since i'm going to vegas....need to find boarding for my pet..petsmart is already full...any other decent priced vets?

12/4/2006 1:49:22 PM

what kind of pet, im sure someone would watch it for ya.

12/4/2006 2:17:51 PM

did you use the search?

12/4/2006 2:18:37 PM

9 lb shih tzu...see pics in gallery.....need to drop off 12/18 pick up 12/23....anyone help please?!

12/4/2006 2:25:12 PM

My dog always was good at crossroads vet.

or the one on maynard in cary, by the train tracks... forgot the name of it, used it a few times before i left cary.

she like that one too.

12/4/2006 2:27:02 PM

yeah i heard about the maynard one too but can't remember the name..is it northwoods?

12/4/2006 2:39:32 PM

mayfair? northwoods is on maynard, but not next to the railroad tracks

[Edited on December 4, 2006 at 3:04 PM. Reason : ...]

12/4/2006 3:02:56 PM

Cary Veterinary Hospital 919-469-0947 1233 NE Maynard Rd Cary NC 27513

12/4/2006 3:08:40 PM

the other side of maynard, i hate that road, everything is near chatham and old apex where it crosses the train tracks

12/4/2006 3:09:41 PM

thanks i called around:

Town Country 387-7833 $26/night
Leesville 870-7000 $22-$24
Pupsi 460-9909 $20
Cary Vet 919-469-0947 $20
Northwood 481-2987 $19.80
Green Level Kennels 362-7877 $18
Mayfair 467-6146 $17.50

I ended up reserving at Green Level b/c 1. price. 2. great reviews 3. proximity

http://triangle.citysearch.com/review/6150076

wish me luck! and thanks so much everyone

12/4/2006 3:18:56 PM

I'm amazed we are cheaper...

12/4/2006 3:19:36 PM

wow, with boarding you really want to go with reviews over price.

hope all goes well!

12/4/2006 3:20:10 PM

we? you work at one of these places....should have said.....i can still switch

12/4/2006 3:20:56 PM

pay a friend to do it

12/4/2006 3:21:19 PM

definitely, there are no reviews for our kennel, just the vets, i don't know if that is good or bad.


i actually manage the kennel at mayfair (was a receptionist for over a year until october), but we recommend greenlevel when we fill up, and we are small so we fill up fast.

(greenlevel sends us goodies a lot, we ♥ them)

[Edited on December 4, 2006 at 3:24 PM. Reason : ...]

12/4/2006 3:21:33 PM

^^ i hope reviews are not falsified LOL

^ yeah i'm still looking for a friend as another resort....but hate to bother ppl

btw, i called petsmart just for fun....they are like way overbooked....said 20 page waitlist

12/4/2006 3:22:06 PM

elise - which vet u work at...maybe i'll pay a visit bring cookie

12/4/2006 3:22:47 PM

mayfair animal hospital

12/4/2006 3:24:36 PM

nice...we currently take cookie to Town & Country as the vet...have been for 4 years pretty happy...previously was with Parkway Animal Hospital.....on old apex/cary pkwy...

hated that place.....they always try to gouge me for more money......and one time cookie stayed there for boarding when i picked up her she had sh*t on her nose and wreaked....never again

12/4/2006 3:29:02 PM

town and county was number one in cary this year, we were last year and now we are number two

12/4/2006 3:31:20 PM

is there a list somewhere?

12/4/2006 3:36:56 PM

i'm sure there is, i wouldn't know where, it was announced at a meeting

12/4/2006 3:40:46 PM

i told her she's going to the kennel, and she gave me the deadly look



[Edited on December 4, 2006 at 3:46 PM. Reason : ouch]

12/4/2006 3:46:26 PM

my doggie hearts the kennel, he likes the other doggies

12/4/2006 3:56:37 PM

^Correction, he likes to hump the other doggies.

12/4/2006 5:42:50 PM

no, he only humps the cat, and there is no doggie contact at mayfair. when we visit my sister her dog humps him.

12/4/2006 10:49:39 PM

[Edited on December 4, 2006 at 10:55 PM. Reason : duh.]

