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Aaron Hirschhorn, Dog Vacay: Because Dogs Need Vacations, Too
“A dog’s life is looking pretty good these days, with pet spending in the United States hitting an all-time high of almost $51 billion in 2011. Dogs have their own clothes, gourmet foods and bionic toys — and now they even have their very own vacations, thanks to Dog Vacay, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Vacay is a Home Away From Home for Fido
“The next time you’re out of town, you don’t have to leave Fido with a pricey professional pet-sitter, your slacker brother or at a kennel where he’ll be cooped up in a cage all day. With start-up Dog Vacay – think Airbnb for dogs — you can drop off your pooch at the home of a fellow dog lover. Hosts watch your pet while you’re away and set their own rates (usually $15 to $80 a day).” [Click to read original article]
Capital Buzz: A New source of Protein for Washington
“Web-based dogsitting services DogVacay, headquartered in Los Angeles, has invaded Washington. Dog lovers and first-time entrepreneurs Aaron and Karine Hirschhorn are in Washington May 22 to make the rounds and get some publcity around the site. The service, which helps dog owners find local residents to dogsit, will be in nine cities by the end of the month. DogVacay is backed by former MySpace Chief Executive Mike Jones.” [Click to read original article]
A New Website Called Dogvacay.com Allows for Easier Dogsitting
“BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) – Danielle Rapin doesn’t just love her dog Baci, she loves pretty much all dogs. So much so, that she hosts other dogs in her Brooklyn apartment. She provides those services through dogvacay.com, a website that gives dog owners an alternative to boarding or relying on family and friends. Karine Nissim-Hirschhorn started the company with her husband Aaron. First in Los Angeles, and now it’s nationwide, with hundreds of dog lovers signing up to host.” [Click to read original article]
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DogVacay Connects New York City Dog Owners With People to Watch Their Pets While the Owner is Away
“NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - What do you do with your pet when you have to leave town? Typically, the options are board it or perhaps have a friend or neighbor take care of it. A new service hopes to expand the alternatives. DogVacay.com sets people up with someone who will watch their dog while they’re away. It was just launched in New York City and is the brainchild of Aaron Hirschhorn and his wife Karine Nissim Hirschhorn.” [Click to read original article]
Doggie Vacation: Pairing Pooches with Homestays
“Valerie Steiger, a life coach in Canyon Country, Calif., had a 4-month-old puppy and tickets for a 10-day trip to Thailand. Steiger knew that Joey, a cavalier King Charles spaniel-shih tzu mix, would need more attention than what a traditional stop-by-the-house pet sitter could provide, so she went online in search of a good boarding kennel.” [Click to read original article]
Affordable Canine Care and Fix Your Own iPhone
“A new site wants to help dog owners in San Francisco and Los Angeles find good help for Fido when they are away, and a popular car-sharing service just went nationwide. Get the gear to fix your own iPhone– for as low as $10 per toolkit. And this app makes it easier to sort through daily deal clutter.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Vacay, Dog Sitting Service, opens in NYC
“New Yorkers scrambling to find a place to put their dogs before jet-setting now have the option to set their loved ones up with a local, pet-friendly paradise all their own. California-based startup Dog Vacay,created by husband and wife team Aaron Hirschhorn and Karine Nissim Hirschhorn, opened shop in the city on Monday and are hoping to pair New York canines with “dog lovers, dog owners and pet-care providers” from a vetted marketplace for owners to choose from when traveling.” [Click to read original article]
Valley Talk: Yelp IPO Edtion
“This is something new that I’m trying out. The idea is “Valley Talk,” a chronicle of highlights and lowlights of the week that was in the startup and venture world. I’m also emptying my notebook and thinking about next week. I hope to include a roundup of startups, entrepreneurs, and investors making moves or putting out big ideas in Silicon Valley (and beyond). Also included are other random thoughts floating around in my head. Feedback and ideas for future posts appreciated.” [Click to read original article]
Shock and Paw: Adopting a Dog. For the Weekend.
