Wags & Whiskers

Our dog attended Wags every week for almost a year. We could not have been happier with the service, the love and affection the staff had for our pet, the personal care and attention we received, and most of all our dogs JOY to go there. He would wake us up on «wags day» and stand at the door till we were ready to leave. Most of the time he would stay for only ½ day. He would fall asleep on the way home waking up only long enough to walk to his bed and sleep the rest of the day. It sounds bad on my part but that’s exactly what we needed… a happy and exhausted dog! We could go back to work or whatever knowing his social, emotional, and EXERCISE needs had been met. We live in CA now and looking for another stay and play has me really really appreciating what we had in Wags And Whiskers! Try them! You (and your pet) will be so pleased.

After our last boarding at another place, my husband was not wanting to board our little beagle pup again, which is just not feasible with some of our trips. We needed to find some place to board Rocky for Christmas this year and found Wags & Whiskers. Once of the things that I liked about them is that they have both an indoor and outdoor area. The outdoor area is a backyard with plenty of items to stimulate your dog. Other places they just had concrete out door area/​or fake grass and with our dog being a hound, (he loves the outdoors, loves to smell, loves sticks) this was the kind of place we needed.
They require an evaluation day before boarding so my husband and I dropped him off on a Thursday about 3 weeks ago. We did not realize how far out W&W was from us, thought it would be an easy drive in Fort Mill since we live close to 160 on the NC side. W&W is more on the Indian Land side of Fort Mill in Lancaster County. When we dropped him off, we missed the entrance and had to turn around for it. When we picked him up, we again missed the entrance because it was so dark. We were thinking to ourselves, never again are we coming here. Then we went inside and Rocky was so excited, it was almost if he was saying «mom and dad look at what I did today, I played with S’mores and all these other dogs!!!». He was just running all over the place, as happy as could be! When we left, we knew we had to bring Rocky back for boarding for Christmas and daycare once a week.
Since then we have taken Rocky to W&W each Thursday for daycare (3 times now) and one boarding this past weekend. Rocky knows we are there and gets impatient to wait for us to get out of the car! We feel completely safe and comfortable leaving Rocky with W&W. The staff is great, accommodating, and very friendly. You can also tell they love being there and love keeping your pet! It is great for us because Rocky gets out a lot of the energy he has and then comes home and crashes, gives us a nice relaxing evening.
My complaints/​issues:
–Again the entrance. They are off of 160 which is a busy road, and the entrance/​exit is one car only gravel to the parking lot. When you are turning left off of 160 into W&W, it really comes up on you and the visibility is hard because of another entrance to something next to them with a mailbox in between. At night, it is the worst thing to see, I still have issues 3 weeks later trying to enter. W&W has got to put some lights out there to make it safe for me as a driver!
–I am not a member of facebook, but my husband is and I like to look at their page. They only post to their page every once in awhile though. I wish they would post pictures a little more often, it would just be fun to see your pup or others each day.
I don’t want to take a star away from the entrance issue as everything else about W&W is fantastic. We bought a 20 day daycare pass, so Rocky is going to be going there weekly for awhile. Well worth the out of the way drive and entrance inconvenience!
Thank you W&W for keeping our Rocky safe and happy!