Happy Mailman Dog Day Care
Austin, TX 78736
Phone: (512) 301-2359
- Hours:
- Monday-Friday 7am-6:30pm, Saturday 9am-5pm , Sunday 4pm-6pm (pick-up only)
Message from Happy Mailman Dog Day Care
Dog boarding, dog daycare, dog training, dog wash
- Trained staff
- Safe setting
- Self Service Dog Wash
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Editorial Description for Happy Mailman Dog Day Care
Boarding and day care facility for dogs specializes in indoor and outdoor socialization and play. Pre-screening interviews are required to assess compatibility.
User Reviews for Happy Mailman Dog Day Care
04/26/2008 Posted by pobodysnerfect
I (and my dogs) love, love, love Happy Mailman! As soon as we pull into the drive they start clamoring to get out and pull me through the office as fast as they can so they can get to their friends and start playing! They love getting to make friends and play all day long. They also love the staff. My dogs never leave without giving the staff goodbye hugs. I love that I can feel confident that they will be safe, loved, and taken care of while I am at work. I want my dogs to be socialized, but steer clear of dogparks because of all the potential risks involved. Happy Mailman provides them with the socialization they need in a controlled environment. I can breathe easy knowing that all of their playmates are vaccinated and friendly and will play in a safe way without getting out of control. Also, I was very satisfied the one time that my husband and I had to board them for a few days. I called to check on them while we were away and the staff was so accommodating and was more than happy to give me a report on how they were doing. When we came to pick them up they had been bathed and their nails had been trimmed (as we requested) and I could tell that they had had a really good time. They were happy, healthy, and tired!I will never take my dogs anywhere else! Happy Mailman is the best!
Pros: friendly, honest staff & safe, controlled environment
Cons: location a little far for me, but worth it!
04/21/2008 Posted by willmonk
First, the good: Happy Mailman is very clean and new, and there seems to be a good deal of room for dogs to run and play. I have taken my active dog to Taurus and Happy Mailman, and Happy Mailman seems more spacious and clean. However, there's also bad. For one, the windows for dropping off and/or picking up your pooch can be a little bit limited. We had a specific problem with these windows, when we asked a Happy Mailman employee over the phone when we could drop off our dog. The answer was "after 9." We showed up to drop her off at around noon and were turned away and left in a serious bind. It really ruined an important wedding weekend and forced us to scramble and negatively alter our plans. The employee should have told us "from 9 to 10" if that's the window for dropping off a dog, not "after 9." Moreover, when we did show up late, the Happy Mailman people could have just made an exception or figured out some other way to accommodate us, especially because the tardiness was a consequence of their poor communication. Another thing that we were concerned about was that our dog's behavior with other dogs changed for the worse when she got back from a few days of boarding at Happy Mailman. She had a bite mark or two on her, and her behavior around other dogs suddenly and radically changed when we got her back after a long weekend. Whereas before, she was always incredibly sociable and gregarious around other dogs, almost to the point of being too friendly, she became much more defensive and on-edge after a stay at Happy Mailman. Because of the bite mark and the behavioral changes, we are assuming our dog was attacked while at Happy Mailman, but we're really not sure. I liked Happy Mailman, but the bite mark and strange behavior left a bad taste in our mouth about the place, but we figured it was an isolated incident. Then, when they refused to take our dog, leaving us in such a terrible bind for such an important event, we decided we would never go back there.
Pros: Seems clean and spacious.
Cons: Poor customer service, too expensive.
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