Doggie Problems

A couple weeks ago we booked the dogs into our regular doggie daycare for our upcoming trip to Wisconsin.  Three days after the appointment was booked the daycare called us to inform us they cannot take the girls because Madison does not do well when they have a full house of 50 dogs.  What?!?!  We were confused because this is the first time we have heard that in the four years we have been taking them there.  Andy returned their call the next day and they explained that the time frame we booked the dogs is when they are really busy with 50 - 60 dogs and Madison does not do well when they have more than 40 dogs at the daycare.  Apparently she gets really shy and uncomfortable, won't go outside and then won't come back inside.  I guess when they have 50 - 60 dogs they don't have time to deal with a high maintenance dog such as Madison.  They tend to have this many dogs at the daycare on all holidays, so now Madison is banned from that place on all holidays.  GREAT!  At first I was super annoyed that yet again, Madison is a problem.  Once I got over it I realized that this is probably a good thing because we have needed to find a backup daycare place anyway in case they were full at a time when we need to go out of town.  Also, it would be nice to find a backup closer to our house because the other place is a 45 - 50 minute drive from our house...kind of annoying.

Andy and I both hit the Internet to find out all of our options close to our house. Once we reviewed all the websites Andy narrowed it down to two that he liked while I only liked one option.  The next thing was to do a site visit.  I called and told the place how I liked what I saw on their website, but asked if I could come in for a tour to make sure I liked it in person and felt comfortable leaving our dogs there.  Of course they said yes.  Last Saturday Andy and I went on a site visit to see if this place close to our house would do for our upcoming WI trip and for our backup when the other place has too many dogs for poor shy Madison.  We got a tour and both Andy and I really like the place and would feel good about our babies staying there.

As I was driving home I asked myself "Did we really just do that?  Did we really just go do a site visit for doggie daycare?"  Yes, we did and I am definitely proud of it.  Our doggies are spoiled, but they do deserve nothing but the best.