Earlier in the week we were contacted by KDWB asking if we wanted to help with Dave Ryan’s Christmas Wish. Our donation would help a Twin Cities family in need this holiday season and make sure their dog was taken care of! How could we say no to this! Since then, we have gotten emails from many people thanking us for our generous donation, and others asking if they could hear the whole story of where our donation went. You can Click Here to download the MP3 of the story or hit the play button below.
Have a great day!
Keith
This past Thursday we kicked off the first annual Twin Cities Dog Daycare Association’s “Great Minnesota Pet Food Drive”. I am so honored to work with such a great group of doggy daycares and raise food and money for local pet rescues. We have turned this into a friendly competition to see which dog daycare can collect the most food and money and we need your support! You can donate in our lobby or online by clicking here. We have some great incentives for anyone that donates including free doggy daycare and $5 off at Bubbly Paws.
Thanks so much for helping us help pets in need this holiday season!
Keith
Sarah one of the PPP staffers had fun in the Modern Life Photo – Photo Frame!
This was the 4th year that Pampered Pooch Playground was at the Twin Cities Pride Festival and I personally think it was our most fun year! We had our doggy lounge which was complete with our doggy bar, our cool new Minnepawpolis shirts, and a fun staff that really wanted to be there! Seriously, it was such a grew time and loved seeing all of our customers stopping over. We had our good friend Amber from Modern Life Photo at our booth taking pictures of people and their dogs. You can see and download the pictures she took on her website. Thanks again for making it such a fun and successful event!
Because I worked in the media for 11 years before opening Pampered Pooch Playground, I know how much celebrities value their privacy. We often get asked in the lobby if any famous people bring their dogs to us, and they do… But because we value their privacy we will never mention who they are on the website, Facebook or Twitter. I know you really want to know who they are, so lets just say we have had at least one of the following in the past 2 years:
- Minnesota Twins Player
- Minnesota Wild Player
- Minnesota Vikings player
- Musician (no it was not Prince)
- Radio Personality
- TV Personality
- DJ
- Artist
So there you go.. You can guess and guess, but we will never tell you who they are, heck, you might even run into them in the lobby sometime.
Have a good night.
Keith
Pampered Pooch Playground and Bubbly Paws Dog Wash are excited to be part of this years Twin Cities Pride Festival. Make sure to stop at our booth to see what fun events we have going on (we are just finishing the details). Pampered Pooch Playground is one of the founding members of the Twin Cities Dog Daycare Association, which is sponsoring the Doggie Drag Show and the Dog Play Area. Click here for a handy dandy map of the festival. Last year, KSTP talked to Keith and Trycia about why they support the Twin Cities Pride Festival, click here to watch it.
Pampered Pooch Playground / Bubbly Paws Booth Information
Stop out at our booth for lots of fun including our Pooch Lounge with free samples of doggy beer, Beds to relax on, Doggy Ice Cream and photo sessions from Modern Life Photo.
Doggy Drag Show Information
Come join the fun at 3:00 PM on Saturday, June 23rd. Registration is day of and will open at 2:00 PM. Sign up at the Twin Cities Dog Daycare Association Booth (it will be very close to the Pampered Pooch Playground booth). There will be a few props available to use, but we strongly suggest bringing your own Doggy Gaga or Elton Dog costume. The Grand Prize winner gets to be in the Pride Parade Sunday, June 24 and they receive a pretty sweet prize package. On a side note, Keith will be one of the judges!
Doggy Play Area Information
The Twin Cities Dog Daycare Association is proud to sponsor the Doggy Play Area. There will be some games and activities for you and your pooch.
Twin Cities Dog Daycare Association Information
Pampered Pooch Playground is one of the founding members of the Twin Cities Dog Daycare Association. The The Twin Cities Dog Daycare Association encourages the pursuit of excellence by our member daycares through honest effort, fair play and personal integrity, we will provide appropriate information and resources necessary to promote dog daycares as a viable and safe industry in the Twin Cities and creates a set of standards that each of the members must abide by. Other members of the group are Downtown Dogs, Dog Day Getaway and Dog Days.
Shayne Wells from KARE 11 and Metromix stopped out to one of the Doga (dog yoga) classes that takes place at Pampered Pooch Playground. The classes are run by our good friends at the K9-Connection.
I want to send a big thank you to all of our employees who worked extra hard the past few days (and today) at doggy daycare as the floor guys installed our state of the art floor in the Ruff House. Doing construction with dogs is never easy, and it is even harder when you can’t use a 3000 sqft play area and the temperature is 112 with the heat index outside. We made use of our training room and the Canine Cove. To keep the dogs cool, our AC was blasting. Late last week I called the guy that invented the flooring, and asked if the weather would be too hot or humid. He said no, the humidity actually helps to keep the smell down and help it dry faster (who would have thought). So full speed it was. So thanks again to our wonderful staff who helped to keep things running smooth on one of the hottest days OUTSIDE in the states history!
Now.. About the floor…. This is a new concept in flooring and we are the first in the Twin Cities to use it! It is not epoxy, it is not rubber, but a mix of the 2. Rolled rubber flooring (even when properly installed) can hold smells, and epoxy floors are hard on dog’s feet and create injuries.. But when you mix the 2.. You get doggy daycare gold! The next room on the list to get a makeover is Waggers Way.
Just wait until tomorrow, we know the dogs will love it! The big question.. Who will be the first to break it in???
Have a good night!
Keith
Check out the quick clip of Pampered Pooch Playground setting up for the Twin Cities Pride Festival on KSTP, Channel 5.
Today I was able to sneak out of the doggy daycare for about an hour for a very important meeting. For the past 4 months, we have been working hard with a few of the other premier doggy daycares in the area to form a group to help set standards of care and service for daycares in the Twin Cities. We believe that working together we can help educate people on what makes a quality doggy daycare, and what you should ask and look for when you select one. In the next week, we will be launching the website that will be filled with lots of information for dog parents. We will talk more about this soon, but I left the meeting very excited about the future and what we have planned.
While I was out at the meeting, Gracie was getting groomed by Tami! Gracie belongs to Sarah from Sarah Beth Photography! I brought Gracie home with me tonight because Trycia and Sarah were doing a boutique crawl with friends in Uptown. Gracie and Roxy spent the night fighting for my attention. It was cute!
Have a good day!
Keith
Check out our other locally owned business, Bubbly Paws Dog Wash and Spa with locations in St Louis Park and St Paul.