06/16/2025
Morning Pupdate 🐾☀️
Daycare resumes as normal today—let the chaos commence! 🎉
Let us tell you about yesterday… ✋️ Whew. We had dogs checking out at an average of one every 7 minutes ⏰️. Father's Day weekend has officially joined the ranks of Thanksgiving and Christmas as one of our busiest boarding times of the year! Previous years were the same! 🤯
The weekend felt more like a dog party than a kennel. Newcomers blended right in with our regular crew, and the energy was through the roof. These dogs, I swear 🤣 — we think they’ve come to a unanimous decision: Bark House needs a designated digging area. 🚧
The infamous bottomless pit remains a fan favorite. Honestly, if you saw it, you'd think a pack of feral hogs snuck in 🐖.
But here’s the thing, digging is natural dog behavior. 😄 Roughly 83% of dogs dig given the opportunity, especially high-energy breeds, terriers, and scent hounds. It’s rooted in instincts, whether it’s cooling off, hiding food, or just burning energy.
While most owners try to curb digging at home (understandably) 😅, we say dig away! 👍
At Bark House, dogs are free to express their true nature. That means barking, digging, jumping, zooming, and just being gloriously ridiculous. **On the barking subject, what we allow is barking in small increments during play. We discourage attention barking and alert barking (domino effect).
Because here's what we believe:
Let them destroy our toys.
Let them dig our holes.
Let them bark here.
They need healthy outlets for these behaviors, and daycare gives them that space, without anyone stressing over a ruined lawn. And no, we don't charge for ruined items here. They're dogs. It's going to happen. 🫴
This is where a dog can just be a dog, and we mean that. 🐶🩷
(Pictured below is the bottomless pit, soon to be designated digging area, that the dogs love adding to, defending, and laying in)
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