Paws Of Fun

I had this place recommended to me by someone I met while we were walking our dogs in Hollis Park (hi Sarah), and I brought my foster dog Coco in for a bath-​and-​dry to celebrate the day she went to her forever home. We arrived before they’d opened, but David invited us in anyhow and (after asking about allergies) started feeding Coco treats. BFFs 4 lyfe. I filled in some paperwork and then took myself off to nearby café Gather on the Green for a takeaway chai while I read in the park. David very kindly rang to let me know when Coco was ready to be collected. The store is designed so that there’s a gated enclosed area that allows the dogs to sit on a bench seat in the shopfront window, so the first thing I saw when I walked up was Coco staring out at me and going bananas. David gave me her report card (and I’d like to take a photo of it and post it here as it’s adorable but I left it in my housemate’s car) — gold stars all the way! and he’d even written a very sweet message about finding her forever home and gave her a gift bag of chewy boney things. My emotions were very surface-​y and he was really very kind and helped me pick out a toy from the huge selection to keep her occupied. These guys also run a group doggy day care if you need your dog looked after while you’re at work or whatever — I wish I’d had the wherewithal to take advantage of it because I have no doubt that any dog would have a good time and be well looked after there. (The Facebook pics from the sessions are super cute.) Coco was happy to see me in a I’ve-been-having-the-best-time-and-I’m-so-glad-you’re-here! kind of way.
Unrelated to this review, on our walk home we went via the old Darlington school in the grounds of Sydney Uni and Coco realised a two-​month-​long dream when she managed to jump into the swampy moat part and thus destroyed all of David’s hard work grooming her.