New York Times and Dog Parks
The New York Times recently published a guest essay entitled “Dog Parks Are Great for People. Too Bad They’re Terrible for Dogs.” The crux of the essay was that, while we humans think of dog parks as an “oasis” from urban life, it would be wiser to think of them as “undersupervised and vaguely dirty…
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Fear Free at Pet Camp’s Ranger Station
Fear Free Certified at Pet Camp’s Ranger Station Most of you already know that all Pet Camp managers and supervisors that directly interact with the dogs at the Main Campground are Fear Free Certified. We think we are the only pet care facility in the San Francisco Bay Area that can make this claim.…
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Holy Sh*t – I Agree with Governor Abbott about Something
As a proud San Franciscan, I take great pleasure in disagreeing with the political leaders of the big red states, so it pains me – really-really pains me to have to publicly admit that I agree with Governor Abbott from the State of Texas on something. I know, there are a lot of “things” out…
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Transporting multiple dogs in a van? Use crates!
We’ve all seen it. You’re driving around San Francisco and after passing some Waymo car without a driver (which still freaks me out), you pass a van or a pickup truck with a shell and there are a bunch of dogs wandering, or on San Francisco’s streets more like bouncing around, in the back. We’re…
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Investing in San Francisco and Your Dog
I moved to San Francisco in September 1988. I had been to California twice before: once for three days in Oakland to take the California Bar Exam, and the second for three days in San Francisco to look at neighborhoods I might want to live in when I moved here. Besides that, with no tie…
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Should I Neuter My Dog? When Should I Neuter My Dog?
One of the unique things about Pet Camp (and, with only a bit of modesty, there are a lot of unique things about Pet Camp – glass retractable roof anybody?) is that we don’t have a bright line rule by which dogs need to be spayed or neutered to come to Pet Camp. While many…
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