Doggy Daycamp/Play and Stay are Here!

Best Friends Pet Care has been successfully offering Doggy Daycamp for the past year! Drop your pooch off in the morning and they will enjoy playing all day long with other dogs in our spacious camp room! Dogs must be at least 5 months of age, current on all required vaccinations with a clear fecal exam, well-socialized and not food/toy aggressive to qualify. All dogs are supervised by certified Doggy Daycamp counselors, and they are sure to be tuckered out at the end of a busy day at camp! Choose from a 1/2 day for $13 or a full day for $23.

For those doggies boarding with us overnight, we now offer a Play and Stay option, which guarantees your best friend a minimum of 4 hours of playtime in camp per day, while resting in one of our spacious, climate-controlled suites at night. For one, all-inclusive price of just $37 per day, Play and Stay is the best option for your pooch to socialize with other dogs; dogs that are busy and active eat and sleep better, and have reduced anxiety.

For more information, visit http://www.bestfriendspetcare.com/ or call us at (586) 792-3000. And don't forget, all new pets that board with us automatically get their first night free!

Dogs and Cocoa Mulch...be careful!

It's that time of year, Spring has sprung and we are out in our gardens doing our best to make them look lovely and inviting. We use different plants, shrubs, containers and mulch to make all our hard work a success. However the type of mulch you use in your garden very well may look great but without knowing it, you could be putting your pets' health at risk.

Cocoa mulch is a wonderful looking and smelling mulch BUT it contains an ingredient called "theobromine" which is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate. It really attracts dogs, and they can ingest this mulch and die.


Theobromine is in all chocolate, especially dark or baker's chocolate which is toxic to dogs. Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities of theobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and theophylline. A dog that ingests a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from cacao bean shells can develop severe convulsions and died later.

Cocoa mulch is sold in most garden supply stores such as Home Depot therefore you are not limited to this type of mulch. Home Depot and other garden supply stores have so many choices of mulch that finding a pet friendly one should be very easy...and just as simple to make your garden beautiful!