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    Dog Boarding Kennel in Colorado Springs, CO

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    Are you looking for a Boarding Kennel for your dog in Colorado Springs, CO? Colorado Dog Daycare, Dog Boarding Kennels, Grooming, & Outfitting Experience the Ivy League Treat your four-legged co-ed to a social experience of a lifetime. Canine Campus is a pioneer in the world of dog daycare and overnight boarding, open since 1999. Even today, we continue to lead the animal industry with our doggie play group games, all-day activities and our in-house training programs for our faculty members. To top things off, your pooch will never be unsupervised on a Canine Campus playground. We do more than just "watch" the dogs all day. Canine Campus offers a unique type of K-9 daycare experience. Our faculty specializes in actually interacting with your pooch all day long -- something rarely found in the dog boarding kennels industry. You will find nothing but true dog-lovers at a Canine Campus, from the dog grooming faculty and dog training professors on the play fields to the founders of the entire franchise. Dogs are not just pets to us…they are true members of our families; something only true dog-people would understand. We invite you to tour any of our national campuses anytime. We love surprise visits from our prospective parents (owners)! You will find more than just a typical mom-and-pop dog daycare shop. Instead, you will find hometown customer service complete with national franchise standards. It’s a combination you won’t find at any of the other dog boarding kennels in the world

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    About this store:

    Canine Campus Franchise Founders, Tom Hilfers and Joelle Audette, were lucky enough to pick Saede Mae as their very first canine kid.

    The following are excerpts from a letter Joelle wrote after they lost Saede Mae to bone cancer in 2003:

    Saede Mae Hilfers was born on September 22, 1997. Her mommy weighed in at 170 pounds, her daddy was a whopping 210 pounds. Saede only hit about 150 pounds at her max weight, probably from playing so much at the daycare. She had a very "strong" personality....o.k., she was a Piece of Work! But I loved her, of course. Saede Mae was a one-of-a-kind!

    Saede was a Daddy's Girl... she and Tom were virtually inseparable. In fact, Tom slept with her every night the last few months of her short life. She never really did like our kids -- she came first, so she always thought of herself as "alpha" to them, no matter what we tried.

    Saede went through basic obedience training, and I remember one night at class (I took her through to try to establish my Alpha with her) she let me "work her" for about 30 minutes, then she laid down in the middle of the class and wouldn't get up the rest of the hour. She even growled at me when I tried to get her up (told ya she had a mind of her own!).

    I will never forget driving my car behind Tom in his truck, with Saede sitting right next to him on the front seat. It was very cute -- she looked human, and even bigger than Tom, sitting next to him. Tom took her just about everywhere with him in that truck.Of course, she wouldn't get into it herself; she would put her big front paws on the seat and look back like, "I need help!"

    Tom would scoop up her heavy backside and lift her into his truck. I, however, know she could have EASILY jumped in on her own. I saw her one time clear a 4-foot gate at the vet hospital. She got loose from the vet techs in the back (when she was there for a check-up) and ran through the long hallways like a maniac until she found the front door!

    Much to our horror, she was diagnosed with bone cancer in November, 2002. Doctors told us she had about 3 months to live.We visited the amputation option, chemotherapy, and other treatments, but decided she was too proud to go out without her whole body.

    The bone cancer was actually first detected by one of our employees on the daycare playground because she was limping. Tom rushed Saede to the vet that day -- we both thought for sure it was another hip or knee problem (she had already had knee replacement surgery). We were wrong.

    Saede told us the day she was ready to die... the look on her gentle, giant face said it all. She was more concerned about us (mostly Tom), than she was about leaving us. That Sunday during Labor Day weekend of 2003 was one of the worst days of my life... Tom and I held her as she slipped off to eternal sleep. God rest her big soul.

    We will meet again in Heaven, big girl!

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