Request for Puppy Daycare?
This poor person who messaged me two months ago about future daycare for her puppy still hasn't been able to find anyone and needs last minute care. I don't have any experience with super young puppies and this is a two month old goldendoodle, I believe. She would need daycare for the next six weeks, three days a week when she works---then a daycare would take the puppy. In the past I recommended a traveling sitter but she hasn't been able to find one.
I have an 8-year-old lowkey mini schnauzer (obviously up to date on all shots and whatnot) and three indoor-outdoor cats who are mainly out of sight. None of them would bother her but is this an inherently unsafe environment for such a young puppy? I've heard that since young puppies can't be vaccinated they're at high risk for contracting stuff from other dogs and possibly cats. Can anyone give me concrete recommendations for this pet parent? I'd like to at least give her some ideas; this is a very last minute request and she is desperate.
Also, how much would you all charge for a puppy so young--8 weeks? I charge $34 for daycare for regular non-puppy dogs. Does anyone with this kind of specific baby dog experience have any advice or anything at all to share? It's also worth noting that this dog's pet parent would be dropping her off at 7:30 in the morning... so pretty early for me and picking her up at 4PM. She also has made it clear that she has a specific training method she wants me to follow and is very concerned that her dog ends up properly socialized and well trained.
This pet parent says she has contacted pretty much every Rover sitter within a reasonable distance and no one has been willing to take a puppy this young.
I have been in the same house for 20 years and we've never had a parvo incident as far as I know... is that what you're talking about? And given that I charge $34 for daycare for a regular non-puppy dog, what do you think would be a reasonable increase in price?
Yes, that's what I meant. Parvo can live in your yard up to 8 years (Yikes!). Puppies require more often outside trips, more on-top-of-them supervision, reinforcement of commands, etc. That said, I think you can reasonable charge $10-15 (or more, if your market supports it), especially if the owne
owner knows that you typically take several pups in at once, and won't be doing that so as to not subject the pup to disease.