““Sit.” “Roll over.” “Go by that jogger and do something adorable.” Congratulations, you’re now ready to own a puppy. Well, short-term-lease a puppy. Presenting Dog Vacay, an online service that connects traveling pooch owners with responsible (notice we didn’t say opportunistic, but, you know…) pooch sitters, available now. You know how life sometimes hands you lemons, but you make lemonade… well, this is that rare occasion when life instead hands you a baby golden retriever.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Vacay Boarding Service
“Ever since we learned how to massage a puppy, dog walkers in Washington Square Park have learned how to avoid us. A less creepy way to make friends with animals: Dog Vacay, now live in New York. Essentially the humane version of Rent-a-Pup, the site hooks owners up with willing sitters to avoid the stress and cost of kennels. To participate, create a profile with info about yourself, pets, and apartment; upload photos of all; provide references and qualifications; and wait for owners heading out of town to contact you.” [Click to read original article]
DogVacay.com Sends Fido on Vacation
“DogVacay.com is a newly launched Santa Monica-based website offering the services of real people in your city as dog-sitters while you go away on vacation. With all the dog-friendly developments – clothing lines, gourmet organic treats that look like cupcakes – it should come as no surprise that dogs are getting their own vacations now, too. Founded by husband and wife team Aaron and Karine Nissim Hirschhorn, DogVacay.com is striving to redefine the experience of dog boarding for both owners and their furry friends.” [Click to read original article]
Doggie B&B Service Places Pets in Homey Spots
“If traveling with your pooch is simply out of the question, new online service will let you leave them in the creature comforts of home. At someone else’s home, that is. Dog Vacay, which is set to go live this week in the New York metro area, will help you find a home for your dog to stay in while you’re away. The service is free to join and host dog-sitters set their own rates, which range between $15 and $90 a day.” [Click to read original article]
Just in time for SXSW, Dog Vacay Will Help You Find a Home-based Dogsitter
“Love the idea of having a dog, but hate the guilt of leaving your pet behind during business trips or vacations? Dog Vacay, the latest launch from L.A. incubator Science, speaks to exactly that problem, solving it with the power of crowdsourcing and an open marketplace.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Vacay Launches a Community Marketplace for Dog-sitting
“Last Sunday morning, I was lonely, lying in bed and really wishing I owned a puppy. But considering my travel schedule, I could never own one. So I “Pathed” (shared a thought on Path): “I wish there was an Airbnb for Puppies.” Lo and behold, a few days later I was pitched “The Airbnb for Dogs”: Dog Vacay is a Los Angeles-based startup founded by husband and wife team Aaron Hirschhorn and Karine Nissim Hirschhorn that officially launches today in San Francisco and the greater Los Angeles area.”
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Daniel Vasquez: DogVacay.com Coming to South Florida
“DogVacay.com, the online doggie boarding booking service, is headed to South Florida. The company announced this week it would be expanding to Miami on May 23, following successful ventures in New York and Los Angeles. Whether you want to sign up or not as a new customer, the concept is smart. Pet owners can search DogVacay.com’s database for nearby homes (not kennels) of professional pet-sitters or plain pet owners willing to take in a pet for a temporary stay – and cash. Rates are set by the host, but appear to range from $15 to $60 a night, depending on amenities (such as big yards or nearby parks).” [Click to read original article]
Traveling Dog Owner? Meet the Airbnb for Dogs
“Leaving your dog at a kennel can be heartbreaking, and asking a friend to dog-sit can feel intrusive. So what is a traveling dog owner to do? A new site called Dog Vacay hopes you’ll instead find a local home for your dog while you’re away. On Thursday, it’s launching Airbnb-type listings for dog boarders.”
