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Any dog owner who travels frequently needs to have a strategy for caring for his or her four-legged friend while away from home, and it's ideal if the pet can have its regular grooming at this time, too. While family members may be able to take your dog on occasion, you might feel reluctant to ask every time you need to travel.

In such a case, it's a good idea to have a reliable overnight pet grooming service in your community that can take your dog until you're home. There may be multiple services of this type, so it's important to visit each one of them and assess which location will be best for you and your pet. Here are some things that the best grooming services offer.

Daily Exercise

Dogs need to get out and walk or run every day, especially if they're puppies or larger dogs that are filled with energy. While it's fine for the dogs to be confined to pens for the majority of the day, look for an overnight pet grooming service that gives its pets daily exercise. Ideally, there will be more than one period of exercise. This can come in the form of a daily walk or time spent running around with other dogs in a fenced-in area, or staff at the grooming service can take a few dogs at a time for a lengthy walk around the neighborhood.

Familiar Food

Many overnight pet grooming services allow owners to deliver a bag of food at the time that they drop off their pet. This is ideal, rather than your pet having to eat whatever food the grooming service provides. Dogs can occasionally get sick when their diet is changed dramatically, so the last thing that you want is to have your dog throwing up or experiencing diarrhea because of dietary changes. When you drop off the food, you can also leave a note explaining how much your dog eats.

Pet-Loving Staff

If you visit a few pet boarding services, you may notice that the staff at one of the businesses stands above the rest. While you want to use a service at which the staff are receptive to your requests and are professional, you also want to see that they're clearly pet lovers. Book your dog into a groomer that has staff who are doing this work for the love of caring for animals. Generally, you'll be able to quickly get an idea of this just by observing the staff members and how they interact with the other dogs.

For more information about these and other services, contact businesses like All Creatures Inn.