Sugar Face Dogs - Senior Dog Care

We offer services for:

• Special Needs Pets
• Dogs

About My Business

Caring for Sweet, Old Dogs in Oakland, Piedmont, Berkeley, and the San Francisco bay area

This is just an overview. See all our info at SugarFaceDogs.com

♥ In my quiet home I offer boarding, day care, slow walks, special needs care and more.

♥ Licensed, bonded, insured, background checked and fun!

♥ Gentle physical, mental and social enrichment - walks, exploration, play, and interaction - is central to my approach, all within the limits of your pooch, of course. Naps punctuate the day but we find more fun things to do when we wake up!

♥ 25 year experience with senior dogs, references. Wanna play?! Woof!

“Sugar face” is a term of endearment for senior dogs. Their white snouts are like a frosting of sweet sugar – a sugar face!

Offering:

• Boarding in my home

• Day Care in my home

• Slow, Gentle Walks, with lots of Sniffing

• Special Needs Care both medical and psychological - Meds, Sub-Q fluids, shy, timid dogs

• Dog Taxi to the vets, the groomer, the airport, or to grandma's house.

• Play Dates in my yard with dogs who know each other and love to romp around together.

• Personal Doggie Chef - No time to make that special home made diet your vet suggested? Let me do it for you and free up your time to love your pooch!

• Drop-in Visits at your house are limited to “easy to get to neighborhoods and properties” in Piedmont, Oakland, and Berkeley with few stairs.

• Light Grooming - Let me do a good brushing of your fur baby before company comes or before the family portrait, or just to reduce the fur tumble weeds in the house!

• Poop Clean-Up for routine or extreme cases. Don't be shy to ask for help. I'm sure we all have a few good poop stories! (ugh! I know I do!)

• Pet Food & Pet Supply Delivery Management - I help manage your pantry and delivery subscriptions to Chewy.com, iHerb.com, etc., from my home computer.

• We offer Lots of Fun, Enrichment, Attention and Love for your sweet, old dog!

• End of Life Support when the time comes.

See more offerings on website - SugarFaceDogs.com

♥ INSPIRATION ♥

My inspiration for Sugar Face Dogs - Senior Dog Care came from my 25+ years of having my own senior dogs, all rescues, 11 so far (RIP).

I started Sugar Face Dogs – Senior Dog Care in 2023 as a way to remain in service to the world and keep my heart open as I slow down and move into the third stage of my life – my retirement years. (I'm a "sugar face" too!)

I love senior dogs. Caring for senior dogs is my passion, calling, avocation, charism, & spiritual gift.

♥ BACKGROUND ♥

I come from a family of dog, animal, plant, and nature lovers.

Besides the 11 senior dogs in my adult life, I grew up with 3 dogs – Duchess, a golden German Shepard rescue, and Shorty & Spunky, AKC Dachshunds, and a bunch of their puppies.

I’ve also had 13 cats (including looking after a TNR colony of feral cats in my neighborhood), birds, a pet chicken, a pet mouse, a pet guinea pig, and rescue gold fish (that I found at the bus stop!).

My mom was a teacher. She brought into her class room animals from the Alexander Lindsay Junior Museum in Walnut Creek for her students to interact with. Of course, I interacted with the animals, too, at home.

I’ve witnessed the births and deaths of these creatures, the circle of life. It’s hard on the heart. But it is real.

♥ EXPERIENCE ♥

My dog experience, besides the above mentioned 14 dogs and 13 cats in my personal life, includes:

Doggy Lama Pet Care, Oakland, CA – as a dog walker & boarder, and cat care giver

Muttville Senior Dog Rescue, San Francisco, CA – various volunteer work, plus I’ve adopted 4 dogs from them, 1 was a hospice doggie

Golden Gate Labrador Retriever Rescue, San Francisco, CA – a little volunteer work, fostered 1 hospice dog which I ended up adopting

♥ LET'S TALK NOW ♥

I'd love to chat about how I can be of service to you and your sweet, old dog!

Please call or email today! 510-420-0696 Home/office or W00F@SugarFaceDogs.com

woof!