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Dogbnb: DogVacay Wants To Help You Find A Boarding Alternative For Your Four-Legged Friends
“As a former dog owner, I know how challenging it can be to find the best care for your four-legged-friend when going on vacation or taking a trip. While boarding dogs at kennels is an option, I always prefer to have a dog sitter at an actual home (or at my own home) take care of my pet to ensure one-on-one care. The difficulty is actually finding dog lovers who want to babysit for dogs in their spare time. Enter DogVacay, a new marketplace out of Los Angeles incubator Science, that matches dog owners in need of pet-care services with qualified animal caregivers. The service is launching today in Los Angeles and San Francisco.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Vacay is Airbnb for Dog Boarding
“One of the big problems with having a dog is that when you travel, you need a place to keep it that will be responsible but not too expensive. Dog Vacay is working to solve this problem, by connecting dog owners with dog watchers, and lowering the average cost of the stay. This is the same model that Airbnb uses, in that Dog Vacay utilizes overflow space that could otherwise be making people money.” [Click to read original article]
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“Dog Vacay is a community where dog lovers can connect with one another to find and provide safe, convenient and affordable ways to care for their best friend.”
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Dog Vacay, the Airbnb for Dogs, Is a Hit in New York
“A new site called Dog Vacay helps traveling dog owners find local homes for their pets while they’re away by providing Airbnb-type listings. About a month after launch, the service has been successful in enlisting hosts and dog owners — but nowhere more than in New York City. The site, which launched in San Francisco and Los Angeles March 1, began accepting listings everywhere in the country about three weeks ago. To date, the startup says it has had about 5,000 people apply to host dogs in their homes.” [Click to read original article]
Interview With Aaron Hirschhorn, DogVacay.com
“Do you have a pet dog, and do you travel a lot? If so, you’re probably familiar with the travails of having to find a kennel to place your dog into, are constantly worrying about how your dog is doing in that kennel, and probably are feeling a little guilty, too, about having them locked up all week while you are away. To address that worry, Los Angeles-based DogVacay (www.dogvacay.com) lauched last week [...]“
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DogVacay: Airbnb for Dogs
“If you plan on traveling out of town and leaving a pet behind, you may be wary about putting your pooch up in a kennel where he or she is bound to be isolated. Doggie daycare centers offer overnight visits, but it gets expensive, very quickly. Unless your wallet contains a never-ending supply of money, you are likely looking for better options for your best friend. Enter Dog Vacay – a business designed just like Airbnb, except for dogs.”
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Dog Vacay is Basically Airbnb for Dog Boarding
“For most dog owners (like me!), finding a place for your dog to stay while traveling can be a huge pain. You can put your dog in a kennel, but most of the time that means your best friend spends several days cooped up in a cage with only limited time to play. You can board your dog in a high-class puppy hotel, but that can get expensive fast. You could try to find a dog walker to board with, but unless you have your own, finding someone based on positive word-of-mouth can be difficult. Or you could find a friend to dog-sit, but let’s face it — not everyone is as responsible or as caring as you are with your dog.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Vacay.com – Dog Boarding Service
“Finding reliable people to look after your dog when you’re going away on vacation should stop being a problem now that a service like DogVacay is here. This new dog boarding service lets you find qualified people to look after your four-legged friend, for a price you’re sure to afford.”
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DogVacay: Who’s Having the Most Fun This Holiday?
“Before I came to live to Israel I had a great concern for a member of my family: my precious dog. I was going away for a long time and my mother wasn’t really excited about looking after her for six months. Suddenly, I found a solution. I bought twenty pounds of dog food and trusted that without the expenses my mom would finally agree to take care for Wendy. And so she did.”
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Start-up Spotlight: Dog Vacay, a Home for Fido When You’re Away
“The next time you’re out of town, you don’t have to leave Fido with a pricey professional pet-sitter, your slacker brother or at a kennel where he’ll be cooped up in a cage all day.” [Click to read original article]
Will You Rent Your Ride to a Stranger? Peer-to-teer ‘carsharing’ Arrives
“We’ve already told you about the ability to use the Internet to find nearby lodging (Airbnb); pet sitters (DogVacay and Rover.com) and sports tickets and other goods (Zaarly). Now, residents in Washington state — due in part tochanges in insurance laws instituted by the legislature earlier this month — will be able to easily rent their SUVs, trucks, vans, sedans and other vehicles to friends or, even, strangers.” [Click to read original article]
DogVacay.com: Rare, Mid-week, Weekly Pick by Giga
“In the select and underground world of weekly picks, a mid-week pick is as rare as a stripe-less zebra in an Australian zebra-gaming reserve. That said, please let me introduce the exciting world of DogVacay.com, a fun dog-boarding startup that aims to be an AirBNB for dogs. Going on vacation and need a loving home for spot? Look no further.”
