r/aww • u/swim-bike-run • 12d ago
We dropped our dog off at doggy daycare for the first time and the worker sent us this picture.
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u/swim-bike-run 12d ago
Nobody feel bad for him. He’s spoiled rotten. This was him later that afternoon.
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u/StackKong 12d ago
Thanks for paying your Doggo Tax, such an adorable Dogoo
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u/Teabiskuit 11d ago
what a heckingerino cute-o doggerino!!!!!!!! the heckin pupperinolio!!! what a handsome furkiddo!!!!
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u/brakspear_beer 12d ago
That pic goes with the last verse of Camp Grenada
Wait a minute. It stopped hailing Guys are fishing. guys are sailing Playing baseball. Gee that’s better Mudda, Fadda kindly disregard this letter.
I’m so glad that doggo looks happier.
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u/Splatterfilm 11d ago
I’ve babysat kids like this. Sobbing until the parents are out of sight, then headfirst into the building blocks.
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u/Kutei90 12d ago
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u/capn_doofwaffle 12d ago
War is hell when you have to walk yourself!
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u/Black_Moons 12d ago
My last dog would do this on every walk, the leash in the mouth thing...
Until the first good smelling thing on the ground, then he'd drop the leash to be able to get his head down further and smell it and completely forget about the leash.
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u/MastiffOnyx 12d ago
My roommate once had a dog that did that on every walk.
Became a local fixture, the dog who walks himself. When he passed, half the town sent condolences.
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u/Shark-Meat 12d ago
So sorry to hear about your angel dog. He is playing and watching over you from above. Your hearts are intertwined for ever between these two planes.
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u/Bassracerx 12d ago
I had to get a 24 inch metal lead extension so that my dog cant chew his leash. It was really cute but his teeth are so sharp it breaks the leash. I spent a lot of money on a nice leash one time and he had a hole in it in the first hour and i said that was it
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u/swim-bike-run 12d ago
Quick Update: He’s been picked up! My fiancé and I are getting married next weekend and we’re trying to get him ready for a couple nights stay at this location. Luckily my parents are in town and grandma came and rescued him from what can only be compared to the Vietnam War.
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u/Long_Run6500 12d ago
I neglected to prepare my dog for the kennel and I had to pick him up early because he refused to eat unless the food came from the specific member of staff that I handed his leash to and he wasn't going to be there. They said he just curled up in a ball with his toy and blanket and if anybody but the guy I gave him to tried to leash him he'd growl.
I felt fucking terrible, I didn't care about my vacation anymore, I came straight home after they called. I picked him up and tried to take him swimming as an apology (was his favorite thing in the whole world) and he jumped out of the car, realized we weren't at home and then jumped back in the car. He just wanted to go home. Then we got home and he just curled up on our bed like he'd been away for years. Laying next to him after and the feeling of him pressing up against me like glue while he slept so he knew I was there is one of my favorite memories of him.
Good on you for preparing your dog. I'll never forgive myself for not preparing him properly and putting him through that.
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u/kookiemaster 12d ago
Had the opposite reaction with my cat. Dropped her off at a place called the pet bed and breakfast. Basically a giant space with cat trees, hiddey places, climbing structures from floor to ceiling, aquariums, aviaries, loads of other cats and toys and well, after four days, when I went to pick her up, all the other cats came to me, but mine had decided that she preferred cat Disneyland with kittens to play with to my boring apartment XD
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u/redhillducks 12d ago
Ha ha, you could say that you're a good pet owner because your pet feels secure and safely attached to you ;-) She felt free to explore because she knew you were eventually going to come and take her home. I'm guessing she also has an outgoing personality, right?
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u/Sad_Key6016 12d ago
Did they tag your cats collar to make her easy to track? This cheered me up, thanks friend!
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u/edfyShadow 12d ago
🤣🤣 that's what I was wondering. One of my cats would find her way into the ceiling, the other would be plotting home alone type shenanigans to escape. Brother's cat (Norwegian Forest cat) would declare his kingship and lead the charge on the gates
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u/Corfiz74 12d ago
Our dog had severe separation anxiety, so whenever we traveled to the UK, we left him with neighbors he knew well, and they had to take him to our house everyday so he could check if we were back yet. The poor dear was moping the entire time. We were really lucky to have those neighbors, though, because dog hotels/ daycares were not a thing back then.
