The Mutt Hutt

HORRIBLE!!! The mutt hutt stole $ 400. I purchased a pass for multiple overnights then they kicked out my dog because his breed (boxer) «can’t handle their setup» and has refused to refund me. This place is horrible and borderline criminal.

I’ve brought my dog to the Mutt Hutt Grooming salon a few times and each time has been pretty good. My dog is anxious and gets separation anxiety and they handled him well without a complaint. They treat him well and he has had good experiences here.
Working with Barb was fabulous, she was so kind and gentle with my dog and gave him great cuts. I was very sad to see her leave. The newer girl, also named Barb, does a good job but she’s not as personable as the older Barb. I’ve also noticed that she’s more likely to charge extra when my dog’s coat has tangles/​matting. I really like the work they do, but I don’t like how they sometimes nickle and dime you.

The Mutt Hutt has been such a life saver! My young dog has a lot of energy and cannot yet be trusted alone in the house while I’m at work. I feel at ease on daycare days when she is able to run freely and play with dog friends! The staff seems very knowledgable and caring, and my girl sleeps for quite a while after we get home and wind down. I was nervous about overnight stays, but everything has gone fine both times. I’m so thankful to have a place to take her where I know she’s comfortable and well cared for.

Sending your dog to The Mutt Hutt is like sending a kindergarten-​aged child to a selective and elite private institution. First your dog is assessed on her behavior. If your dog is one of those who is accepted based on merit, then you have the crème-​de-​la-​crème of dogs everywhere, and you deserve a proud bumper sticker for your car. On the other hand, if your dog is accepted because you know someone who works there, or if your dog was adopted through second hand mutts (an affiliated service), then your dog is a mixed bag — could be perfect, but also could be very similar to the average dog. Anyway, we fall into the former category. Yay.
So at this point the Mutt Hutt has just confirmed for you what you already know: that your dog is perfect. Well, maybe not perfect, maybe just slightly flawed but who isn’t flawed? Unfortunately, flaws are a big deal. If your dog is discovered to have undesirable personality traits such as barking or whining, or ignoring other dogs and not wanting to play, then she quickly loses favor with the staff. You get calls from the establishment for behavioral issues, warning you of imminent danger of your dog no longer being allowed in the program. You wonder if you should be enrolling your dog in a new establishment, especially in advance of your christmas vacation, but your dog is not officially expelled per-​se, so you pray that everything turns out for the better. You think there’s no way they could expel her — at least she’s not aggressive. You try to help by telling them your dog really likes to play fetch, but they tell you that no balls are allowed inside the premise. That’s when you realize you sent your tennis star to a school with only a wrestling program — dogs just jumping on each other for fun. Every time you drop off your puppy, if she tries to run away, the staff gives an exasperated look because she’s the problem child. You try to ignore their judgmental looks and pretend nothing is wrong, hoping everything will get better soon because re-​enrolling her elsewhere when she hasn’t been kicked out is a hassle.
One day, your dog has a very bad day… she jumps up on the door. That is the day when the staff says enough is enough. They call you midday and tell you that your dog needs to be pulled from daycare immediately. In a tone not dissimilar to one you would receive when a sweater-​wearing private school tells you your child has been kicked out, The Mutt Hutt tells you that she’s no longer welcomed back. She’s having problems. She’s anxious, they say. She’s unhappy here, they say. She stands by the door. She always wants to leave. As a puppy parent, you are shocked. My angel is perfect. You must be mistaken. She’s a gentle soul, the most amazing thing. The pleas fall on deaf ears. She’s kicked out of the program.
Outside the Mutt Hutt, you give a good stare at your problem child because this is her fault — why couldn’t she just behave like all the other dogs inside the program. She spends the rest of the day in her crate because she knows something happened and it’s not good. Eventually you come to terms with the fact that maybe your dog just needs something different; that maybe you should consider dogwalkers instead. You are still upset that the Mutt Hutt gave you only three weeks to find another boarding location for your dog before Christmas (that’s like saying «Good luck finding spots elsewhere… HA!.») But ultimately you are relieved that you don’t have to deal with their judgment anymore. Walking in there whenever I went was certainly not a happy event for me, and it was clearly not a happy place for my dog. My dog may not be perfect, but she’s perfect enough for me.
So, therein lies the problem of reviewing something like The Mutt Hutt. I am sure if your dog was accepted and is a teacher’s pet, then you enjoy the place. If your dog was not accepted or kicked out, you probably have a differing opinion. How else can I judge them besides saying, in my most indifferent tone to their policies and with relief that I no longer need to jump through their hoops and obstacles: «A-​OK.»
EDIT: Maybe you’re also concerned about how the animals are treated and how the facilities are. I don’t know, although I hear good things. They don’t allow anyone to view the premises, although they have an instagram where they post pictures sometimes.

