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Fun Ideas for Your Business

The pet care business is a service-oriented business that does best with strong relationships: Relationships with the owners, with the dogs and between staff members.  Games and fun help all these relationships grow [...]

How High is Your Fun Factor?

All month we’ve been talking about increasing the fun factor at your pet care center. Safety is obviously important, but you need to balance the safety with fun.  Don’t [...]

Fit PAWS…Fun and Much More!

Everyone that works out at a gym or with a trainer knows the emphasis on strengthening your core for overall health, but have you ever thought about that in [...]

Dog Party Graphics

Members looking to use images shared by Debbie Oliver in the Step-by-Step Guides to Dog Parties can access them in this blog post. Right click on image and select “Save Image As” to [...]

Expect the Unexpected

We end our earth day week celebration being wildlife friendly. Now it may not seem like a property with dogs is compatible with a wildlife habitat or beautiful garden. [...]

Just Do It! Please!!!

How many times do you want to shout this phrase, most likely without the courtesy?  I’ve had many conversations with pet center operators and a common frustration seems to [...]

Have You Found the Missing Link?

Why do some service providers fall short of excellence?  What separates excellent providers from the average or baseline operators?  In this week’s article you’ll learn about the missing link [...]

Have You Achieved Excellence?

One of the key reasons we founded The Dog Gurus was to share the components of the best off-leash playgroups we had observed.  We hate hearing about dog injuries [...]

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