Just like with new human parents, new pet parents have a lot to learn about their new young one. As both a human dad and a pet parent, there were, and I guess still are, times when I felt that …
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Talking to New Pet Parents
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Regulating Commercial Dog Walkers in San Francisco
For at least the past 10 years San Francisco has been discussing ways to regulate commercial dog walkers who use the City’s parks. In early 2012 San Francisco added Article 39, Commercial Dog Walkers, to its Health Code with the …
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How Many Calories in a Bull’s Penis?
Yup, that’s sure an attention getter for a blog post! Pet Camp is not a retail store, we’re a doggie day care and dog and cat overnight care facility – but we do have a small retail area. We stock mostly inexpensive …
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Mobile Food Trucks go to the Dogs
Here in San Francisco mobile food trucks are a controversial issue. San Francisco is a City full of “foodies,” but the every increasing number of food trucks has resulted in a food fight the scope of which hasn’t been seen since Animal …
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What is a Puppy Mill?
“Puppy Mill” – few terms bring about such a visceral reaction in the dog world. But what exactly is a puppy mill? Well in addition to there being no legal definition of a puppy mill, until recently there was no …
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Is declining treatment for your pet animal abuse?
I got a call from a reporter the other day with an unusual question. She said that someone had called her and told her that they had taken their dog to a local veterinarian because the dog had a swollen …
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Tech and the Small Business
We opened Pet Camp 17 years ago at the start of what became known as the “Dot-Com Boom.” While everyone else who was starting a business was going high tech, we went low-low tech. The “Dot-Com Boom” went onto become …
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Cost and End of Life Decisions
Sadly, there is a time in every pet parent’s life when that most dreaded decision has to be made. While deciding to put a pet to sleep is never easy, there are times when the decision point is “clearer.” Yet …
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Where Does Your Charitable Donation Go?
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) recently agreed to pay (that’s right PAY) $9.3 million to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus over unproven claims brought by the ASPCA that the Circus abused elephants. …
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Dog Training Saves Lives
Recently we hosted two 10-month old Rottweiler puppies, Carmine and Vincent, from San Francisco Animal Care and Control for a week of lodging and training. These two very cute (but rambunctious) puppies had not passed the adoption test because they were …
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