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I am going to visit my friend who lives in Middleboro, MA in late May/Early June. Since I will be driving up to Vermont after my visit I am bringing Belle with me. I don't want to totally impose on my friend so I need to find a place to leave Belle during my visit. Do any of you know of a kennel, dog daycare or some other boarding facility in the Middleboro area that would take good care of my little girl? If not do any of you have friends that have dogs that might?
Thanks in advance!!
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We are looking at boarding kennels for our puppy. Koda is an 11 month old Choc. lab and weighs 95 lbs We need one for when we go to WDW in August. We are researching places that have big yards for play, not just runs. I'm going to call the breeder we bought him from for some ideas. If I find one we think is good, I'll let you know!
Good luck!
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I don't know if it covers the Middleboro area, but check out the book "City Dog: Boston", which lists and rates all sorts of doggy places, including daycare and kennels and dog parks. I know it covers Boston and its suburbs of up to at least 30 min. away. I'm not sure where Middleboro is, though.
There is also a book for all of New England, which covers Vermont, if you need it for when you're up there. It isn't a City Dog book, but you should be able to find it on Barnes & Noble's Web site - it also was listed in one of the side columns in the most recently mailed-to-subscribers issue of "Dog Fancy".
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I don't know if it covers the Middleboro area, but check out the book "City Dog: Boston", which lists and rates all sorts of doggy places, including daycare and kennels and dog parks. I know it covers Boston and its suburbs of up to at least 30 min. away. I'm not sure where Middleboro is, though.
Thanks, I am well aware of the resouces out there to find kennels etc...however I don't feel real great about just picking at place out of a book and bringing my dog there.
I have a place in Vermont that she goes to called Gullivers Doggy Daycare. She had a BLAST there when I took her last year in July.
If anyone from Boston could please ask around for me...I would greatly appreciate it! THANKS!!
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I'll have my husband ask around his work. He works in Boston. We are not dog people though, so I'm not sure if he'll remember. He can't even remember to bring home a gallon of milk.
Thanks, I am well aware of the resouces out there to find kennels etc...however I don't feel real great about just picking at place out of a book and bringing my dog there.
The book rates the places - the author visited them and such - so it isn't just a listing.
There used to be a Web site all about this type of stuff for the Boston area, but the person who owned it never renewed the domain name and the ppl who took it over downloaded Google's cache of it and put that up there - while adding their links to porno sites and whatnot.
You might want to see if there are any Yahoo! Groups on this kind of thing. Oh, and I know there is a site for dog owners who live in Somerville (SomDogs I think they call themselves), but again, I don't know where the city you are going to is located, so you'll have to figure out if that is close by or not.
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I asked my hubby and he tried to ask around work. He's sorry he could not be of more help! Most of the people who work for him don't have pets. Strange.
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We need one for when we go to WDW in August. We are researching places that have big yards for play, not just runs. I'm going to call the breeder we bought him from for some ideas. If I find one we think is good, I'll let you know!
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