Paws At Play

don’t ever leave your dog in a place that doesn’t allow you to inspect the facility, visit your dog, or has no web cams.

People who get it. SImple. They love having my Black Lab «Joe» and he loves going there.

Great place, our dog loves coming here and gets super excited when he knows we are even in the area. The staff is very helpful and they stock a good selection of pet food and accessories. They have even special ordered specific dog food for us and stock dog leashes that have been made by hand right here in Gloucester!

I was excited to have and use Paws At Play in town as it isn’t always possible between work and other obligations to keep up with my high energy dog.
The facility seemed okay and the people were (generally) nice, but after two half day visits my dog won’t even approach the building. Once she realizes where we are going she becomes very anxious and if I manage to get her out of the car towards the building, it would be a matter of picking her up and forcing her inside. Instead I’m looking into other dog daycares.
After her last visit she refused to approach other dogs while being walked on leash in the neighborhood which is absolutely unlike her.
I don’t know what happened, I received no report on how she was doing or what her day was like or how she was interacting with the other dogs whenever I picked her up the few times she attended Paws At Play. This all makes me very uneasy. My dog is like another child and want to be confident of the care she receives.
My dog is in no way shape or form aggressive, Paws at Play states they do not take dogs with any sort of aggressive tendencies and if aggressive tendencies ARE shown the dog is immediately removed from the program. At this point I am not sure whether or not I believe that.
Someone at the dog park mentioned they had heard other people give the same sort of review about dogs refusing to go in, I honestly hope that isn’t true but think it’s fair people know what happened to us.
This was an upsetting experience, the convenience of a doggy daycare in town does not outweigh whatever mystery bad experience my dog had.