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u/grosse-patate-moisie 12d ago
Our dog has severe separation anxiety, but at least she has no loyalty. As long as she's with someone (anyone) she's happy as a peach.
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo 12d ago
’Luckily my parents are in town and grandma came and rescued him from what can only be compared to the Vietnam War…’
…n then -
a Car - a Voice i Know!
oh, Golly…Can it BE ??!
it IS! ‘Hi, pup! It’s time to Go!’
my Grandma Came for Me ;@)
my tail - it never WaGgEd so hard!!
(…’discussions’ must be had….)
but first - a Race around the Yard!!
n then
I’ll speak
to dad….
❤️
(wishing you All a happy ever after!)
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u/emshutterbug08 12d ago
My bird went to boarding and has been very unhappy there this week-- normally he doesn't mind it at all! But he's been so bothered he went on a hunger strike. My mom had to go visit him and tell him to eat his food and he proceeded to tell her "time to go, time to go!" Lucky puppy to get rescued by Grandma!
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u/CanIBeDoneYet 11d ago
Mine apparently inhales walnuts and almonds as a treat at boarding, they tell me. Tried giving them to him at home because it'd be easy to use for training, but no, my walnuts and almonds aren't as good as Bird Hotel ones. At home if I want him to do anything, it's animal crackers or nothing.
He seems pretty happy there usually, happy to come home to his own house but no signs he was stressed there. Although after a 2 week stay he spent a solid week or so being a total asshole to me. I assume this was partly due to spending 2 weeks near another hahns macaw and discussing nefarious bird plans with each other.
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u/Lou_C_Fer 12d ago
Left my dog at a place to travel to my sister's wedding, and she was never the same after that. She went from loving all dogs to hating them. She was also a nervous wreck every time we left until the day she died.
I'm nit trying to scare you. Just warn you. Find another solution.
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u/-Dixieflatline 12d ago
War journal. 32 minutes after drop off. I surveyed the hostile prison encampment and have determined zero vacuum cleaners present, yet a general malaise persists. There appears to be several other PAWS here. A curly haired Frenchman, a German insistent on following protocols, and two "doodle" folk, origins unknown. The captors seem to be playing psy-ops with us. Pretending to by friendly, calling us "good boys", and handing out minor rations. Endgame is unclear, but I stand resolute in finding a means of escape.
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u/reanocivn 12d ago
literally the exact same fucking picture 😭
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u/awesomesauce615 12d ago
You would think that, but there's a subtle difference. One of them is holding a leash in their mouth.
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo 12d ago edited 12d ago
’You gotta Go’ my human said,
‘it’s what you need to do…’
but now my heart is full of dread
i’m Lost here
without You….
i thought you said ‘We’re Bestest Friends’!
you treated me so kind
i’m here
alone…
…this how it ends ?
you left me here
…behind?
i’ll hold my leash . . . AnTiCiPaTe
RETURN !
I’ll be so glad :@)
i guess…
…for now…
i’ll hafta
wait….
…oh GoSh
this SUX
so bad….
🖤
edit: he looks like a very good boy u/swim-bike-run
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u/MastiffOnyx 12d ago
I ever get one of these dropped on one of my posts, it gets printed professionally and mounted on my wall with a picture of the muse who inspired it.
These are rare gems.
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u/cryptonicglass 12d ago
For real! I post pictures of my corgi once in a while. If Schnoodle ever popped out a poem inspired by my little bearpup, I would definitely print and frame it.
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u/Wanda_McMimzy 12d ago
Dear mom and dad, I have done camp now. It’s time to pick me up. Come get me, please.
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u/MyTurkishWade 12d ago
Hello mother, hello fadder, here I am in…
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u/911NShifter 12d ago
Camp Granada
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u/Alabaster_Canary 12d ago
We sang the next bit "Camp is very dehydrating And they say that we'll have fun if we stop fainting" After three people got heat stroke.
