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Dog Daycare | Bryan & College Station, TX

Doggie Daycare

The Pet Resort at Close Quarters is far from your average dog daycare. This is doggie daycare, where your pet spends their days interacting with peers and people, getting the attention they need and the play they desire so that they stay physically and emotionally healthy.

We provide a doggie daycare that gives your pet the well-rounded experience they deserve by meeting their own personal needs for Socialization, Physical Exercise, and Mental Stimulation. All you have to do is schedule an appointment at our convenient College Station, TX pet store!

SOCIALIZATION

Your dog will benefit greatly from an active social life, and our dog daycare is uniquely set up to provide them the right amount they need. Through directed play and free interaction, your dog’s confidence will grow and their emotional health will improve.

EXERCISE

Our dog daycare has ample space for romping around. We have both indoor and outdoor play areas that fulfill your dog’s need to be physical fit and their instinct to be part of the group. Our staff works one on one with your dog to direct their activity to meet their needs.

MENTAL STIMULATION

The mind of a dog is as complex as ours, stimulating your dog’s mind is just as important as engaging their body in physical activity. Bored dogs become unhappy dogs. That’s why we take great care to ensure our doggie daycare is geared towards engaging your dog’s mind and emotions throughout their entire stay.

Group Play

This is your dog’s opportunity to socialize and let out some energy as they play with their friends both indoors and outdoors in our large play environments. We design our Group Play based on size and/or play style of the dogs participating and group sizes are typically between 5-10 dogs.

Our staff members are thoroughly trained above industry standards and exhibit professional skills in group management, reading and reacting to dog body language and pet first aid. They are always carefully supervising our group interactions. 

Individual Play

Dog personalities are as varied as our own, therefore not every dog enjoys playing with a group of other dogs for long periods of time. Our dog daycare is built to accommodate dogs at any level. Our Enrichment Program ensures that your dog receives a variety of fun activities to stimulate their mind and body.

We want to ensure that your dog is as cared for as they need to be depending on their individual personality and health needs. Our Enrichment Program is flexible and may consist of running and playing fetch or a more relaxing cuddle time.

We believe that dog care should be exactly that – care for your dog. We invite you to go to work, run errands or vacation without the concern that your dog is simply passing time in a pet kennel. Know that your dog is safe, active and happy in the environment that you keep them in while you are gone. As dog owners and lovers ourselves, we know the value of that peace of mind. Contact
our pet resort today to learn more about our services! We are proud to serve pet owners throughout Bryan & College Station, TX.

As our dog daycare offers group play, we instill additional safety measures to ensure you are comfortable leaving your dog in our environment.

We require all dogs who attend daycare with us to:

• Have up to date rabies, distemper/parvo and bordetella vaccinations

• Be spayed or neutered

• Be at least one-year old

• Participate in an evaluation (Appointment required)

How to get started: Social Assessment

Each dog interested in becoming a member of our Play and Train Program is required to undergo a Social Assessment given by one of our Behavior Coaches. The assessment process is used to determine how social each dog is prior to being accepted into the program. 

Assessments are scheduled Monday-Thursday by appointment.

Bluebonnet Pet Ranch

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Boarding

Daycare

Howdy and Welcome to the Bluebonnet Pet Ranch!

We are a full service dog boarding and daycare facility in College Station,
TX.

We offer boarding and daycare that focuses on
group play time and letting dogs be dogs!

Come see us for your pet care needs, we can’t
wait to meet you!

Hours for Pick Up and Drop Off:

Monday-Friday: 7-9am and 4-6pm

Saturday: 8-10am and 4-6pm

Sunday: 4-6pm

Tours by Appointment

• What a wonderful Place. Our Winnie loves it here.

  
  
  







• Our puppy Ramen visits Bluebonnet regularly for both daycare and boarding and always has a blast! Robin and the rest of the staff are wonderful and take great care of her. Cannot recommend Bluebonnet enough.

