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Seattle Dog Boarding
Personalized, home-style care for your furry family members in Seattle.
3.6(5 reviews)
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Personalized, home-style care for your furry family members in Seattle.
Seattle Dog Boarding offers a cozy, non-commercial alternative to large kennels, providing personalized boarding and daycare services in a home environment. Owner Pete focuses on individual attention, especially for dogs with special needs like separation anxiety. With flexible scheduling, photo updates, and a genuine love for animals, we aim to give your pet a comfortable, stress-free stay. Located conveniently in Seattle, we welcome dogs of all temperaments and strive to treat every guest like family.
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Home-style boarding in a comfortable, low-stress environment with personalized care and attention.
Daily care and supervision for your dog, including playtime and companionship while you're away.
Accommodating scheduling options, including late pick-ups and emergency arrangements.
Expert handling of dogs with separation anxiety, reactivity, or other behavioral considerations.
Regular photo and text updates to keep you connected with your pet during their stay.
I left my dogs with Pete for a week. Overall the dogs were happy and weren't abused when I got them back, but he only fed them half of what I had specified and they had lost significant weight from being more active than normal and underfed. I specified each got 1.5 cups twice a day and he fed them 1.5 cups once a day. I was concerned when I saw their weight loss and the amount of food I got back because I had measured it out. When I got it home, I measured it back into my main food container and it was exactly half their food for a week. I'm not bringing them back here even though it was a bit cheaper than the big commercial places. Two stars because they were happy and otherwise healthy when I got them back. But if you can't even be bothered to care how much to feed them (and he never asked if he was unsure) and obviously that's not enough food for my size dogs - I'm not trusting him again.
My review is a bit… different, but this definitely affects customers. In summary: Pete is a field of red flags, and he is willing to leave your dogs in the hands of a total stranger so he can go off and party. I’ve sat on speaking up about this, since I live close to Pete and I don’t know what he’s capable of. I also wasn’t sure if he was still in business, but I finally saw his yard signs back up recently. He shouldn’t be allowed around women under 25, and he shouldn’t be responsible for animals. On Halloween of 2024, my roommate and I were on an early evening walk. We stopped in front of Pete’s home and business, because I saw his signage with contact info. I have loved being a dog walker and sitter for years as my second job, and I was looking for work. He heard us talking on the sidewalk in front of his house, and came out to see what was going on while he was on a phone call. I told him I’m a dog walker and sitter, etc. He initially seemed like just a very animated and friendly man. He quickly lit up, and asked me if I wanted to get paid very good money to stay in his house and watch all of his clients’ dogs for the night, because he wanted to go to this Halloween party and stay out until 2 AM. I was desperate for extra income and job leads, rent was due, and the weirdness wasn’t really hitting me yet, so at the time, I said yes. People, Pete was about to put your dogs in the hands of a complete stranger off the street, going off nothing but my word. Just so he could go party. I wonder what state he would have arrived home in at 2 AM… The story continues. He kept talking, and the more he talked, the more he went from “eccentric older guy who means well” to alarm bells and red flags flying everywhere. I’ve seen medical mania before, and he reminded me of that. I truly wonder if he was on something. At that point, I was internally panicking and figuring out how to get out of what I agreed to. I did NOT want to enter this man’s home, even with safety buddies. He told us about his dog walkers he hires, who seem to be all teenage and college aged girls. He somehow thought my female roommate and I were around that age, and he wanted to hire us (we are 35 and 40 years old.) Pete would NOT stop yell-talking for the longest time — he kept bringing up odd stories about partying, etc… in which he constantly spoke of women in very condescending and infantilizing ways, talked about their race for no reason, etc. He told us he had a 22-year-old girlfriend “a few years ago,” and he is solidly in his 50s or 60s. He was still on the phone and nearly ignoring his friend, the whole time. Eventually, Pete told us he’d recently tried to convince a group of former employees (college girls) to come work for him again, since he desperately needed reliable staff. (Jee, wonder why he struggles with that). He said they turned down his offer because they’d found financial success working on a certain popular adult content subscription site, and he proceeded to tell us details about the kind of adult content they produce. Wow. Why is this old man talking to very young adult girls about this stuff? And then telling us about it without our consent! What a CREEP. Normally I would have some serious words to say to a man like that… but I would have had to deal with looking over my shoulder all the time, since he is my neighbor. We had been trying to excuse ourselves to leave, and it took about four times (he even said he knew we were trying to go), until we practically had to force an end to the one-sided conversation and walk away. I kept telling him that I got his number from his sign, and that I’d text him about watching the dogs the second I got home. I BOOKED it down the sidewalk to my house, and texted him from a Google voice number (would never use my real one with him) that something came up, and that I was sorry I couldn’t sit that night. I was very okay with his lack of response!
Pete was an enormous help to us when I was having my baby. He was willing to have a flexible drop off time, and he even said that he would leave his phone on in case the baby came in the middle of the night. When it was time, my dog (who had never met him) instantly liked him and was happy to be left at his house. Pete sent pictures of my dog having a nice time, and seemed genuinely happy to have my dog stay with him. He even gave my dog a toy to take home with us! Pete's services were above and beyond what I was expecting, he treated us like friends even though we were strangers. I am so happy we found him, and I would absolutely recommend him!
When we first contacted Pete he was super responsive and he was able to take King on July 4th weekend for boarding. As we did our research we realized this wasn’t a commercial place where they have a large amount of dogs which we really wanted for King We told him he had separation anxiety and said it wouldn’t be a problem. We also received updates from him throughout the day. Pete’s accommodation for late pick up was greatly appreciated since we were held up from our drive on the way to get him. Upon arrival, King looked super happy to see us, looked well rested and fine. Pete said he was a perfect dog and we really appreciate his words! We’ll definitely have Pete take care King for boarding and day care if needed. Thank you Pete!
We needed a place for our reactive dog to stay for the day while went for a hike on a trail with many other dogs. Pete was responsive & communicative and sent us many photos of our dog. Thank you so much!!
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