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Dogbnb: DogVacay Wants To Help You Find A Boarding Alternative For Your Four-Legged Friends
“As a former dog owner, I know how challenging it can be to find the best care for your four-legged-friend when going on vacation or taking a trip. While boarding dogs at kennels is an option, I always prefer to have a dog sitter at an actual home (or at my own home) take care…” [Click to read original article]
Website of the Day: DogVacay.com
“As dog owners know, the hardest part of traveling is the stress of leaving a beloved pooch at a kennel filled with strange dogs and confined spaces. To save the day is Dog Vacay, an Airbnb for the four-legged set. With a design interface strikingly similar to the human vacation site, seasoned travelers will feel like they’ve used the site before.” [Click to read original article]
DogVacay Is the Air BnB for Canine Friends
“It seems like there’s no end to the things technology can do for collaborative consumption now that we are all linked together with that handy tool called the Internet. After all, our current online networking technologies is at the core of today’s Collaborative Consumption momentum. Take, for example, this bit of awesomeness: In the same way that Air BnB has made it easy to rent out our spare bedrooms to trustworthy travelers, or Relay Rides has made it easy to share our cars with other drivers, DogVacay is helping dog owners find a safe, happy home for their dogs to stay while they’re off traveling.” [Click to read original article]
Tech Life: Sending Your Pooch on a Dogvacay
“As any dog owner knows, vacations — or the complications thereof — are one of the few serious drawbacks of animal companionship. Long car trips are tough on many pets, and few owners are eager to take a dog aboard a plane or train. Then there’s the question of where your pet stays when you get there. Unless you own a vacation home, you’re likely faced with leaving your dog behind. But that prompts its own fraught questions: Kennel or pet sitter? Will she get enough exercise and attention? Can we really afford to leave him?” [Click to read original article]
Pet Owners Seek Alternatives to Traditional Boarding
“Melissa Cazorla had two problems when she and her husband moved to the Atlanta area from Virginia Beach: their Labrador-whippet mix and their Maltese-poodle mix. What were these pet parents going to do with their “children” when they went on vacation? In Virginia Beach, they had friends who would pet-sit for the two dogs, but they didn’t know many people yet in Doraville. The couple began searching for pet sitters on Craigslist.com, emailing sitters until they found someone they felt was affordable. They visited the person’s home before deciding to leave their dogs there while they went on vacation.” [Click to read original article]
Need Extra Cash? Dog Vacay Lets You Turn Your Home Into a Bed and Breakfast for Dogs
“How does a beachfront weekend in South Beach for only $50 a night sound to you? Not into surf and sand? What about a five-star hotel in Coconut Grove, surrounded by parks and lush mangroves, for $40 a night? Oh, and by the way, these vacation spots aren’t for you. They’re for your dog. Dog Vacay is a dogsitting service set to launch May 23 in Miami, providing bed and breakfast listings for the city’s canine companions. Now, instead of feeling guilty as sin going on a cruise and leaving Fido in some crate at the vet, you can sail away knowing your furry friend’s hanging out in a real home away from home.” [Click to read original article]
DogVacay Matches Dog-Sitters, Pet Owners in Orlando
“For $20 per night, Meagan Hackley will treat your dog to an Orlando vacation. She offers a home on Lake Arnold with a half-acre of plush, green lawn and her dog Gunner, a fawn-colored lab and red hound mix, as a friend. Hackley is part of a growing group of Orlando-based dog-lovers who have opened their homes tovacationing dog owners in exchange for side money through DogVacay.com. The pet-sitting website, which officially launched its Orlando service last week, aims to offer dog owners an alternative to kennels.” [Click to read original article]
In the Dog House
