Tails of Hawaii

Woke up to Wheatie's crying at about 3:45. I was surprised that he'd be crying so early since he usually doesn't make any noise until he hears my alarm go off. He kept crying, so I decided to take him outside to use the bathroom. I noticed his paws were wet as I put on his leash. Took him down, came back upstairs to investigate his kennel, and found VOMIT there! He had vomited right near the entrance of his kennel. Of course, I got over the initial sick feeling in my stomach and put him in his pen in the living room. Took a while to clean up everything and by the time I was done, it was already 4:30. I decided to stay up since I feed him a little after 5 in the morning. We went through the normal morning routine and I even did all my laundry.

I was looking online at random stuff when I came across something about dog boarding. Tails of Hawaii, which is really close to my house, was ranked pretty high among the other dog boarding places. I found a coupon in a pet magazine I got from the Pet Expo a few weeks ago. I told BFC we should check it out so we can see if Wheatie is "fit" to board there since they actually do an evaluation of the dog before boarding it. I guess this is to weed out the really harmful dogs. Anyway, BFC and I went to Tails this morning to see if we could get Wheatie evaluated. They were able to take us right away and we were able to watch how he was in the small dog room right from the waiting room since they have cameras set up in all the rooms. It was pretty funny because as we watched him, we noticed that he quickly jumped off the worker's lap and began sniffing the other dogs. He looked very happy. We needed to leave him there for a few hours to see how he'd be with the other dogs. BFC and I went out for a few hours and returned to pick him up. The staff said that he had been a great dog, so we were really happy about that. We actually made plans to have him boarded there in the future. When we got home, Wheatie was pooped and has been great since then. I'm glad we decided to take him since it's raining down here now....don't think he'll have a walk this evening if it continues.