For 20 years the West Hartford-based firm has catered to pet house owners who need trusted care and a spotlight for his or her canine and cats.
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Canine Days of West Hartford, a frontrunner in central Connecticut pet care and originator of cell pet playgroups, is delighted to announce its twentieth anniversary.
What started as a distinct segment service providing of cell train for canine has grown to incorporate noon canine strolling, anytime pet visits, and pet sitting that’s served over 1,000 pet house owners and pets within the higher Harford space. The milestone anniversary marks the excessive stage of dedication to pets and pet house owners of West Hartford from Canine Days’ a number of long-standing and devoted workers.
“After rescuing a dachshund in 2000 I signed him up for a playgroup with a brand new firm referred to as Canine Days of West Hartford, not realizing on the time that the proprietor was searching for to promote and that someday I’d turn out to be proprietor,” stated Bob Duncan, proprietor of Canine Days of West Hartford. “Since then, I’ve been really honored to serve the pet house owners of West Hartford and neighboring cities for all these years, and as I former buyer of the enterprise myself, I do know the extent of care they’re searching for.”
Now led by Duncan, an skilled pet proprietor and advertising and marketing skilled, Canine Days has labored with a whole lot of canine through the years and is proud to have acquired many letters of thanks from completely happy prospects. Canine Days’ launched train teams offering shoppers with a handy method to supply their pet a one-hour play session with the identical set of canine every day, all whereas they have been away at work, with Canine Days’ dealing with pickups and drop-offs. Canine Days later constructed out a full grooming studio as an add-on service previous to promoting each companies to a different firm in 2017 that sought to enter the pet care trade. This transfer allowed Canine Days to deal with its core canine strolling and pet-sitting companies.
In a world the place each day companies are sometimes dominated by faceless strangers on smartphone apps, Canine Days has been capable of present top-tier service due to its unbelievable workers. Canine walker, Deb Jones, has been with the corporate for 18 of the 20 years it’s been in enterprise and steps right into a management function when Duncan just isn’t accessible to handle the day-to-day operation.
Canine Days’ most requested service is the weekly canine strolling service. Because the COVID-19 pandemic, schedules have been drastically altered, with folks working from dwelling and unpredictable diversified schedules.
“I’ve identified Bob because the starting after we received our first Papillion, Tootsie. Regardless of her being a bit uneasy round different canine, Bob was so nice along with her and helped to socialize her,” stated Sandra Welch, buyer, Canine Days of West Hartford. “Having the ability to schedule walks that labored for our schedule allowed us the liberty to deal with our work and different obligations figuring out that she was nicely cared for. Sadly, Tootsie handed six years in the past however we’ve welcomed a brand new canine named Mickey not too long ago, and he’s getting the identical nice remedy Tootsie did, from Bob and the staff at Canine Days.”
Robert Duncan. Courtesy photograph
Canine Days of West Hartford was initially began in 2002 by Chris Hodgins and bought by Bob Duncan in 2004. It’s a division of Canine Crossing, LLC. For extra data, go to www.dogdaysct.com.
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