Do you serve Boston for board and train?

Every trip has a job, and only some of them combine. The evaluation is a weekday morning, between 6:30 and 9:30 AM. Drop-off follows on the agreed day. Go-home day joins pick-up to the first lesson, since the handover happens with you on the leash. Advanced adds a second scheduled coaching lesson, which means one more drive. At about an hour each way outside rush hour, by our estimate, that is around six hours of driving for Foundation and eight for Advanced.

Ask how the consult is held. If it is in person, add a trip, or pair it with the evaluation morning if the team can fit both. The table sets out each drive and what it asks of you. As a total, the travel is modest beside a season of weekly classes, but it lands on particular days, so put every one of them in the calendar before the stay begins.

Dogtown asks every overnight dog for Rabies, DHPP and Bordetella on file and a current city or town license, and for a Boston dog that means the City of Boston license. At the time of writing, the city's licensing page says dogs older than six months must be licensed before April 1 each year, at $15 for a spayed or neutered dog and $30 for an intact one, with a $50 fine for an unlicensed dog.

Boston asks for a copy of the current rabies certificate and proof of spay or neuter, and takes applications online, by mail or in person; Animal Care and Control is at 1010 Massachusetts Ave. Check the license against the stay dates. A booking that runs from late March into April crosses the renewal deadline, so renew in March. Massachusetts law also requires a commercial boarding or training kennel to keep license records for every dog it cares for.