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Being Green – Saving Greenbacks & Trees
Too often small businesses think that being green is just something for tree hugging San Franciscans in their Birkenstocks. Well, as a small business owner located in San Francisco [...]
Benefits of Operating Green
Having owned and operated a successful “all green” pet boarding facility for fifteen years, and being an advocate for implementing healthier, non-toxic practices, I am frequently asked isn’t being [...]
When and Where Do the Boarding Dogs Play?
Centers that provide daycare and boarding services have several options when offering off-leash play services as an activity. Do you create separate groups for the boarding dogs? How long [...]
Ways to Use a Dog Trainer in Your Facility
Over the past 20+ years, The Dog Gurus have seen the daycare industry move from stand alone daycare facilities to facilities that are one-stop shops offering pet parents a wide range of services. [...]
Trainer Payment Options Simplified
Discussion forums frequently rotate through the topic of how to pay a trainer and most responses focus on commission percentages. This is really the last step in deciding how [...]
The Training/Daycare Partnership
I’m a dog trainer who opened a dog daycare. I loved merging my two services together. In hindsight, I realized one of the advantages I had was that I always had one or [...]
Dog Training Methods and Tools
There is a joke among dog trainers that if you get three trainers together, the only thing 2 of them will agree upon is that the third person is wrong. Sadly, the dog [...]
Tools for Dog Training and Management
This month we’re focusing on teaching the staff how to train dogs to respond to specific cues while they are at the pet care facility. Using Come, Sit and Wait, your staff can [...]
Teaching Your Staff To Train the Dogs
The Dog Gurus are huge advocates of establishing a solid partnership between the off-leash playgroup staff and a dog training staff. There is a great deal of synergy between those two groups which [...]