“Like savvy travelers who forgo pricey hotels for budget accommodations on sites like Couchsurfing.org, easy-going pups now have an inexpensive place to crash, too. Two new services allow New York dogs to stay with a local pet-lover while their owner is away: Dogvacay.com and Rover.com both allow pet owners to create a profile with info about their animal, and can browse hundreds of hosts’ profiles to see where Fido will fit in best. You can e-mail potential hosts questions and even set up a meet and greet before making an online reservation.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Vacay, the Airbnb for Dogs, Launches in New York City
“Accumulate enough animal-loving friends and you’re likely to find yourself on the receiving end of emails like: Anyone want to stay in a sunny 2-bedroom apartment next weekend FOR FREE . . . and watch Buster while we’re out of town? We promise he doesn’t bite! Or, even the occasional: Okay, so maybe he does bite, but we’ll leave a six pack in the fridge.” [Click to read original article]
New Startup Company Sets Out to Offer Dogs Dream Vacations
“As humans, we have the ability to go on vacations and take trips to different destinations around the world. But why should humans have all the fun? That’s the idea behind a new California startup called Dog Vacay, which is run by entrepreneurs Aaron Hirschhorn and Karine Nissim Hirschhorn.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Vacay
“The next time you’re out of town, you don’t have to leave Fido with a pricey professional pet-sitter, your slacker brother or at a kennel where he’ll be cooped up in a cage all day. With start-up Dog Vacay, think Airbnb for dogs, you can drop off your pooch at the home of a fellow dog lover. Hosts watch your pet while you’re away and set their own rates (usually $15-$80 a day).”
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It’s Your Money: DogVacay.com
“PIX11′s Steve Villanueva checks out a new “pet vacation” service called DogVacay.com which recently launched here in NYC. The service offers an easy way for pet lovers to earn some extra cash. Hosts earn anywher from $15 to $100 a night to pet sit. Steve talks to the Founders of DogVacay.com, a host that’s taken care of pets and a dog owner who has used the service.” [Click to read original article]
DogVacay.com Launches Superior Alternative to Kennels with a Community of Loving and Trusted Dog Boarders
“Dog Vacay, the online marketplace that matches dog owners in need of pet-care services with amazing qualified animal caregivers, launches today in Los Angeles and San Francisco. With Dog Vacay’s new service to find dogs local homes to stay when their owners are away, dog owners who travel are no longer forced to choose between a caged kennel or burdening a friend with the responsibility of pet-sitting.” [Click to read original article]
Bark, Bed: New Website Offers Couchsurfing-Like Service for Your Dog
“So you’re going out of town for a few days. Did you make all the arrangements to ensure your house doesn’t fall into disrepair while you’re gone? Enlist a friend to collect your mail? Put the newspaper on hold? That’s easy enough. But what about your dog? You could, as a certain presidential candidate once did, stick the pooch in a cage and strap it to the roof of your car. Then again, not every trip away from home is for the dogs. Unless you have that super-reliable friend who will chuck aside his or her schedule to feed…” [Click to read original article]
First Round is Going To the Dogs
“In a way, we are – with our latest investment – dogvacay.com. I’m happy to announce that @FirstRound has lead a seed round in Dogvacay.com – a community where you can have your dogs boarded in real home settings, not caged in a kennel. While I’m not a pet owner (NYC apartments are not that dog friendly), I know many of them – and they all feel guilty whenever they have to put the pet in a kennel.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Vacay: Husband and Wife Entrepreneurs Make Dog Boarding Make Awesome
“Your flight is booked, bags are packed and your private paradise, oceanfront villa bordering a remote island awaits you. In the midst of eagerness for your next vacation, your blissful thoughts are interrupted by a deep pang of guilt and anxiety. Why? Because like most pet owners, you cringe at the thought of leaving your four-legged family member at a dog kennel or pet hotel.” [Click to read original article]
Going on Vacation? What Happens to the Dog?
