3 Dogs Boarding & Daycare Stay Pet Hotel

Portland’s Premier Kennel-Free Dog Boarding & Daycare

Dog Boarding & Daycare Services

Because of our careful intake process, it’s difficult for us to accommodate first-time/last minute or out of the area customers. Our intake process includes both a temperament evaluation and trial day of daycare before your dog’s first stay with us. This process keeps all of our guests safe and accustoms your dog to our daycare/boarding environment.

Serving dogs weighing 10 lbs and over – all breeds welcome!

Dog Boarding

We provide a home away from home. Choose between cage-free boarding or private suites.Leave your pup with confidence, knowing your pup is safe, comfy and feeling at ease.We actively supervise our furry guests 24/7.Special needs dogs welcome. Medication and special diet services are included.

Boarding Details

Doggy Daycare

Our trained and caring staff actively supervise our guests all day long.Large outdoor space with pools, sprinklers, play structures and plenty of room to roam.Spacious and comfortable indoor areas with futons, dog beds and ample play space.Daycare offers positive, life-long socialization for your dog.

Daycare Details

Waggin’ Wagon

Our mobile playgroups are an affordable way for your pup to participate in daycare when you can’t transport them there and back.A typical outing is 5-6 hours, including travel time.We’ll pick em’ up from home, bring them to our place to let them play with their friends and then bring them back home to you happy and tired.

Mobile Play Details

Two Locations – One Philosophy

We believe our four-legged guests deserve a home away from home – a safe environment where they can enjoy natural doggy routines of playing, resting and socializing. Both 3 Dogs Boarding & Daycare and Stay Pet Hotel offer just that:

• Large, fenced outdoor play areas with play structures, water features and plenty to sniff.
• Spacious climate-controlled indoor areas full of comfy beds, chairs and laps.
• Caring and attentive staff supervising guests day and night.
• Small-group enrichment activities with staff and fellow pups. One-on-one time with staff for those dogs who prefer people to dogs.

At 3 Dogs and Stay Pet, everything is included in our standard boarding fees and daycare fees. There are no additional charges for:

• Special diets
• Medication
• Physical exercise
• Personal attention
• Individualized meals and/or snacks – even if it means hand feeding!

Like you at home, we learn our furry guests’ personality traits, quirky habits and individual preferences. Whether a favorite game or hand feeding, every guest gets exactly what they need.

Announcements

Testimonials

Our rescue Blue Heeler has a standing reservation for daycare at 3 Dogs Boarding & Daycare. She’s hyper-vigilant to compensate for her deafness. Other than home, 3 Dogs is the one place she lets down her guard and shows her true, sweet self.

– Lea Ann Easton

Tilly’s person

See for Yourself

Dogs play, learn, socialize at our daycare facilities

And that’s just what we offer at 3 Dogs Boarding & Daycare and Stay Pet Hotel. For everyone’s safety, we take great care to manage our guests’ excitement level and how they interact with each other. The goal is to group compatible guests together so that each day at doggy daycare is safe, fun, fulfilling.

We see benefits for dogs of all ages:

• Daycare offers early socialization for pups, helping to prevent behavior issues as they grow up.
• Daycare offers mature dogs ongoing socialization, exercise and mental stimulation, helping to prevent boredom, frustration and separation anxiety.
• Daycare keeps your senior or special needs dog on schedule for medications and special diets while you’re at work.

There’s more than meets the eye in a well-managed daycare: staff training, facility design, and activities selected to bring out the best in each furry guest. Just to point out a few features of our daycare:

• Our staff is trained to manage behavior and play before tensions escalate.
• We keep our reception area quiet, allowing only one dog at a time to enter or exit.
• We carefully manage daily introductions, bringing one guest at a time into the daycare area.
• We actively supervise play all day, engaging groups of compatible dogs in a mix of structured and unstructured activities.

Take advantage of our off-street parking when dropping off and picking up your pup.

• Mental stimulation of our sturdy play equipment keeps your dog engaged.

• Supervised play and social interactions keep your dog safe and at ease.

• Climate-controlled indoor play areas are comfortable year round.

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A Fresh Concept in Dog Boarding

Choose between cage-free boarding & private suites

You can choose between kennel-free boarding or a private suite, depending on your dog’s personal needs. The kennel-free boarding areas are full of futons, cushy chairs and laps to sleep on. The private suites, located at Stay Pet Hotel, are furnished with cozy beds. They get plenty of natural light and are roomy enough for dog families to stay together. We keep these areas clean, peaceful and low stress for our guests. Suites are limited, so reserve early!

Our overnight guests enjoy access to all the same amenities as daycare pups. We believe it’s crucial for our boarders to have fresh air, social time, ample room to roam and the freedom to potty outdoors. To make this homey experience possible, we maintain a higher staff-to-guest ratio than most boarding facilities. We not only schedule more staff but, also, guarantee they’re physically on the premises and actively supervising our guests 24/7.

Stay Pet Hotel maintains office hours seven days per week. That means you needn’t miss your pup a single day longer than absolutely necessary! There is a set time frame for check in so that everyone gets acquainted and settled well before nighttime. Check out, on the other hand, is available any time during business hours.

Express Boarding Check in

We know that every minute counts when you’re on your way to the airport or off on a road trip. Existing customers – Speed up your drop off by completing the Boarding Intake Form after your boarding reservation is confirmed. This form is for current customers who already have a confirmed boarding reservation.

No wasting time hunting around for street parking! You can count on our ample off-street customer parking.

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The dog lovers’ approach to overnight boarding…

Boarding Info

• Is your dog comfortable around others? Choose kennel-free boarding.

