I feel your pain Eve, not far from my house is…
Moocha Poocha Doggy Day Care.
I shudder everytime we drive past it.
The paper around here a couple of months listed names of dog grooming services. Most of them had some kind of dog related play on words in the title. One of the few that seemed to the reporter to be professional and not “clever” was Dogstyle. However, the owner of Dogstyle says many people do read it as a type of double entendre, given that it is located on a certain street–the street where all the people with “alternative lifestyles” hang out. Those people see it as a clever name.
I don’t know why, but this made me giggle. And now I’m having visions of Krusty®-brand Kat Kare.
Psst–here is a secret. You don’t have to hire a professional petsitter. I don’t know if you have any trustworthy neighbors, but I take care of all the pets in my neighborhood, and have been since I was 12 or so. This includes giving the diabetic cat his shot twice a day. I’ve never had an animal die (except a fish or two) and I am cheaper than any petsitting business. Also, having a big van that says “Petsitter” in your driveway is like putting up a big sign that says “I’m on vacation, please rob my house.”
A quick search in my area reveals “From Wags to Whiskers”. Urgh.
We also have “Furry Babies Petsitting” (hey, I wouldn’t say that about your kid, but I sure would think it), “Paw Metto Petsitters” (This is the Palmetto State, FYI), and my personal non-favorite, “Reigning Catz and Dawgz [sic]”. Beat that bad boy if you can.
When I first moved to the area and was looking for a Petsitter, one of the ones I turned up in my search was…
Puddles Pet Care.
:eek:
I thought the point was to avoid puddles. Nice folks, though.
In the Twin City area we have:
Felines & Ferns Catsitting and Plant Care
Cozy Canines
Fairy Dogparents
For Paws and Claws
that’s it for cutesy names.
(When my cat was younger, we often put LilMiss’s baby booties on her. Or baby doll clothes. And yet she still tolerates me. Kinda.)
Are you in Calgary by any chance? I’m too afraid to google it, but my dad has mentioned the Doggy Style pet groomers right next door to an adult video store. Apparently people are constantly stopping to take photos of that.
That is far worse than I ever imagined. I would be extremely insulted. “Get your priorities straight!”
Hey, I’m sort of offended…one of my friend’s is gonna start a pet sitting business…and she’s chosen one of these names!!! I’m not offended by her, I’m offended cause I like the name. So 
(No, i’m not gonna tell you what it is 
)
Nope. I guess it’s not surprising that more than one pet groomer might have a name like that (in an area like that).
I went into an upscale dog boutique in Sagatuck, MI (gay colony, FYI) which its name escapes me. I told the owner that he should have named it, " Doggie Style"
The gay guys in the place loved it.
If I ever opened one of those traveling pet groomer vans, I would name it Doggie Style. Yeah, baby!
There is a pet day care business around these parts whose name always cracked me up. All under one woof.
Another pet sitter, well, the only one in our area, is Burney’s Ark . Cracks me up. Like it’s Noah’s geeky brother got the short ark.
Okay, maybe it’s because I haven’t had my morining coffee yet, but Fairy Dogparents made me laugh. I keep picturing the Fairy Dogmother flitting aorund with her magic wand to help Cinderallagoe to the ball… and it’s a pug dressed like Tinkerbell.
I say furbuddies. And I ask my brother how my nephew is doing.
Please stay away from me and my dog in the winter, then, if you don’t have a bucket on hand. We both wear red fleece coats. Not intentionally, they were purchased at separate times by separate people, but I’m not going to wear my coat because it matches the dog’s and vice-versa. And when the snow is taller than he is, which it often is (since he’s only about 8" tall) he needs his coat. He doesn’t have the cold-endurance of big animal, he was bred to be a pampered little ball of fluff.
Mind you, I sincerely boycott all cutesy dog outfits (he has one coat, that’s all) and my pet-care services are provided by the very plainly named “Village Pet Services” which is a vet’s office that also has boarding and grooming. (Multitaskers they are, in our little village.) I don’t think I could trust a place that’s all frothy and cutesy and dumbly named. People who think that way always seem to have an air of preoccupation about them which doesn’t engender a whole lot of trust.
No, I do not. Plus, I want someone bonded and lisenced whom I can get references on, and who has back-up staff if she’s sick.
I am actually interviewing someone this weekend who uses the word “Cuddles” in her business name . . . shudder . . .
Eve, I know the names are gag-worthy, but this may be the only part of your life where taste shouldn’t be the highest goal. It isn’t like you have to spend much time with this person–you want someone who will take the time to be with your cats, as well as feed and scoop. You want someone who is aware enough to find them, and to notice if something is a little off. A cutesy animal-centered person may actually be your most prudent choice.
That being said, a cute name does not prove a person is truly animal centered. You will need to meet them first.
I am lucky enough to have a great petsitter. In fact, she noticed before I did that one of my ferrets was not up to her usual energy level, which resulted in an operation that has greatly enhanced the ferret’s life
We found our sitter by enquiring at our vet’s. She is a technician there. If you haven’t tried asking at the vet’s, it is a good place to start.
You forgot to use the word probably.
With a sig like that you’re complaining about puns? 
No, that’s a different situation entirely.
Sure it happens a lot that someone gets a nice doggy coat for the winter (and those little booties to keep salt from hurting their feet), if the doggy coat is a neutral colour their quite the chance the human will have a similar, neutral colour coat too. That’s coincidence and not usual.
No, this was summertime. The woman was wearing an orange vest (kinda like the one Michael J. Fox had in Back to the Future) and an entire ensemble from the GAP. Straight out of a catalog picture. The dog was wearing the exact same ensemble from GAP Kids. Straight out of a catalog picture. Including the vest and the hat – the whole shebang! (Well, except without pants.)
It was weird.