Just GROOMING EXPIERENCE!
I have to say they did the amazing job for my Maltese! I’ve tried couple different places like Petsmart and Petco, the only thing they know is to cut all your baby’s hair off. Every time your mutt will come out with a nude body which really looks awful!!! I even try to do the grooming by myself until I found this place. They really care about how your furry friend looks like! My Maltese is a little bit aggressive with grooming but obviously, they can handle it with no problem!!!
My baby looks so cute! Thank you The Mutt Hutt!

LOVE the Mutt Hutt! We take our pooch there every Tuesday for play and socialization. She runs in the door when she is dropped off and doesn’t look back! AND she comes home pooped and content. We had to go away for a few days and had our girl spent a weekend here. It is so comforting to know that your furbaby is being well taken care of.
The staff is very friendly and we have even worked with 2 trainers through the Mutt Hutt and they have helped us TREMENDOUSLY. Our furbabe was not leash trained and was quite a handful when we rescued her. She was different from all our other dogs. Through training — she now knows pretty much all her basic commands and is really coming along. BTW… Julia is a gem and you can tell how much she understands/​loves the dogs and how to work with them.
We feel so lucky to have found this place!!!

This place is doggie heaven. I bring my dogs hare for daycare and extended stays. Daycare usually happens when they got way too much energy and a trip to the dog park or a long walk just wont do. After a trip to the Hutt, they sleep for a couple days.
I’m positive they always have fun. The dogs get excited when I ask them if they want to go to the Mutt Hutt and they get super wound up the minute we pull in. They can’t get in the door fast enough.
I’m also 100% confident that my dogs get the best care possible. One of my dogs was abused by her previous owners. When she falls back on her old coping techniques from the past, we know something’s wrong and I’ve had problems with other places handling her bad times in the past. After one of our cats passed and I also started working from home, the change in environment put some stress on her and she struggled in day care – she fell back on her old coping techniques. The «pack leaders» saw this right away, called me, and we worked out a plan to rehab my dog’s social skills. A couple weeks later, and thanks to the Hutt’s awesome staff, she was back to her happy self.
Overnight stays also seem to be stress free for my dogs. It’s a cage-​free environment, which is very important as my previously abused dog cannot do cages (she was kept in a cage for the bulk of the time, daily). It’s a great experience that my dogs seem to love.

(GROOMING EXPERIENCES ONLY)
Dudes – the Mutt Hutt continues to surpass my expectations.
They are so accommodating with my little fur jerk! Over the year or so I’ve been going here, Archie and I have had both great experiences and not so great ones. Past groomers here have told me he needed puppy xanax, so we talked to the vet about it. But really all we needed were a few adjustments:
1) Early morning, first appointment. This is KEY for an anxious-​about-​the-​groomers pup. I just take him at 8:30AM now and he’s done in an hour. No other dogs are there yet, so it’s the perfect, calm atmosphere for him.
2) BARB! She’s awesome. An ornery dog-​whisperer rather. Who knows. She’s just a tremendous asset to the Mutt Hutt. She never tells me that Archie was bad and never has any issues with him. In fact, when I dropped him this past Monday, she was looking up his files on the computer and he jumped right on her lap and gave her a kiss. Now I know for certain that Barb is his go-​to lady.
Again, he was finished in an hour and wasn’t crated, which is a major bonus for all. He hates being crated. And she always finishes his spa day with a cute, yet manly, scarf. Ha!
Go with Barb if you have a troublesome pup!

We bring our puppy Parsnip here about once a week, and she loves this place! She always rushes through the doors in the morning, and we have to carry her out at the end of the day– she is totally worn out!
I also love that throughout the day they post pictures to Instagram/​Facebook of the dogs playing. It seems like everyone that works there is a serious animal lover. Definitely recommend this place!

I have 100% confidence that when I leave my border collie mutt and German Shepherd at The Mutt Hutt that they are in excellent hands! My dogs always seem to enjoy themselves and always come home exhausted, which is an extra perk!
My border collie has epilepsy and The Mutt Hutt has always done an excellent job giving him his meds and caring for him. The German Shepherd is still young and is a bit of a handful. He also suffers a bit of separation anxiety. However, they always manage to do an excellent job with him as well.
I also get both dogs groomed there from time to time and they always do an amazing job!
My dogs are literally like my children. The fact that I have found a place I can trust with their care is the most amazing feeling there is.

