Project Updates

The new webcam is up and running now. By request, we extended the hours of the webcam (including Sats), it is MAC assessable, and it's super easy to setup. Took me less than a minute to download the active x component to see the cameras and I am computer challenged. However if you have any problems, you can contact onlinedoggy.com and they will walk you through the process. They have great customer service. The small dog room is not quite going as scheduled. We are upgrading the flooring. We are still trying to decide on flooring for the new facility and we came across the newest state of the art flooring for daycares. It still a cushioned matting but then a rubber product is poured on top to give it a seamless finish. It's a common product used in high end humane societies and sports clubs. We decided to try in the small dog room first to see if it was all it is supposed to be. It's very very expensive. The install process got delayed and unfortunately we had already pulled up the old flooring. So the little kids are hanging out in another part of the facility.... a change of scenery for them that they seem to be enjoying. They got brand new toys too! You can still see the little kids on the dogcam. The area they are in is actually larger so they are just going crazy with fun. We hope to have this completed by the weekend and get the kids back to their sun room. I am also working this week on getting the website updated. We have lots of fun things coming up, tons of pics to post, and the August email newsletter will be coming out.

Bark, Wrestle, & Roll

I arrived at Wags this morning early in the am to get started on several projects. We have had a string of bad luck with technical devices. First our color printer died so we purchased another which ended up having a defect and we had to return it. This meant that birthday bags and first day report cards were put on hold which was really a bummer. Then our main server blew up. We were without our kennel program and accounting program for 3 days. Wow...what a nightmare that was. The staff were incredible about picking up the slack though. We couldn't make any boarding reservations so we kept a huge list that we finally caught up on. Then we lost several days of inputing invoices and we appreciate all your patience while we sorted it all out. Finally today our server is back up and running. We also had no email access this whole time so we will busy returning all the emails tomorrow. The final straw was the webcam going down and dealing with a really bad contractor. Luckily online doggy.com will be coming to our rescue and it looks like it might be up by Monday. We are so excited.

So I head out to the play yard to get my fix of playing with the dogs. That always makes the day to day business problems fade away. As I look across the play yard, it looks like a whole mass of whirling tornadoes skimming across the yard. No, not wind driven tornadoes, but dog driven tornadoes. Dogs matched up into teams of two and became wrestling tornadoes. Millie the golden vs Brennan the flatcoat. Kirby the doodle vs Cally the golden. Range the golden vs Sophie the weimie. Jave the c. lab vs Bisky the corgi. Abby the Golden vs Abby the y lab. Cooper the rhodesian and Frankie the gr dane were the biggest wrestling match. Courderoy the boston was all over the place and was her own tornado. Joey the y lab vs Molson the golden. Jackie O & Gracie played tag team tornado with siblings Abby & Murphy the aussies. Ben the golden vs Callie the aussie. The mos interesting match up was Padme and Pasha the doodles. Lily, Lotus, Roxy, & Jessie watched all the action with great interest and then fell asleep in a 4 way pile. Angel/Flare/Bella/Roxy/Hurly the aussies created one huge blur of fur nipping at each other's ankles taking turns being the sheep to be herded around. Sally the beagle showed her sister Lucy the ropes and helped Lucy learn to play. Liam also brought his new brother Lucas to play today. Finally, Oliver the Terrier and Sexy Socks the beagle were rockin and rolling today.

In the small dog room, Molly the Terrier and Chuck were bff. Milky & Austi the malteses really hit it off. They were up on their back legs wrestling and then chasing each other around. Jake & Gretel played with the new baby yorkie Lola. Roxy & Gizmo wrestled atop the jungle gym. Hutner the Chi Mix and Daisy the Corgi loved each other's play moves. Toby & Kona the shihtzus played kissy face. Avery, Maggie & Riley the cavaliers got preferential tummy rubs.

Lola our new aussie rescue was visited today by Spartacus's parents. She's a 4 year old blue merle aussie looking for a new home. We'll see if it's a match or not in a few days. Tank & Dash were brand new Italian Greyhounds today. Scooter showed them what daycare is all about. Bomie finally got more comfortable about playing with the dogs. Enzo was a new golden retriever that had no problems jumping into the group. Lastly, we had a film crew out here today. They are starting a new show for Animal Planet and they did screen tests for us to possibly host the show. How exciting! More updates soon! Remember you can post any comments below.

WebCam Update

We are so excited to have found a new webcam contractor and provider. Onlinedoggy.com will now be running our webcam. They are sending us the new equipment and we should receive it mid week next week (around August 8th). This new system is top of the line and the customer service is also top of the line. You will still be able to access all the cameras and the log in process will be much simpler. We will still allow for up to 100 people to log in at once so you will never get an error message. Yes, all activities will still be recorded. Once the system is up and running, we may switch out our cameras as well. We purchased them 5 years ago and the technology has improved greatly since then. The new system itself may clear up some of the quality issue so we will wait and see on that. The best part of onlinedoggy.com is that they provide all the customer service to our clients. If you encounter any problem using our webcams, you can call them direct and talk to live computer support to get it working on any computer. We will post more once the system is live....hopefully next week.