reach Preferred Pet Care by phone please stop by the facility or make sure you “Like Us” on Facebook.  Preferred Pet Care’s Facebook account has the most up to date information and will use it to post if our phone lines are not operational.

5.  Keep a pet emergency kit and supplies handy with items such as medical records, water, pet food and medications, and pet first aid supplies.  *Please note—VERY IMPORTANT—if there is an emergency and you must board your pup with Preferred Pet Care we still require (regardless of natural disasters, emergencies, etc) to have all updated immunizations.  Remember to always have up to date copies with you just in case your veterinarian is not open.  Preferred Pet Care requires proof of Parvo/Distemper, Bordatella, Rabies, and both the 1^st & 2^nd dose of the Canine Influenza. 

For more information on disaster preparedness and safety tips from the ASPCA, please visit www.aspca.org/pet-care/disaster-preparedness/.