This review is for Labradoodle Grooming. Nice, clean facility. Friendly receptionists. Horrible grooming and haircut with Morgan. I brought in a super-cute fluffy labradoodle and asked for just a trim, since his hair grew way too long. Morgan assured me that she understood what I wanted. Then she grabbed the leash and fairly rudely proceeded to pull the dog towards the doors. It was Ozzy's first time there and naturally he was hesitant and scared. Morgan showed no compassion or understanding of dog's fear and if I did not at least follow her to the door, would have probably tore his head off his body. When several hours later I came back to pick him up, Ozzy's hair was down to like 1.5" from may be 5". Morgan told me that she used the longest trim attachment she had. I would have expected to be told ahead of time that due to lack of longer attachments Affectionate Pet Care would be incapable of satisfying my specific request and suggested that I look for a different grooming company. Our previous groomer did a fantastic job at leaving Ozzy's hair perfect length and had all sort of attachments. The only problem was their location, but given my experience with APC - I am willing to do whatever it takes to figure out ways of getting Ozzy back to the original groomer. read more

The thing that bothered me about ADDO was the lack of outdoor space in which my pups could romp. Affectionate solved that--and is SO careful about escape artists they buzz you in and don't have any gates in their external play spaces. We've now had our two newest babies three weeks, and Friday, took them with Natasha (who's an old pro here) to be approved for daycare. Even the 9-week-old, who is shy when meeting other people and dogs, came out of her shell and thoroughly enjoyed herself with the caring, gentle team in place at Affectionate. We have to go back to Milwaukee for a wedding later this week, so have now booked all three for a 4-day, cage free holiday with play dates. I'm convinced they will not only enjoy themselves (since there are carers there overnight, too), but come home happy and healthy... and tired enough to let us sleep through the night after what is likely to be a hectic visit to our old home. read more

absolutely wonderful. cage free, great caretakers, reasonable priced. very responsive staff. they even posted pictures of our dog on facebook when we asked so we could see him having fun while we were away. read more

I have been using Affectionate Pet Care for almost two years now and love it! For 12 hours the price is right and my mutt comes back happy and exhausted! I have also been in three of their classes (Agility, Rally Obedience, and Pet Therapy) and have loved every single one. Agility is a good way to exercise your dog for an hour at night! Rally Obedience helped me teach my dog new obedience commands. And the Pet Therapy class prepared us for the national test that we just took and passed. Class sizes are kept to about five dogs which is the perfect size for Sara (the amazing instructor) to provide personalized feedback. read more

I take my English Bulldog to APC for day care once a week and love it. The people are great and she always comes home very tired. I wish they posted more pictures or had cameras but other than that, I am very pleased with the daycare services. My pup will be going there for boarding in a few weeks so I'm hoping she has a great time like she does in day care! read more

We've taken our "Buzz" here regularly for daycare since he was a young pup. He's now eighteen months old. He loves APC, and so do we. Believe the other reviews here. These folks and their facility are the best! We are heartbroken APC is moving to a new facility on the other side of Fairfax, and it won't be close enough for us anymore except for special occasions worthy of the extra travel during commute times. read more

Still very pleased with the staff and service - the groomers have done good job, sometimes just send my dog in for a bath and he comes back fluffy with shiny fur, and have recently taken a dog obedience class there which went really well. I highly recommend them if you need somewhere to board your dog. read more

Our pup frequents Affectionate Pet Care weekly and we have been very pleased with them. We use them for daycare, boarding and training. Sara S. is our favorite trainer there (5 stars for her!!). She has a great energy/aura about her and I admire how dogs respond to her so positively. Our pup gets SOO excited when he sees her. We have highly recommended her to friends with dogs in the area that want to work on manners, agility or other training needs! Your pups will love her! :) read more

We are frequent users of Affectionate Pet Care and have been very pleased with their care and service. We have been using the dog trainer service at Affectionate Pet Care with Sara Spevacek and we can't be more pleased. She has identified traits and talents in each of our dogs. This weekend she showed one of them in her first rally and qualified both days. She has an incredible work ethic and natural talent with the dogs and they respond so positivity with her. We recommend her as a five star trainer. She will bring out the best in your dog. read more

