Lauren & Wynn H.
Lauren & Wynn H.
Contact for Boarding
from $38 per night
Highlights
Pet care experience
Working from home! 🐕🦺
We’ve both taken care of dogs and cats a-plenty since we were kids. As adults, we’ve helped friends and family with pet needs on many occasions. However, taking care of our five-year-old Aussie Doodle Rocky, who we adopted in 2021, has helped us grow from pet fans to full-time pet parents. Rocky’s journey from an anxious mess of a puppy to a well-trained, effusively loving dog has been enormously rewarding for both of us. It took a ton of work to make him fully trust us and be comfortable in different environments. In the process we learned just how important it is to do the little things to earn that trust, as well as the importance of balancing positive reinforcement with consistency in pet care.
Cat care experience
Lauren & Wynn also care for cats. Learn about their cat-specific care experience.
Qualifications
Ratings and reviews
Lauren and Wyn were great with our dog Hoagie! Great communication and we could tell Hoagie was in good hands the week we were gone.
A+++ My puppy had so much fun at Lauren and Wynn’s home while I was away for a few days. They took such good care of him and sent regular updates and pictures. I will definitely be using them again!
Blake had a great time!! He came home exhausted! Lauren and Wynn were so flexible and even brought him home. We’re so thankful they took great care of our guy. They gave such good updates too! Not even an hour after we dropped him off they let us know that Blake had already settled in and made a friend! We will definitely us Lauren and Wynn again!
Lauren & Wynn were so wonderful with our dog. They were very easy to communicate with and provided regular updates/photos. We highly recommend them.
Did a great job checking on my cat
Lauren and Wynn always take such great care of our home and our senior cats.
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Schedule
I work from home every day, and have the flexibility to step away to handle any situation that may come up during that time. I have free time in the mornings, so I usually handle drop-in visits as well, if it’s within 20 minutes of our home. My partner Lauren works earlier in the mornings but is usually home by late afternoon or evening on weekdays, giving her the flexibility to make some house calls or other appointments most days after she gets off work, and help care for any dogs we’re boarding in the evenings. Between us, we can cover pet duties pretty much seven days a week (excluding outside plans). We do charge an extra fee ($19, or 50% of one night) for short notice boarding requests within 48 hours of drop-off, since it doesn’t leave time for a meet and greet. But as long as we are available, we are flexible with short-notice!
Where your pet will stay
Home characteristics
Safety, trust & environment
We don’t have a fence, but we live in a low-traffic area with a big front yard and a bigger back yard that extends down our driveway to another house where Lauren’s parents live. There are also plenty of nearby trails and sidewalks to go dog-walking on-leash, and we live near an expansive dog park (Otto Armleder Park) where we can take your dog to get a little social interaction or energy out, if they need it. We take Rocky there all the time and he loves it! He can also attest to the many, many interesting smells in our back yard (including but not limited to: grass, pine needles, and the occasional deer droppings). As for Rocky himself, he loves pups big and small; he rarely has any qualms sharing space with other dogs (or cats), and if for any reason they don’t get along, we have the space in our home to separate them comfortably. We’ll keep your pet warm, safe, and pampered!
Pets
A typical day
When we’re both working, I’ll keep an eye on the pups in our house throughout the day and take them on potty breaks every 3-4 hours (or more frequently, if needed). We may go on a short walks during my breaks, if time allows. When one or both of us is off work (or on weekends), we love to walk dogs around the block in our tree-lined suburban neighborhood, or go for a longer walk on one of several wooded walking trails near our house. We also live near a 10-acre dog park with three expansive fenced areas for them to run around in. And if they don’t mind a short drive, there is another park with hiking trails that we visit often.