12/4/2006 10:55:05 PM

Quote :

" nice...we currently take cookie to Town & Country as the vet...have been for 4 years pretty happy...previously was with Parkway Animal Hospital.....on old apex/cary pkwy... hated that place.....they always try to gouge me for more money......and one time cookie stayed there for boarding when i picked up her she had sh*t on her nose and wreaked....never again "

trust me, they weren't trying to gouge you for money, we offer a lot of things that many other vets don't, and yes, it costs money, but we're merely trying to provide the best possible care available. We have a lot of clients with tons of money and a lot with no money, and they rarely complain. If you make an attempt to work something out, it normally can be done.

As far as poop being on your dogs nose after boarding, you have to understand the dog is not on it's normal potty schedule so it's going to have accidents (at any place you go). granted, whoever brought your dog up should have cleaned it off beforehand if they noticed it, but you know your dog better than we do. (plus, if you had said anything, i'm sure it would have been cleaned up)

Quote :

"town and county was number one in cary this year, we were last year and now we are number two "

is that the poll thing from the cary paper? (where citizens vote who they see, not necessarily who is the best?)

12/4/2006 11:42:30 PM

Tyson Animal Clinic Hwy 55 544.8297

12/5/2006 7:08:25 AM

Quote :

"no, he only humps the cat, and there is no doggie contact at mayfair. when we visit my sister her dog humps him."

I was thinking of Ruca or whatever her name was.

12/5/2006 7:45:48 AM

Quote :

"granted, whoever brought your dog up should have cleaned it off beforehand if they noticed it, but you know your dog better than we do"

not to harp on parkway, but i was consistently dissappointed with them, not just this time but the sh*t on her face was the last straw........the next time we took her to town and country, she smelled like cinammon when we picked her up...apparently they gave her a bath and tied some cute little bows to her....all free.........so night and day..just saying

12/5/2006 12:59:09 PM

^hate to break it to ya, but they didn't give your dog a bath for free just for the heck of it, your dog took a dump all over itself and was filthy so they bathed it, i guess we just expect owners to understand that they're there for boarding, not at the spa...

so basically, you're dog is filthy while it boards...NO vet will bathe a dog for free just "because"

12/5/2006 7:19:17 PM

my dog isn't dumb enough to take a dump on herself...if they let her out she would have done her deed...regardless, the question is not how she got dump on herself.....the point is they bathed her for free because of that.....so that she would be presentable when picked up....at the very least, wiping it off would be nice....

but you're basically saying, expect to pick your dog up filthy after a boarding .....it sounds like you work at parkway and your attitude above just justified my reason for not going there

[Edited on December 5, 2006 at 8:03 PM. Reason : k]

12/5/2006 8:01:49 PM

at carrboro plaza veterinary clinic we have a list of about 20 local (to the chapel hill, carrboro, durham area) boarding places. call your vet and ask maybe.

12/5/2006 8:17:31 PM

no, i'm saying that someone didn't see the poop on your dog when you picked up from parkway. it would have been cleaned up if it was noticed. If a dog makes itself filthy, then yes, we will bathe it, your dog just evidently wasn't THAT dirty. Sounds like to me that your dog peed and pooped on itself because it's not in it's normal schedule and small dogs don't adjust well to that. I'm sure they took your dog out, but not as many times as you take it out.


i didn't mean to say expect your dog to be filthy, but you SHOULD understand that being boarded is stressful to the pet and accidents happen because they are out of their normal environment. NOBODY is trying to screw you over or steal your money, because a small business would never survive if it did that. You just don't understand the business, that's all.

btw, yes i work at parkway and i may or may not have been there when you went there, so I don't know what any particular situations were that made you upset. I do know, however, that we try very hard to please every client even when they are being complete assholes and start making blind accusations. If your needs were not met, I will assume though that you did not express properly what your needs were, because if you had, we would have tried our best to meet them.

12/5/2006 8:21:11 PM

i would have expected them to inspect or smell her after taking her out of the crate and handing her to me....i didn't react to it initially b/c i thought it was normal and didn't want to create a fuss.....but this was 4 years ago and things may have changed dramatically since.