  
  
  







• My girl loves going to play and board here! The staff is amazing and always loves on her. I just got her groomed here as well and they did a wonderful job!

  
  
  







• We have a 12 year old shiatsu that had never been around other dogs.  With she developed separation anxiety so we were to able to leave her home alone.  We tried Bluebonnet and she had done fantastic. The ppl there are awesome and take great care of her. Highly recommended.

  
  
  







• Cannot recommend this place enough. We were so nervous to leave our two rescue dogs, especially our more skittish baby, with anyone other than family but we are so happy we brought them to Bluebonnet! The staff is absolutely amazing and it’s so comforting to know that the dogs are in such great hands. They come home worn out, well socialized, and happy each time! We all love it!

  
  
  







• My guy has been there twice. He loves it and comes home exhausted.  I recommend this place.

  
  
  







• Great place for pets.  Owner and staff are very friendly.

  
  
  







• I was searching for a place to board my little man while I was out of town. I got a lot of recommendations from other dog owners at the dog park we go to in town so I decided to check it out. Abel loves it there! Everytime I’ve picked him up, he has been happy and exhausted from all the playing he gets to do there. I love taking him here because it’s like a vacation for him! Staff are so friendly and truly care about your pet!

  
  
  







• Milo our golden doodle had a great time today!!! He was a tired puppy when he got home. We will be coming back!!! The staff was very nice and informative we loved visiting with them.

  
  
  







• My puppers look forward to their playcare each week. Great exercise and healthy stimulation. They make new friends and I get to see pictures of their playtime.

  
  
  







• Ben is loving his new place, and we are glad to see him so relaxed and happy…the staff has been wonderful

  
  
  







• We feel so lucky to have found Bluebonnet. When we moved to the area, we were so worried about finding someone to watch our pups and weren’t sure how they would handle being boarded for the first time at 9 and 10 years old. They always take off running when we get there and don’t even look back! It’s really great to know that our babies are well taken care of and happy while we’re away and we can’t thank Robin and her amazing staff enough for that!

  
  
  







• First time we were leaving Lucy and I was nervous about leaving her. Robin and her crew were so kind and helped me to feel  better about leaving  her. Robin sent me pictures of Lucy and put my mind at ease
  
  I called Robin to check on Lucy and she got in touch with me quickly. I would highly recommend Bluebonnet Pet Ranch.

  
  
  







• Our 3 dogs love Bluebonnet Pet Ranch! We know they are in excellent hands there. Top notch!! Highly recommend!!

  
  
  







• My dogs love to go here. They always take good care of my boys! They really care and make sure my dogs have plenty of exercise and love! ❤️

  
  
  







• They have been great! I have been taking my dog weekly for over a year. They update me on how her day was and of any concerns.

  
  
  







• Great people, very nice facility, knowledgeable and love dogs.  What’s not to like?

  
  
  







• Our lab mix dog, Scout, loves going to ‘play with his friends’ at daycare. And always comes home exhausted. 🙂 We recently boarded him for a few days when we went out of town (our first leaving him instead of with family) and even though we were nervous-Scout loved it. Being able to see pictures every day of him having fun, put our minds at ease. Another service provided is training. We have used other local places for training and in only a short month, Scout learned more and has continued to excel in all he learned. To us, that is Priceless training! Highly recommend ALL services at Bluebonnet Pet Ranch!

  
  
  







• Cooper loved coming here! He had a daycare visit and came back home a tired, happy pup. Will be coming back soon!

  
  
  







• Hands down best doggie day care in town!

  
  
  







• Our pups, Maple and Millie,  have so much fun when at Bluebonnet Pet Ranch!  Even better-they are getting training and the results are AMAZING!   It has been so helpful to our family to see them learn and then also for us humans to be taught how to react, direct and train them to be well mannered and friendly pups.  We are in awe at their behavior after one week at Bluebonnet and are excited for them to keep learning- and the humans too!    🐶🐶❤️❤️

  
  
  







• Wonderful care and service!  I highly recommend Bluebonnet Pet Ranch! Daycare, training and boarding!!