“If you’ve ever gone out of town and left your dog behind, you know that special form of guilt reserved for dog owners. It’s like dogs all have a degree in it. Jake, my normally cheerful, smiling yellow Labrador retriever, has a master’s in Guilt. As soon as he hears a suitcase roll out of the closet, he knows someone from his clan is going to be leaving soon. Or maybe all of his humans will be hitting the road, taking him to a friend’s, or having a relative come over and watch him and the house.”
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Dog Vacay: Connecting Hounds With Hosts
“Whether you’re looking for a homey environment in which to board your dog, or want to make some money by hosting one in your home, a new company calledDogVacay.com is offering to help hook you up. The site launched March 1 in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and will soon be adding other cities to its listings, through which dog owners and dog sitters can connect.” [Click to read original article]
Send Your Dog on Vacation
“Memorial Day, summer vacations, weekend getaways and summer weddings are all just around the corner, so after you’ve picked the perfect destination getaway and made your plans your next thought is what to do with your dog. Leaving your dog at a kennel can be stressful and asking a friend or family member to dog sit can feel too imposing. So what is a vacationing dog owner’s next best alternative? How about a community of great dog sitters right in your neighborhood through a new web site called Dog Vacay.” [Click to read original article]
DogVacay.com Launches Superior Alternative to Kennels with a Community of Loving and Trusted Dog Boarders
“Dog Vacay, the online marketplace that matches dog owners in need of pet-care services with amazing qualified animal caregivers, launches today in Los Angeles and San Francisco. With Dog Vacay’s new service to find dogs local homes to stay when their owners are away, dog owners[...]“ [Click to read original article]
DogVacay.com is “AirBNB for Dogs,” But I’m Thinking Bulldog Rental Service
“Putting aside any reasonable skepticism one might have for any online service suffixed with “for dogs,” the just launched DogVacay.com is pitching itself as an “AirBNB for dogs.” Like AirBNB does for bedroom and home rental, the matchmaking service offers a place for regular folk to offer up their homes for dogsitting, as well as reviewing patrons and their mutts in return.” [Click to read original article]
Dog Boarding Just Got Awesome?
“We recently stumbled across a new site called DogVacay. The company allows anyone who wants to host dogs in their home to apply for a listing. It’s up to the homeowners to set their own price, allows them to choose their own schedules, and even select what type and size of dogs they are willing to host. Dog owners can book nights directly through the site and DogVacay takes a small percentage of the transaction. Sounds great, right?” [Click to read original article]
DogVacay is the AirBnB For Your Pets
“You are traveling with your 4-legged friend and it can be challenging to find the best care for your dog. You can always ask a friend or keep them at a dog-day-care center, but what if you have a dog sitter at an actual home to take care of your pet that ensures one-on-one care? The difficulty is actually finding dog lovers who want to babysit for dogs in their spare time.” [Click to read original article]
DogVacay, A Site That Connects Dog Owners to Dog Sitters
“Dog Vacay allows you to find a real home to board your dog. It’s better than a kennel where Spot will be stuck in a cage all day. Home boarding gives your dog individual attention, fun with a small number of well-socialized dogs, and supervision from a responsible pet owner – at a price that doesn’t add up to more than your vacation.”
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Dog Vacay: Pet Care Alternative Launches
“Dog Vacay, an online marketplace that matches dog owners in need of pet-care services with amazing qualified animal caregivers, launched yesterday in Los Angeles and San Francisco and expects to expand to other parts of the country rapidly. This new service finds local homes where dogs can stay while their owners are away, so dog owners who travel are no longer forced to choose between a caged kennel or burdening a friend with the responsibility of pet-sitting.”
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Need a Getaway? Book @ DogVacay
“March 1, Los Angeles, CA – Dog Vacay (http://www.dogvacay.com/), the online marketplace that matches dog owners in need of pet-care services with amazing qualified animal caregivers, launches today in Los Angeles and San Francisco. With Dog Vacay’s new service to find dogs local homes to stay when their owners are away, dog owners who travel are no longer forced to choose between a caged kennel or burdening a friend with the responsibility of pet-sitting.”