• Does your dog prefer their own space? Opt for a private suite at Stay Pet Hotel.

• For a staycation to remember, boarders enjoy full access to our spacious daycare facilities and trained staff who are on hand 24/7.

Convenience for You

Manage reservations online or with our mobile app

No more waiting for our office hours to make and change reservations!

Here we are in the Silicon Forest, and it seems only right to offer our wired customers the convenience and self-scheduling. We’re excited to offer a secure customer portal as well as a mobile app by which to manage your account.

We’ll always have office staff present during posted office hours. If you prefer using email and phone, please feel welcome to do so.

• Easy-access scheduling enables you to make daycare reservations, request boarding and review your calendar at a glance.

• 24/7 self-service through our customer portal. Or call/email office staff who are on hand during office hours.

• Use the new 3 Dogs and Stay Pet Hotel mobile app for scheduling daycare or requesting boarding on the go!

Announcing!

Secure customer portal and mobile app for making reservations.

Need Help with Logistics?

Try Waggin’ Wagon mobile daycare program

Time to jump on the wagon?

Waggin’ Wagon Mobile Playgroups offer many benefits to you and your pup.

Mobile Playgroup Info

• We come to your house and transport your pup to daycare. The ride is part of the fun.

• Surprisingly affordable. Waggin’ Wagon costs about the same as regular daycare.

• Mobile playgroups help keep your dog busy, happy and out of mischief!

FAQ – General Questions

What should I do if my dog hasn’t been to daycare and boarding for awhile?

COVID-19 has affected all of us in many different ways. Some of the changes have been positive and others less so. It’s the same for our dogs. Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen many changes in the dogs as they return to a more “normal” social life. Separation anxiety is the most common change. Another is that some dogs are behind socially – they haven’t learned how to play or interpret responses from other pups. It can be super frustrating not to understand or be understood.

Our goal has always been to provide a safe, comfortable and enjoyable space for your pups to be when they aren’t with you. In dog years your pup has been out of the scene for a long time.

We want to set everyone up for success, especially your dog. Depending on how long since your last visit, we may need to start the process all over again with a new evaluation appointment or, possibly, just schedule a revisit day.

Some things that we take into consideration when that choice is made are the following:

• How long has it been since my dog was there?
• How old was my dog then vs. now?
• What sort of socializing have they been doing with other dogs during that time?
• Any behavior concerns or issues and what are they?
• Have they spent any time away from you and, if so, how long and how did they do?

For the pup who hasn’t been away from you for more than an hour or two in the last two years, spending a day at daycare could be very stressful. Some dogs have come back as if they had never left. However, for many, it’s been tough for the first couple of visits. Like yours, their world shrank dramatically for a period of time. This period of sheltering in place may have come at a pivotal time in their developmental process, leaving them ill-equipped for the highly social nature of boarding or daycare. Also, dogs change as they age; they may have become less patient with youngsters or less tolerant of larger group settings.

If you’re considering resuming boarding or daycare with us (YAY! We’ve missed you!), please plan ahead a few weeks if you can. We may need to ease your pup back into the routine before boarding for a week or more. Every dog is different!

As always, we will need proof of current vaccines, and your pup will need to be on effective flea prevention.

What kind of training does your staff have?

3 Dogs Boarding and Daycare and Stay Pet Hotel are owned and operated by Anne Graves and Mike Lauria. Anne is an experienced veterinary technician while Mike is a professional dog trainer. Mike has decades of experience managing cage-free boarding and daycare facilities.

Many of our staff members have prior experience in dog boarding and dog daycare facilities. Most are certified in Pet First Aid and CPR.

Is my pet always supervised while at 3 Dogs and Stay Pet Hotel?

Yes, we have plenty of staff supervising the play all day long, and we have staff on-site, awake and with the dogs 24-hours a day.

How do I go about having my dog evaluated and enrolled?

Simple: Contact us. We schedule all evaluations in advance to ensure that we have sufficient time to introduce each dog into our group. We don’t like to rush the process. Generally, we schedule evaluations from early-to-late afternoon to avoid interruptions by incoming boarding and daycare dogs.

You can also start by filling out our application. We’ll call you to schedule the evaluation.

What is the difference between “dog daycare” and “dog boarding?”

Dog daycare generally means that you’re leaving your dog for a period of time during the day: while your at work, taking a day trip, shopping, etc. You then pick your dog up by the end of that same day during our posted office hours.

Dog boarding simply means that you’re leaving your dog for one or more nights while on vacation, business trips, doing home renovations, etc.

How do you keep your facility clean?

One of the benefits of our unique, cage-free setup? Our staff needn’t spend hours cleaning out kennels and dog runs. Instead, we immediately clean up any messes that are made while we’re supervising the groups of dogs.

In short, messes aren’t sitting for hours before being removed, which keeps our space sanitary and more odor-free than other facilities. We also do frequent, thorough cleanings of the facility. For the health of our guests and the planet, we always choose safe, environmentally friendly cleaning products.

All of the dog waste is stored in compostable bags until it’s picked up by the Green Pet Composting Company, where it is professionally composted.

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Ready to get started? Fill out our application. We’ll contact you to schedule a temperament test.

3 Dogs Office Hours

Mon. – Fri. 6:30 AM – 7:00 PM

Address: 5430 NE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR 97218

Phone: 503-206-3028

Stay Pet Office Hours

Mon. – Fri. 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM Sat. – Sun. 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Address: 3606 NE Columbia Blvd. Portland, OR 97211

Phone: 503-288-7829

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