Bed Bark And Beyond

After speaking with one of the owners Mary I am changing my review. She is refunding our 2 day stay to go towards the vet bill. Her concern is appreciated. Perhaps this was just not a good fit for my dog as I had heard quite a few good things about this place.

We would agree with what Susan H. said. We had a similar situation with our dog. She stayed there for 6 hours on a Sunday. When we picked her up at 3:30 PM and were driving home she started to whimper and we did not know why until we got home and saw puncture wounds on both the interior and exterior surfaces of her left rear leg as well as bite wounds on her neck. After discovering that she was bleeding from the wounds on her leg, we called Bed, Bark and Beyond (BB&B) and was told by the owner to apply hydrogen peroxide to the wounds in order to minimize any infection. Finding that we could not stop the bleeding, we decided to take our dog to the emergency room (Blue Pearl) in Tacoma at 4:00 PM. We were not able to pick up our dog until after her surgery was completed at 12:30 AM on Monday. Once we got our dog home, she cried and whimpered for three days even though she was on pain medication and sedated. What disappoints us the most is that when we picked up our dog, we were not told (by the employee of BB&B) of any altercation between our dog and two other dogs during her brief stay. We were told in a subsequent conversation that our dog was (at times) «snippy» — even though we had taken our dog to BB&B for over the past 3 years (since she was 7 months old) with no mention of our dog’s behavior towards other dogs. We did file a formal complaint with Pierce County Animal Control in order to document this occurrence and were thanked by the Animal Control Officer for filing a report and bringing this matter to their attention. As a follow-​up, our dog has had her drainage tube removed from her leg and we anxiously await the removal of her stitches this coming week.

My two dogs love going to Bed, Bark and Beyond. They come home happy and tired. Never any problems with boarding and the grooming has been great. Justin is very helpful and gives great feedback on the boys’ behavior. I never worry about the dogs being there whether it is for the day or a couple of weeks.

We moved to Fox Island in January and were so lucky to find Justin at Bed Bark and Beyond. Our dog loves Justin and his facility… it’s like a home away from home. He takes all the stress out of leaving our dog!
Diana J

I wasn’t going to write anything until I saw the photo and comments by Susan H. I now realize that my post may have been helpful. My dogs boarded for 2 weeks in 2014 and when I returned, one of my dogs had sores allover his muzzle from a rubber muzzle thay had placed on him for an unknown duration of that 2 week stay. The location is beautiful and the dogs have access to an open yard and indoors but were not well supervised. All sizes of dogs mingle together which can be nice but the supervision is not consisent enough for safety. The muzzle was placed on my dog for convenience and he got injured and infected from it. It took several weeks before he allowed me to put his collar on as he appeared to be traumatized.

We use this place any time we need to be away and we love it. It takes a trip or two for a puppy to get used to it, but now our dog Cinnamon is an adult and it’s a piece of cake and she’s well cared for when she is there.

Doggie day care turned into Doggie Torture for our sweet Viszla! We told the owner that our pup preferred playing with humans over other dogs and would need to be acclimated. He said all the right things, leading us to believe our dog would be in a safe and caring environment. When we picked her up we noticed a mark on her side. The owner said she ran into a fence. When we got home we looked closer and saw teeth marks, We also found a bite on her check, a bite on her ear that punctured the ear, a bite under her ear and a bite under her leg. We were horrified! Did the owner not hear her crying? Did he not even watch to make sure she was with the right group of dogs? It saddens and angers us to think of what she must have gone through that day.