Rock Creek Critter Care

12/26/2024

This little lady is looking for a new home for the new year. It does not sound like she is spayed either. I don't personally know this dog, just hoping to find her a new home. Located in Rush City.

12/25/2024

🎅 Merry Christmas!🎄
Santa Claus and Santa Paws both made a stop at our house last night!

12/18/2024

This 1st Pic is my life...there were 3 other ppl in the house when this was taken 🤣 yet they ALL think they need to follow me everywhere!
Kitty, Doug, Boomer, Riggs, Stu, Lucy, Millie, Riley, and R***r

12/11/2024

A Chance and Rascal playdate while their awesome mom went to rescue a downed swan! Passionate Pines Wildlife Rehabilitation

12/09/2024

Lainey and her gorgeous eyelashes 😍
Some lazy pups-Lainey, Kitty, and Artie
Chance helping with puzzles
Drop-ins for Kitten
And a few of the Thanksgiving crew- Delta, Lulu, and Nova.

12/03/2024

Drop-ins for Benny (and his camera shy housemate Shiloh) this weekend and it has given me a great opportunity to share a story for getting a drop-in person for your home even if you don't have pets. At my Friday afternoon visit all was normal but for my Saturday afternoon stop it was so cold in the house. I realized the batteries had died in the thermostat so as soon as I swapped in some new batteries the furnace started right up and the thermometer read 49° 🥶 Who knows how cold it would have been in there by the time the owner returned Sunday evening.
It's a good idea to always have someone checking on your home or at the very least get a thermometer that links to your phone so you can check it from a far now that we are going into winter!

12/01/2024

There are no changes to the pet care agreements for 2025. As clients come for their 2025 bookings you will be asked to look over your 2024 agreement, make any necessary changes, and resign and date them.
We look forward to seeing you all in 2025! 😀

11/27/2024

Delta, Earl, Maizy, Gaea came to stay and Ziggy did some errands running with me.

11/20/2024

Check out a new homestyle dog boarding option for our area! Now located in Rush City!

Are you going somewhere and can’t bring your dog(s), but don’t know where to send them?

Here at Mack’s Pack we offer in home dog boarding! Yep that’s right you can send your dog(s) to come stay with us and they won’t be left alone through the night.

If you or anyone you know are looking for an In home boarding facility, please send me a message to get them on the schedule, spots fill up fast 😁🐶

Mack’s Pack
651-357-7631
Rush City, MN

11/20/2024

The last weeks worth of pups...Marlee, Morgan, Maizy, Kitty, Doug, Lainey, and Rufio the cat.

11/12/2024

Kitty and Keys being all adorable. Toby with his huntin' dog, Loki....and some randoms of Chili, Murray, Ziggy, Lainey, Lucy, Stu, and Louis. I missed getting a pic of Mayhem 🙁 ,Murray's housemate, so just picture a big white sassy ball of fur 🥰

11/05/2024

Not pet related but......In search of a female or male interested in doing 4 hrs of PCA/homemaker work each week for an 88 yr old lady, taking her to the library, Walmart, welia, and other errands and minimal household chores. No personal cares are involved, wage is $19/hr (I think) and billing is done through Mains'l. If you or someone know you is interested and reliable with a current drivers license let me know!

11/02/2024

A couple weeks worth of dogs...Luna, Lainey, Rosie, Keys, Kitty, Doug, and new pup Stevie the bulldog. You know it's hockey season when Kitty is here every weekend 🏒
Added an extra Pic of the deer that were in the yard tonight, so neat to see and the littlest dog lover turned 8 yesterday!

10/27/2024

This 👇 born and breed to do it. Give them the ability to work off that steam, use their brains, use their bodies, and be dogs!

Everyone who is thinking of getting dogs should read this because you need to understand this reality:

***I am a 21st century dog.***
-I'm a Malinois.
Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work.
But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.

-I am an Akita Inu.
My ancestors were selected for fighting bears.
Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.

-I am a Beagle.
When I chase my prey, I raise my voice so the hunters could follow.
Today they put an electric collar on me to shut up, and you make me come back to you - no running - with a snap of your fingers.

-I am a Yorkshire Terrier.
I was a terrifying rat hunter in English mines.
Today they think I can't use my legs and they always hold me in their arms.

-I'm a Labrador Retriever.
My vision of happiness is a dive into a pond to bring back the duck he shot to my master.
Today you forget I'm a walking, running, swimming dog; as a result I'm fat, made to stay indoors, and to babysit.

-I am a Jack Russell.
I can take on a fox, a mean badger, and a rat bigger than me in his den.
Today I get scolded for my character and high energy, and forced to turn into a quiet living room dog.

-I am a Siberian Husky.
Experienced the great, wide open spaces of Northern Europe, where I could drag sleds for long distances at impressive speeds.
Today I only have the walls of the house or small garden as a horizon, and the holes I dig in the ground just to release energy and frustration, trying to stay sane.

-I am a border collie
I was made to work hours a day in partnershipwith my master, and I am an unmistakable artist of working with the herd.
Today they are mad at me because, for lack of sheep, I try to check bikes, cars, children in the house and everything in motion.

I am ...
I am a 21st century dog.
I'm pretty, I'm alert, I'm obedient, I stay in a bag...but I'm also an individual who, from centuries of training, needs to express my instincts, and I am *not* suited for the sedentary life you'd want me to lead.
Spending eight hours a day alone in the house or in the garden - with no work and no one to play or run with, seeing you for a short time in the evening when you get home, and only getting a small toilet walk will make me deeply unhappy.
I'll express it by barking all day, turning your yard into a minefield, doing my needs indoors, being unmanageable the rare times I'll find myself outside, and sometimes spending my days sunk, sad, lonely, and depressed, on my pillow.
You may think that I should be happy to be able to enjoy all this comfort while you go to work, but actually I’ll be exhausted and frustrated, because this is absolutely NOT what I'm meant to do, or what I need to be doing.
If you love me, if you've always dreamed of me, if my beautiful blue eyes or my athletic look make you want me, but you can't give me a real dog's life, a life that's really worth living according to my breed, and if you can't offer me the job that my genes are asking, DO NOT buy or adopt me!
If you like the way I look but aren't willing to accept my temperament, gifts, and traits derived from long genetic selection, and you think you can change them with only your good will, then DO NOT BUY OR ADOPT ME.
I’m a dog from the 21st century, yes, but deep inside me, the one who fought, the one who hunted, the one who pulled sleds, the one who guided and protected a herd still lives within.
So think **very** carefully before you choose your dog. And think about getting two, rather than one, so I won't be so very lonely waiting for you all day. Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.

10/23/2024

Ziggy, Chase, Emma, Boomer, Kitty, Doug, and Momo....Kitty and Doug have been here more weekends than not lately, thankfully they are great friends. They'll be back again this coming weekend too.

10/19/2024

We ran away for a little 4 wheeler time...Gilbert and Silver Bay...if you look close there is a coyote watching from the rocks in the last photo...back to the pup watching soon!

10/14/2024

Pups from the last week or so...walks for Ziggy, drop-ins for Millie, Riley, Stu, and Lucy and the furballs who took over my house Max, Angel, Kitty, Chase, Sharley, Doug, and Lainey.

10/07/2024

Photo dump of Angel, Sharley, Maizy, Lainey, Kitty, Millie, and Riley