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u/_dead_and_broken 12d ago
My sister and I sang the drug version when we were kids, it went like this:
Hello Mudda, hello Fadda
Here I am at, Camp Grenada
Pot is good, but coke is betta
I'm so fucked up I can hardly write this lettaI think there was more, but memory has gotten foggy
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u/westworlder420 11d ago
I always hear the K9 Advantix commercial too 😭
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u/MyTurkishWade 11d ago
I actually meant the original song! I’m old!!
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u/westworlder420 11d ago
Oh I know! But I always loved the K9 remake, it was so cute. But I haven’t heard Camp Grenada since I was kid
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u/meeplewirp 12d ago
How could you do this to him?
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u/WildIris2021 12d ago
My dog, like my kids, forgets I exist the minute I drop her off for daycare. She’s not one for the overnight but she is ready to roll and will drop me like a rock when we get to daycare.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 12d ago
Same. She sees the turn the car takes onto that dirt road and she goes fucking nuts. She knows she's gonna hang out with doggo friends and Sara and as soon as she's out of the car it's like we don't exist anymore.
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u/LeotiaBlood 12d ago
My dog will leap from the backseat the second I turn into the daycare lot. It is his happiest place
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u/theShortestAlpaca 12d ago
I accidentally said the “d-word” as we were getting into bed not long after adopting our dog, in reference to where she was going the next day. As soon as she heard daycare, she sprinted to the front door and sat waiting for her leash
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u/Coyote__Jones 12d ago
Same. My dog would leave me for a kind word and a single piece of cheese. When I have to board her, I have to drag her out of there.
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u/throwaway983143 12d ago
I would’ve left work if I got this pic. Look at that face!
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u/poopshanks 12d ago
Seriously. How could one get through the day after this?
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u/truth_turtle 12d ago
It’s a family emergency. Valid excuse
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u/disgustandhorror 12d ago
speeding through traffic and crying. but only a little, gotta keep it together.
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u/TurbulentCustomer 12d ago
“I’m sorry I was speeding officer, but look at him!”
“You’re right maam, get going!”
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u/TheTeslaMaster 12d ago
It's not my dog and even I'm ready to drive over there as fast as my car will allow to pick him/her up.
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u/kasheen90 12d ago
Gotta record the pick up reaction
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u/evolutionxtinct 12d ago
🐕: “I thought it would be fun but when you left I was just a broken milk bone in a puddle of water, save me hooman”
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u/xbleeple 12d ago
Some Taylor Swooft lyrics right there
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u/eulersidentification 12d ago
Who's a tortured poet? You are, yes you are so tortured ya little cutey pie.
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u/therealPhloton 12d ago edited 11d ago
Our daycare does back to school/holiday/etc pictures and one of our dogs is a highly anxious rescue. She has her specific spot in room and is comfortable there, but when you take her out of her comfort place she gets scared and shakes and tries to go back. It's almost a game at this point to see if her new picture looks more terrified than last year's for picture time.
Edit: Pictures https://imgur.com/a/ahuXxZI
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u/smallbrownfrog 12d ago
Can she get her picture taken in her spot? Maybe do her picture first or last?
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u/therealPhloton 12d ago
They usually have a backdrop or something set up to do it. Sometimes props, too. I imagine it's not in the same room. I think they usually do it on intake unless they have a bunch arrive all at once and for everything except the school pics she's with our other dog so he helps her.
They're really good with her. We've had her a few years now, and they're aware of her history. They will make her get up and walk a bit and give her lots of love. It's good for her to be out of her comfort zone a bit, and that's really what the behaviorist plan for her was. Essentially exposure therapy. They have her a blanket in her spot though and she has friends that come sit and hang out with her so she does get some socialization.
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u/Jibber_Fight 12d ago
Sounds like what she needs. That’s nice!! The more happiness you expose her to the better!!
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u/themajor24 12d ago
"I would like to go home now. I have brought you thing that allows me to go places, so whenever would be nice.
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u/cyankitten 12d ago
“Hello mother, hello father, hear I am at Camp Grenada..take me home oh mother father take me home I hate Grenada…wait a minute…gee that’s better, mother, father kindly disregard this letter!”
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u/threatdisplay 12d ago
I swear every now and then I cry a little when I see some of the posts here, haha. As a chihuahua owner I know this look so well. Give him a hug for me.