12/5/2006 9:32:24 PM

At CPVC we had a dog go through 3 of our runs & 2 bathes when it was just staying for one day b/c of its diarrhea issues no matter how many times we took it out. We usually do free bathes when a dog makes itself messy.

^^I have heard of vet clinics that are in populated enough area's that they can keep clients coming despite bad service. I don't want to throw any names around. But when I first moved over to the carrboro area, the one vet clinic that was closest that I was going to take my cats to, apparently has had news agencies show up to their boarding facilities to show pets in bad conditions without food or water or supervision on the local evening news.

But as a general rule of thumb, probably most small businesses aren't out to get you.

12/9/2006 3:21:06 PM

12/9/2006 6:33:02 PM

I think the ratings from Cary Magazine. It's not just write in's or anything. They make a poll I believe. I don't know. I was going to look at the sign we had at work, but I haven't been and won't be in a while, I had my appendix out.

12/9/2006 6:41:17 PM

There's no excuse for an animal being dirty or going home with anything on it's body. I work at a boarding facility with 130 kennels and I am constantly checking every dog to make sure their area is super clean and they look healthy/clean. It's not good for anything to be playing around in it's filth and it's pitiful to see people at a vet/boarding facility using the dog as an excuse for why it's acceptable to send a dirty dog home. I'm wondering how big your kennels are if they get dirty so easily, a small dog should have plenty of room to avoid any mess up they happened to make. You are getting paid to keep someone's animal whom they love very much in a sanitary place away from their own wastes. Your statements alone have convinced me enough to never use Town and Country or recommend that vet to anyone for boarding purposes. Thanks!

12/9/2006 10:08:24 PM

^psst!


(it wasn't town and country)

12/9/2006 11:22:41 PM

awwwww krazedgirl's baby looks like my doggy

[Edited on December 10, 2006 at 10:05 AM. Reason : oh and i agree with kiwi here, but i pretty much always do ]

12/10/2006 10:04:47 AM

We always use pupsi for both of our dogs. Unlike most vets, your dog won't be in a crate for 23 hours a day. The dogs are all out playing all day, and only caged at night.

Our dogs actually get visibly excited when we pull in to the parking lot. Previously, they'd start cowering when we pulled up at the vet...

12/10/2006 10:39:37 AM

Elise -my bad. My point was this poster wasn't making a very good case for himself. Some things are inexcusable and to lay off responsibility and blame innocent animals who are jsut being animals is pathetic and maybe they should consider a different career move before they ruin their place of business by opening their mouths.

crate is usually different from kennel. Crate is like 2x2x2...or whatever. The kennels we have anyway are 4x8, 4x14, or 8x14, that's enough room for most sized dogs. It's like calling a room a crate! Crazy!

Dogs being den-like love the security of four walls close together. Also at your place I hope you have strict evualation standards that run a long time to see what the dog is really like before utting them in a huge pack situation. I've seen lots of sweet dogs turn into monsters and become nippy during doggie daycamp.

One day I wanna open up my own daycamp facility!

[Edited on December 10, 2006 at 10:53 PM. Reason : ftjtritf]

12/10/2006 10:52:26 PM

you're daycamp can be run out of my boarding kennel.

ELISE'S SUPER-AWESOME BOARDING KENNEL
featuring
KAREN'S KICK-ASS DAY CAMP

ps it's gonna be close to a highly populated beach

[Edited on December 11, 2006 at 1:39 PM. Reason : i have no interest in the day camp thing, so it'd be great for you!]

12/11/2006 1:39:13 PM

There's a place in Wake Forest called Bed & Biscuit...

12/11/2006 1:42:04 PM

cute

12/11/2006 1:52:43 PM

Daycamp makes a lot of profit. Plus it's fun to watch 40-60 dogs play with eachother all day! Yay friends!

12/11/2006 1:58:37 PM

i know it makes profit, and i'll need it when i open my kennel...but i would definitely try to find someone else to manage that part. so they can deal with the socialization and stuff like that

12/11/2006 2:01:37 PM

I'd be game. I might even have work experience to go with it! Right now all I have is observation experience.

12/11/2006 4:24:04 PM