Our Stanley has been going to MH now for about 6 months and LOVES it. He mostly goes for daycare but has stayed for a weekend once. He gets excited when he sees us pull up to door and doesn’t even look back when we hand him over to the very nice dog-​loving people who work there. They do have limits to the number of dogs that they take for daycare on a given day, so if there is a day that you really really need the dog to go, reserve your spot ahead of time. But that said, we’ve never had them turn us away when we call them at 7:30 am and drop him off an hour later. I love the idea of no cages and to think of all the dogs just running around free and crashing together at night.
The only thing that could make this place better is if it had cameras and web streaming so you could see your mutt in action like other shelters have. I know how expensive that must be and I get that they are a small business who couldn’t afford it, but dang I would love to see what he gets into all day — he’s totally worn out for at least 24 hours afterwards!
A great place with dog lovers who love to take care of your beloved mutt. Never had an issue here. Once Stanley got a small cut when he was playing with the other dogs, they promptly took him to the vet and got him stapled up and spent the rest of the afternoon pampering him in the front office until his mommy could get him.
We are very pleased with the Mutt Hutt. Fair prices for daycare and boarding for your pooch. And if I am ever super-​rich, I’m donating those cameras and web-​streaming equipment!

Look… We dog owners take the care and well-​being of our fuzzy familiy members very seriously!
So, it’s with completely confidence that I give The Mutt Hutt the coveted 5-​star rating not only for their cage-​free, pack-​leader controlled environment, but also because of the excellent pack standards they maintain with dogs of all shapes, sizes, personalities, breeds and ages. Their awesome leaders and very polite pack have been keeping my short dog happily and safely busy for a year now. Twice a week, she gets to expend all of her energy there and comes home well-​exercised, well-​socialized and sleepy. In general, I consider the place not only incredibly good for her, but also good for me! =)

I’m currently taking my 9 month old recently adopted puppy here. She loves it — and I love knowing that she is getting some great socialization while being watched by great people. We go once a week, and it definitely helps to use up her energy. I’ve also noticed a change in her behavior… She definitely «listens» better. Check them out!

sooo i took my VERY energetic goldendoodle, Kolby, here for his initial pet evaluation. Apparently, Mr. K passed with flying colors because we were invited back. wahoo. :O)
from the time i walked in and observed the funky lime green chairs and lamp, i knew this was a cool place for K to hang with his furry friends, while his mom, (that’s me!) would be slaving away at this crazy place called work.
the paperwork that comes home with your fluff nugget clearly answers all of your questions and kolby was completely EXHAUSTED when i picked him up.
I think the exact words were, «he has a lot of energy»… i also had the pleasure of meeting their groomer, after telling them at check in i was highly dissatisfied with his boot camp hair cut, he had received at a well known chain store!
kolby will definitely be headed back for some dawg gone fun day care and some spa services to pamper his furry little face!
thanks, mutt hutt!
p. s. he was sooo tired that he actually laid around the rest of the night. way to go!!! that in itself is a much needed treat for me!

The staff at the Mutt Hutt are wonderful and I respect how much they care about rescue animals. Becca has allowed me to bring a young pup I am fostering, Tulip, that desperately needs socialization and a place to burn off some energy. My senior dogs were so grateful when she came back calm and exhausted last night. It is a wonderful place for your dog to learn appropriate ways to interact with others in a safe environment. I love the concept of dog parks, but unfortunately I have had too many experiences where people bring aggressive dogs there and I cannot feel confident about my dogs safety. With The Mutt Hutt, you know your dog is going to be safe because aggressive behavior simply will not be tolerated. The staff there is too competent, knowledgeable and compassionate to allow that.
I’ve always believed other dogs are often the best trainers out there. When taking Tulip to The Mutt Hutt, I can feel good knowing she is having a great time playing, she is building her confidence, becoming socialized and learning from others.

We love the Mutt Hutt! Whenever our dogs go there they come back tired and happy. Becca is so awesome! They really helped our big dog, Apollo, calm down around other dogs. Going there has also been really good socializing for our diva Corgi. The overnight service is really nice and the rates are very reasonable. The staff love the dogs and we feel safe leaving the furry members of our family there.

Leaving your dog overnight and away from Mom & Dad is a stressful thing. For both parties. You want a place with a careful staff, one you and your dog trusts and feel comfortable with. While I do trust the staff at Mutt-​Hutt, I am a little disappointed with one thing in particular…
My Bailey (75lb German Short Haired Pointer) has stayed at the Mutt Hutt on several occasions. Both for day care and several overnight stays of both short and extended lengths. The advantage of this place is the cage free environment they offer. Bailey no longer sleeps in a crate at home so we thought it would be more comfortable for him to stay at a place that would allow him to socialize freely with the other dogs and at the end of the night, sleep on the hodge podge furniture throughout this house.
The last time we picked him up, the staff said Bailey isn’t allowed to stay overnight anymore. Ruh Roh! Apparently he «barks» too much. Huh? I could understand if he was aggressive, but he’s not. At all. High energy, yes, but he’s also the kindest, most gentle soul you’d ever meet. But he barks a tad too much according to the staff. That’s like saying your child can’t stay at day care anymore because your kid cries or talks too much. Nothing wrong with the kid. He plays well with others and is generally fun to be around, but he makes noise. What? Thanks anyways Mutt Hutt. We’ll find somewhere else to take our pooch.