Heroic Pet Contest

The AARP Magazine has a really cool contest going on now through January 2010.  The Most Heroic Pet Contest.   They are looking to hear about your heroic pet.  Pets that have significantly improved or saved someone's life.  If you think your pet is the one you can go onto their website and send your information in.  The winner will receive a $1000 gift card to an online pet store, and will have their story published in the magazine!  Good Luck!

Fun Stuff Fridays...The Relax mat

This is the ultimate bed blanket! It does not collect hair like every other blanket out there. I Love it! Zentek introduced it's new blanket this fall the Relax Mat. It unfortunatly does not have any cushion like a typical bed does, but you can place this blanket over top of your pets exsisting bed. The Relax Mat has a special tempature regulating Comfortemp liner. It will keep your pet warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Angel Tree For Dogs

Help us help other families have a bright and happy holiday season.  This year Best Friends Pet Care will have their Angel Tree in the lobby to support Tails Of Hope Pet Rescue and Young At Heart Pet Rescue.  For Tails Of Hope we will be taking monetary donations to purchase walks, playtimes, baths, and other activities.  We foster dogs for Tails Of Hope here in our kennel, while they are awaiting a forever home.  The money raised will go to provide those dogs with fun activities while they are here!  For Young At Heart we will be taking donations to help them purchase food for Nina's Pet Food Pantry.  Young at Heart helps stock local pet food pantrys in the area.  For more information please call (847) 634-9444.

The Coveroo

This weeks feature on Fun Stuff Friday is not neccesarily for your pet, more or less it honors your love for your pet. You can now have your pets actual picture imprinted on a cover for your cell phone. Coveroo.com has many different designs to choose from. They have standard colored breed pictures to black and white. You can even send in an actual picture of your pet.

Holiday Charity Event

Holiday Pictures

Pledge Fabric Sweeper

Fun Stuff Fridays is a little late because I was enjoying the Family Pet Expo at Navy Pier this weekend! Beautiful weekend and a great event. I saw plenty of cool things I will be sharing with you throughout the next few weeks. This week I will make mention of the Pledge Fabric Sweeper. This is the best thing I have seen in a long while. It is disposable, only lasts for about a month or so, depending on where you shop it is right around $5.00. Well worth every dollar spent. With Toby being a Border Collie you can imagine the hair I have on the couch! Pledge had a booth at the expo this weekend and they were kind enough to pass on some samples to us. I tried it out and LOVE it! Toby loves it too, I normally do not allow him on the bed all the time because of his hair. Can't use that excuse any more!

Local Pet Food Pantry Needs Your Help

Help us help others in need. Best Friends Pet Care together with Young At Heart Pet Rescue is gathering food to supply Nina's Pet Food Pantry. Nina's is a area in the local food pantry that is dedicated to dogs and cats. This is a great way to help struggling families stay together with their pets. To see more about the beginnings of Nina's you can visit Young At Hearts web site, or read this latest article in The New York Times. You will be missed Nina, thank you to your parents for helping get this wonderful program started!

Veteran's Day For Pets

Veteran's Day is a day that is set aside once a year for us to spend time honoring our soldiers. The men and women for whom without we would not have what we have today. For a group based out of South Carolina, NetPets, every day is a day of honoring soldiers. Honoring them in a way few others can. NetPets is a non-profit organization that has arranged foster homes for 12,000 military pets since 2001! From dogs to cats, fish to reptiles, even spiders and crabs. Guardian Angels For Soldiers' Pets is another organization that does the same line of work that NetPets does. Canine Corps based out of Pennsylvania provides in-house boarding for soldier's pets left behind. The men and women who fight for our freedom are thought of each and everyday by millions of people. From well wishes, care packages, and fund raising concerts for the soldier's families. It is nice to know there are other people out there thinking of their pet's also. To some of our soldiers their pets are all they have, the piece of mind knowing they are cared for while they are away has to be a absolutely wonderful feeling. Unconditional love. For more information on how you can help please visit the above mentioned websites, or ZooToo.com. Some information from this post was retrieved from a nicely written article by Amy Lieberman on ZooToo.com

Weekends On A Wednesday

This weekend you can come visit us at the Great American Pet Expo at Navy Pier. It will be held both Saturday and Sunday.

Tails of Hope will be hosting their weekly Adoption Day at Best Friends in Prairie View Sunday the 15Th, from 3-5pm

Chihuahua's Rock Meet Up will have their November meet-up here in our camp room at 2pm on Sunday the 22NDhttp://www.meetup.com/Chihuahuas-Rock-Meetup-Group/.

Local Fire Fighters Save Pets Life

In a recent article in the Daily Herald they spoke of a mini oxygen mask being used to help save a dog. Naperville firefighters not only helped save a family's home they helped to save their furry family member too! After performing CPR on the dog they used the mini oxygen mask to stabilize the pet before handing him over to the emergency vet. Best Friends is among many companies out there who worked hard at fundraising to equip local fire stations with special pet oxygen masks. Best Friends ran their "Cause For Paws" oxygen mask program about 4 years ago. With the help of local communities they were able to help many fire departments properly help pets in need.

Thanksgiving

We are booking up fast so call today to reserve your pets a room at Best Friends! We will even have a holiday turkey roast for all of our furry friends on Thanksgiving.

For all of our new best friends your first night with us is free! (first time boarding guests receive a complimentary first night of boarding)

Retired Greyhound

It is definitely not time for Molly to retire, but her new friend Arthur decided it was his time to retire and enjoy the finer things in life. A run in the dog park, relaxing on his new bed, cuddling with his mom! Arthur is a 4 year old retired Greyhound that Molly adopted from

Greyhounds Only Rescue. Arthur had been racing for almost 2 years, and according to him he did pretty well! Molly is one of our animal care technicians here at Best Friends so Arthur is lucky enough to get to come hang out at work every day. On lunch breaks he gets to play in Best Friends Dog Park and show off his excellent running skills! Welcome to the family Arthur!

Four Paws Dog Toys

This weeks spotlight is on Four Paws brand Rough and Rugged rope toys. These are Toby's favorite toy. They all have the rope so he and I can play tug, and they also have a hard solid rubber piece in the middle for his naughty days when he likes to chew. A few of the toys have a pimple design on the rubber, I add peanut butter to one side of those freeze it for an hour and he has a whole new treat!

Weekends on a Wednesday...

Toby and I did not see to much going on in the neighborhood this weekend. However it is suppose to be in the 60's Saturday and Sunday, a great time to play at Best Friend's Dog Park! You can purchase a daily pass if you like, or a yearly pass.

Perhaps you are looking for another furry best friend. Sunday from 3-6pm Tails of Hope pet rescue will have an adoption event in our main lobby.

November Guest of the Month

This is Rushbo and Anaaya our November boarding guests of the month. They have to be the cutest little kids I have seen in a long while. They are Victorian Bull Dogs, a newer breed here in the states. We get to love on them for two whole weeks, they are enrolled in our Board and Train Program while they are boarding.

November Camper of The Month

This is Kallie Barnett our November camper of the month. Kallie loves to play with anyone in camp. She is our social butterfly of the group. If she notices someone quietly resting she is the first to go over and encourage them to play chase with her on the jungle gym. We love you Kallie!

For more information on Best Friends Doggie Camp you can visit our website or call us at(847)634-9444