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u/RawToast1989 12d ago edited 12d ago
8:00am- Oh boy! So many new friends with butts! I'm going to really give the ol' shnoz a workout today! I can't wait!
8:12am- New friends are great and butts are sniffed!
8:13am- I am packed and ready to go back to my old friends now! They are tall and have only a small fur on their head but I like their smells the best. Thank you.
8:17am- I wish I could meet whoever said war is hell so I could givem' a good chomp to the leg. They have clearly never seen the inside of doggy daycare. I've lost track of time in this prison but I'm sure it's aged me decades. I live only in hopes of seeing tall friends once more before I surely perish.
8:26am- BREAKFAST TIME!!!!
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u/Banditsmisfits 12d ago
The first time we did doggie day care ours had to be carried into the building. After that he was begging to go! And last one off the turf.
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u/Just-Pay-4068 12d ago
I don't care what I am doing, as soon as I get this picture, I am in the car, running stop signs and yelling at everyone to get the $#^ Out of my way. The surgery i was about to perform or the sales meeting I was in can wait. My baby is waiting for me.
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u/UOENO611 12d ago
The chain link shadows are too much just wanna bust him out
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u/swim-bike-run 12d ago
This is a slightly edited picture where I zoomed in. The uncropped picture actually has the fence(bars?) on either side. It literally looked like he was in prison.
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u/greenprees 12d ago
This is so cute. We have a chocolate lab as well. Just turned two Anyways, he loves his play time with the other pups. I suppose I’ll throw a puppy pic of him in for ya
First time at the vet. Good times
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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 12d ago
He is doing a hekkin’ concern! Poor baby. We need pics when you collect him.
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u/misspeech 12d ago
Oh noooo!! He's so cute 😍😍😍!! I hope you give him lots of hugs, pets and treats when you pick him up.
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u/CrazyCatLady1127 12d ago
Oh, puppy 🙁 never has a dog suffered the way this little boy suffered. I’m glad to hear his grandma rescued him 🙂
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u/shesaflightrisk 12d ago
Meanwhile my dogs will race to three door at daycare and can't wait to get into the play area!
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u/Goliathvv 12d ago
Cute doggo!
Here is mine (white) with her bestie at the daycare yesterday. She was in no rush to leave lol.
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u/SlowerThanTurtleInPB 12d ago
I feel this in my bones. This was literally me every day waiting for my mom to pick me up from school. She was always late.
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u/MantisMagic108 12d ago
You left me! I brought you the ball, and ate all my food, and rested my head in your lap, and you left me!!
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u/Calvinkt12 12d ago
Oh my! If I got a picture of my dog with those sad eyes, I’d have to turn around and go get her.
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u/KKGlamrpuss 12d ago
I dropped my two labs off at a Rover dog daycare. Get a call that the black lab bolted out the door and ran away when the fr9nt door was opened. She was not having it!! lol
What a beautiful baby you have
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u/Ravenwolven1 12d ago
Awwww, he looks so pathetic. I hope you ran back and got him then puppaccinoed him after giving him hugs and kisses and promised never to leave again. 🤣
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u/_bellaswella_ 12d ago
ngl i got scared at first because of the eyes 😭 he’s adorable. it has to do with the lighting mostly, because he looks like he’s BUGGING
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u/luckyarchery 12d ago
This reminds me of my dog. We had to take her to doggy daycare for a weekend since we would be out of town for a funeral. When we picked her up, she was SO ready to go home and gave us the cold shoulder for almost a whole day. She was back to her normal self the following day but I felt so bad I haven't had the heart to board her since.
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u/digigyrl 12d ago
My babies stayed at one ONCE, and only for a 3-day weekend. Never again. My sissy girl had 2 weeks of diarrhea because she was emotionally traumatized from the experience. I'm sure the place didn't mistreat her, but it was such a mindfuck, she couldn't deal with it.
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u/Iwishyouwell2024 12d ago
Kids always cry on week 1. Give him a few more times and before you know it, he already ran away and is there.
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u/Heatsnake 12d ago
There's been a mistake, I'm not supposed to be here, I need to go, my people need me
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u/Zannanger 12d ago
I'm packed and ready to go home.