  
  
  







• My dog loves going to Bluebonnet Pet Ranch, and I’m highly impressed by their levels of care and organization. They treat both you and your dog like family! ❤️ I cannot say enough good things about them!

  
  
  

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Interview: Natalia Pakhotina – Russian Cultural Center

– Tell your story in America. Where did you study and work before Texas? Was Texas your choice, or was it a coincidence?

I came to the USA from Siberia, from Novosibirsk Academgorodok, both my husband and I graduated from Novosibirsk State University, however, in different specialties: I am an economist, and he is a physicist. Together they decided to continue their studies in the USA for a doctoral degree. Getting into one university wasn’t easy, but fortunately we were both accepted at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Texas was not a conscious choice, it so happened that my husband was offered a job at Texas A&M University (TAMU), and we moved to College Station (College Station), a year later I also got a job at the university, so we stayed in Texas.

– Please tell us about your work. Which of your projects stand out the most and why?

It will soon be 10 years since I have been a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at TAMU. I love my job: it is creative, it always makes me develop and grow professionally, master new technologies, and this year I suddenly had to master video editing. I also like the fact that teachers have a freer schedule than in other professions, long vacations for the new year and summer. Not to say that there are projects in the teaching work, we rather have semesters and courses. I remember how scary it was for the first time to go to a class where 250 students were sitting in the audience at once. But then, on the contrary, it became more comfortable when there are a lot of students, and if the hall is half full, then something seems to be missing. It is remembered when the semester went well, there was good contact with students, when at the end of the semester they come to you to shake hands and say thank you. For one year, I tried to organize the Study Abroad program – to take American students to Russia in the summer, I planned to show them Moscow and St. Petersburg. For the program to be approved, 10 students had to be recruited. Just before the spring break, there were just 10 people, the program was approved, and then during the holidays one student changed his mind and everything was suddenly canceled. It was a shame, since then I haven’t tried it anymore, but maybe someday in the future it will be possible to implement this project.

What do you like most about Texas?

We haven’t lived anywhere but the south of the USA, so it’s hard for me to compare. I love the Texas fall, winter, and spring – the fact that most of the year you can leave the house without wearing warm clothes. Spring flowering in the fields. That you can at least every day cook food on the street on the grill. I like many economic factors: relatively low prices, a good labor market. We enjoy going to local events like Brazos Valley Fair and Rodeo, TAMU Physics Festival. It is very nice that people, organizations and the city always try to organize family events.

– What traditions and habits have you retained from your pre-Texan life?

We always cook soups at home (borscht is our favorite) and pancakes, and for the holidays we make Olivier and other Russian salads. We continue according to the Russian tradition to celebrate the New Year more than Christmas. We want our children to know and love the snowy winter, for this, from the age of 3 we take them regularly to the skating rink, and in winter we try to go “to the snow”. True, it didn’t work out this year, but snow itself came to us in Texas, a lot of snow fell, so the children even built a snow fort in front of the house.

– How are your relations with your homeland? Do you miss any aspects of life at home?

Yes, I miss you very much, I am always drawn to Russia, I try to keep in touch with my friends who stayed there. But I don’t follow the news, I usually learn about everything from friends and relatives. I travel to Russia with great joy, I miss the change of seasons, golden autumn and snowy winter, my hometown, friends and parents. There is not enough cultural life in a big city, we live here in a small city, there are not enough theaters, museums, a center where you can walk around.

– Please tell us about your family.

Our family is friendly: me, my husband and three daughters. Home is always fun and there is something to do. It will soon be 20 years since my husband and I have been together. The older daughters are twins, they are 10 years old, and the younger one is 8.

– What do you do outside of work? What are your interests and hobbies?

