Dawn’s Pet Care Services

06/26/2025

I’m so proud to be a co-chair for this amazing event!! Please check out Marty’s Place Senior Dog Sanctury.. They are receiving our Beacon of Light Award!! If you have never been to the beacon of excellence award dinner come on out and learn more about 10 great organizations, people and businesses in the Monmouth County area that are just doing amazing things.

🏆 2025 Beacon of Excellence Honoree 🏆
Beacon of Light Award:
Marty's Place Senior Dog Sanctuary

The Monmouth Regional Chamber of Commerce proudly congratulates Marty's Place Senior Dog Sanctuary on being selected as the 2025 recipient of the Beacon of Light Award!

Marty’s Place Senior Dog Sanctuary is dedicated to enhancing the lives of senior dogs, ensuring that older dogs whose owners can no longer care for them have a loving home for life. Dogs live out their golden years at the sanctuary, or, whenever possible, in loving adoptive or lifelong foster homes. Since 2015, Marty’s Place has saved over 200 dogs.

Residents aged seven years and older receive physical comfort and emotional care in a safe, protected environment. Dogs benefit from generous living spaces, human and canine companionship, consistent veterinary care, and access to physically and mentally stimulating activities—such as an indoor pool and underwater treadmill—tailored to their age and abilities. Dedicated volunteers support the sanctuary daily, helping to fulfill its mission.

Marty’s Place's water therapy program has served thousands of canine clients of all ages, addressing a variety of health needs and medical issues.

While the core mission of Marty’s Place is saving senior dogs' lives, the sanctuary equally impacts human lives every day. Its Senior Pet Assistance program provides financial support to senior citizens caring for their senior dogs, many of whom live on fixed incomes without savings. Over 200 individuals have benefited from this program, enabling them to keep their beloved pets at home with an improved quality of life.

Additionally, Marty’s Place offers the Seniors for Seniors program, an enriching initiative that brings senior citizens together with senior dogs at the sanctuary or at participating facilities. These interactions provide meaningful, heartfelt connections benefiting both the dogs and the people involved.

🔗Learn more about their organization: martysplace.org
🔗 Register Here: bit.ly/MRCC2025BEACON

06/25/2025

Very good read!!

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.
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06/14/2025

I have to say there was nothing in the last year so that made me prouder when it came to my business then placing in the top three best boarding and daycare facilities in Monmouth County

So to all of my clients future clients and friends who voted for me, I say thank you, and hey, let’s try to do it again !!!

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06/07/2025

Very quiet day at Dawn’s Pet Care Services. Snoopy is my only guest.. He has figured out how to take the easy way out of his bully stick and wedged it in between two couch cushions so he doesn’t even have to hold it. Work smarter, not harder is Snoopy’s thought of the day.

06/05/2025

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06/03/2025

06/03/2025

Not only do we walk your furbabies or let them out in the yard, we also get the pleasure of comfy couch snuggles !!!!

06/01/2025

Winston came to stay for a week! He came in a very anxious pup, shy away from touch and not being very interactive. Within the first two days, he was running around playing hanging out on the couch to get belly rubs and hopping up on the bed so I can’t get any work done lol but then again I’m always at work and I love it.!!!

05/25/2025

I truly do have the best job in the world. And I’m so appreciative of all the trust my fur families have put in me to take care of their babies. A few pics from my memorial day weekend so far surrounded by love and hugs and kisses from my furry friends.!!!!

05/18/2025

Come on down and support a local veteran.. She fought for our country, time to help her fight cancer !! 2-6. $20 donation, food and a drink ticket. Basket raffles and a 50/50 too!!

02/19/2025

Honoring your furbaby by donating to a local rescue is the best way to honor their memory besides giving another furbaby in need a place in your home.

Thank you for your donation in honor of Runt. 💗

02/12/2025

For the next time somebody says your prices are too high, remember all of the work you have put in and all of the dedication you bring. 💪

We all know it’s not all puppy cuddles and kitty kisses! Pricing is difficult, not exactly a linear process, and is something we have to approach from our own viewpoint and background.

You are worth it! ✨