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Originally Posted by janeno  Go with Camp Bow Wow. I left my dog at Camp Bow Wow boarding on several occasions, and she has always been fine and is super excited when we return. During the day, dogs are under supervised play and during the night each of them has their own space and get a little treat at night. I do have to mention that my dog attends doggy day care twice a week so she loves being among other dogs and is very well socialized. In 3 weeks, I am going to Mexico for 8 days and planning to board my dog at Camp Bow Wow. You can also leave them detailed instructions on administering food and meds. The only occasion I might worry leaving your dog at Camp Bow Wow if it's one of those super small yorkies (less than 4 lbs).
The vet option might be a nice option if your dog has serious medical condition and you need someone with medical expertise to supervise or being available to the dog. Otherwise, sitting in a cage for several days sounds miserable. Dogs are social creatures and usually love to socialize with other dogs (unless you dog has behavior issue - camp might not even accept your dog).
People on this forum tend to be more on the overprotective side for their yorkies. But I think that if you have healthy yorkie within normal size range (mine is 6.2 lbs), the dog will be fine and have more fun at the camp. |
If the vet has kennels and runs, there are other dogs nearby but not available to hurt them or unduly annoy them. Dogs are not children, they accept confinement to pens, single rooms and kennels with a run very well as long as they don't have to live their life that way - that's deplorable to make a dog live in a kennel for its whole life. But for a limited amount of time, most of them do rather well other than the stress of being separated from you, away from home and their routine schedule and having to deal with the new situations of being away from their regular life.