I love to travel! Sometimes I draw, in the past I regularly practiced yoga, skated, now I suddenly took up tennis. I love watching movies and reading books, baking cakes, playing board games, going to the Escape Room with my friends.

– What else would you like to tell us about yourself?

Our family loves to travel, we try to go somewhere whenever possible. Last year we were in Montenegro and Russia, in the winter we often go to Vermont, this year we went to Colorado in the summer, and in the fall we went closer – to Lake Travis. We are strongly connected with Austin, as my husband has been working at General Motors in the north of Austin in recent years, and three years ago we seriously considered moving, then it did not work out, but who knows, maybe in the future we will still become residents of your wonderful city!

– How do you participate in the life of the Russian-speaking community in Texas?

Most of all, I am involved in organizing children’s events. College Station, unlike Austin, is a small city and does not have its own Russian school, so if we want to attend some Russian-language events for children, then the parents themselves need to organize everything. For five or six years now, my friends and I have been holding a New Year’s party for children with fairy-tale characters, Santa Claus, gifts, contests in Russian. We have a Russian-speaking children’s theater, also completely amateur, under the guidance of parents. We ourselves are directors, and producers, and make-up artists, and sound engineers, and stage workers. They staged musical performances “New Year’s Adventures of Masha and Vitya” and “Mama”, and last year they swung at Pinocchio, and, despite the coronavirus and a break in rehearsals for six months, they nevertheless recently staged a performance in a street amphitheater.

Photo: Inna Krieger

But we are also actively involved in other events: we organize barbecues in the park, celebrate Maslenitsa, play “What? Where? When?” in the art gallery Degallery.

– What events do you remember the most?

All our children’s performances left vivid memories. Individual meetings are remembered. For example, how they saw off friends who were leaving the city for good, or how last year a huge Russian-speaking company gathered in the park for barbecue just shortly before everything closed due to a pandemic and it became impossible to meet with a large company.

What are your favorite books and movies?

Different books at different ages. As a child, for example, I adored “The Headless Horseman” by Mine Reed, the book takes place in Texas and then it seemed so exotic, who would have thought that then I would live here! In her youth, she was very fond of Eco, Fowles, Maugham, Bulgakov, Strugatsky, Khmelevskaya. Then my husband got me into fantasy and sci-fi, I was one of George R.R.R. Martin’s early A Song of Ice and Fire fans long before the series, and even met him when he came to AggieCon at College Station in 2013. By the way, it was our library at TAMU that he chose as the official repository of his correspondence, manuscripts and books. Now I’m mostly reading children’s books again – the circle is complete. I often don’t have enough time and energy to read for myself, but sometimes it happens that I still read something new. In recent years, Kurt Vonnegut has made the biggest impression on me. Not to say that this is a pleasant read, but it makes you think, and he knows how to surprise with unexpected plot twists. From the fascinating reading recently, I liked Expanse (by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), at first I liked the series, so I wanted to read the book as well.

I also like a variety of films. Every New Year, for example, we always watch a musical comedy from childhood – “Magicians”. I really love the old Soviet adaptation of Maugham’s Theater with Viya Artmane, Sherlock Holmes with Livanov and Solomin, Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, in my opinion, everything came together perfectly in these films: actors, script, directing, music. From romantic comedies, I like Bridget Jones’s Diary the most (and the book, by the way, too), from recent films – I won’t be original – I liked the mini-series Queen’s Gambit.

– What would you like to wish the Russian-speaking residents of Austin and Texas?

Health, prosperity, do not forget the Russian language and culture and continue to keep Austin weird!

Contact information:

TAMU personal page: https://econ.tamu.edu/nataliya-pakhotina

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliya-pakhotina

90 002 Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nataliya.pakhotina

Email: [email protected]

Interviewed by: Dmitry Ovcharenko

Editor: Olga Falkovsky

Publisher: Russian Cultural Center 900 09