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DogVacay: An Alternative To The Kennel
“I’m a dog lover. My wife and I treat our Corgi, Steve, like a child. And every time we have to travel, we feel awful leaving him at even the best kennel. See, Steve was a rescue dog. When we got him, the people at the rescue organization said there had been a rash of foreclosures in the area, and that people were leaving their houses and abandoning their dogs.”
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Worried About Your Pet While on the Move? DogVacay Will Take Care of Your Pup
“The biggest difficulty dog owners face these days is that they find it tough to leave their pets unattended at home when they are away. In a bid to address the problem once and for all, DogVacay now offers to take care of your puppy – and that too for a nominal rate.” [Click to read original article]
How to Rent a Dog and Get Paid For It
“Today we learned there’s an AirBnB for dogs which lets you find a temporary home for your pooch without going through pet hotels or the like. But where you pet owners may be seeing this as a good chance to get away, those of us who covet your adorable puppy see something else: puppy rental! And a rental you get paid for! You can sign up to be a dog host in your home through DogVacay, and you’ll get compensated: the site says rates start at $15 per night for pet owners, minus 5-10 percent service fee.”
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“With Summer around the corner anyone with a pooch knows you’ll have to shell out about $50/night to put your four-legged best friend in a cage while you are off on a beach. This can be distressing. Asking a friend or family to dog-sit can feel too imposing. A new site called Dog Vacay, will help you find a local home for your dog while you’re away. Pet owners who take their dogs along on trips can even utilize this service to find sitters or host homes in cities they visit. This offers a great alternative if your hotel doesn’t accept pets, or if you don’t want to leave your dog in the hotel room all day.” [Click to read original article]
DogVacay For When You Vacay
“I recently started a new full-time job and for the first time in two years I am working full-time in an office. Not only am I mourning the loss of my former flexible work from home schedule but I’m pretty sure my dogs are too. Luckily, my office is close enough that I can take a long lunch and run home to let my pups out as needed which is a huge relief for me. Now I have to think about who will watch my guys when I go on vacation this summer (wishful thinking). Enter Dog Vacay, a newly launched start-up dedicated to pet sitting.”
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DogVacay, an Airbnb Type Service For Dogs, Helps the Traveling Pet Owner
“Airbnb, a service that matches people looking for short-term lodging accommodations outside of a hotel with people willing to rent living spaces for a period of time, has gone to the dogs. According to a report by Mashable, a new website called DogVacay is advocating that traveling pet owners find local homes to house their dogs in while they’re traveling instead of housing them in a kennel.”
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Finding Fido Temporary Digs While You Are Out of Town
“There comes a time in almost every dog owner’s life that you have to leave your dog for some reason or another. You might be traveling for work, taking a much needed vacation, or forced to leave town for a less enjoyable reason – either way, you’ve got to find some type of dog boarding to accommodate your four-legged friend.” [Click to read original article]
Couch Surfing for Dogs
“If you’re planning on leaving your dog behind for a few days, you might want to consider leaving him somewhere he can feel at home. While kennels and “dog hotels” are always an option, what about finding something closer to a substitute home? Enter DogVacay, a new dog-boarding service that strives to provide dogs with the same comfort and care as they enjoy at home. DogVacay is modeled off of similar services that cater to people looking for one-of-a-kind accommodations on a budget, such as Airbnb and Couchsurfing, but for a dog.”
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Pup Culture: A Wallet-Friendly Kennel Alternative
“The next time you’re lounging poolside at your fabulous Turks and Caicos time-share, the last thing you want to be worried about is your pup’s well-being. For those averse to kennels but remiss to spend oodles on a pricey sitter, there’s now another option–Dog Vacay.” This new website is sort of like Airbnb for canines: Fellow dog owners or enthusiasts offer up their homes for a nightly rate (as low as $15), and you, in turn, select a suitable, local host with which to leave your precious pooch. If the thought of dropping Fido with strangers feels wrong, fear not: Most sitters have been pre-vetted by the site (you’ll know the ones who aren’t) and post user testimonials along with pictures of their own furry friends. Plus, you can always propose a “meet and greet” before committing.”
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