We have two standard poodles who are almost 2 years old. We use APC for boarding, training, and grooming. The staff is all great. They are very caring and love the dogs. Stephanie is our groomer. She has groomed our poodles since they were young puppies, and they love her. We drop them off in the late morning, they play for a while, and when we pick them up at the end of the day, they are groomed beautifully. They do tire out when they are at APC since they love to play and run, which they can do in the large yard and rooms at APC. Last time Stephanie groomed them at the end of a few days that they were boarded, and one of the poodles started falling asleep while being groomed - they are that comfortable with her. read more

Great in every respect....but I wish they had cameras. I'm not concerned about how they're treating my dog or security issues, but I'd love to watch how my dog interacts with other dogs when I'm not around. The place definitely smells like dogs, but that indicates to me that they are exerting themselves and adding to that smell. When we pick up our dog even after one overnight, she is completely wiped for at least a day or two. The report card is ridiculous....it tells me which dogs my dog played with during her stay. I'm not sure how the fact that she played with "Chuckles" the Chihuahua or "Boner" the St. Bernard has any bearing on my decision to use their services again. Pictures or videos of my dog playing would be more useful. Regardless, I trust this place, which is my number one reason for leaving my dog here. If you research all of the doggy daycare locations in the area, you'll see they fall in the middle of pricing across all similar facilities. Would definitely recommend this location. read more

We have taken our two dogs (Bichon Frise/Shih-Tzu mix and Mini Poodle) to be groomed by Stephanie for close to 10 years and are beyond happy with our experience. "Happy" is really an understatement. Our dogs always come out of APC looking fantastic and one of the things we appreciate the most about Stephanie is that she truly seems to care about them. She takes her time with them and will let us know if she thinks one of them may have an issue that should be seen by a vet. She recently noticed that one our dogs' eyes didn't look right and sure enough, he had an infection. When that same dog seemed to have issues with flaky skin, she suggested to us some products to use, even a change in diet, and since then, it's greatly improved. Furthermore, one of our dogs may not be the easiest to groom, but Stephanie is always patient with him and is able to keep him calm. We originally went to APC when we lived in Fairfax City, we then moved to DC almost seven years ago and we still make the drive out for grooming because Stephanie is worth it. I really can't say enough good things about Stephanie, she really is great and without her, our dogs would look crazy! read more

This is the BEST place to board your pet if you're going on a lengthy trip. They don't use kennels at all (unless you request it to continue crate training) and all of the dogs get to play and sleep together. The staff is super nice and obviously love what they do. My dog was clean (they offer grooming services too) and happy when we picked her up after a week. read more

3 people in each dog room. Large outdoor areas. dogs spend half the day outside in the huge backyard play areas. no cages. pack sleeping. 24 hour superivisoin read more

I have been using Morgan to groom my Yorkie since 2010. I used a few groomers before her and was very unhappy to the point that I was in tears as to how they groomed my little guy. Morgan is FANTASTIC!!! I would follow her any where to groom my baby. I have never worried or stressed out about leaving my dog with her to be groomed as I know he will look beautiful when I come to pick him up. I have the utmost confidence in Morgan's skills and abilities and would not use any other groomer to groom my dog. She is very talented and genuinely cares about animals and does the most professional job in grooming dogs. She definitely knows what she is doing and does it very well!!! SHE IS THE BEST!!!!! read more

Ive never wrote a review on Yelp and never thought I would need to. Well here I am. My experience with this dog facility went as followed. I had to leave town for 3 days and needed to find a dog care location for my 3 year old Mantle Great Dane. A little about him. He is the typical goofy, playful but most importantly, very Gentle and sweet, extremely and somewhat submissive, he is not an Alpha dog by any means but he is MY dog and I care for him greatly. Arrangements were made with this place that I would drop him off on Friday and pick him up on Sunday. I dropped him off on Friday as scheduled. Saturday I get a phone call from a staff member telling me that my dog has some minor scratches on his under belly from rough play, but nothing serious and no broken skin. I take her word for it and thank her for the call. Im concerned but again taking her word for it. Sunday approaches and I make my way to pick up my dog. My dog's entire underbelly from his mid-section back was completely red with scratches due to 3 other dogs that wanted to constantly mount my dog, which I was informed of by the caretaker that brought him out. At what point as a "dog CARETAKER" do you step in and either separate MY dog from these dogs or correct the behavior?? Clearly their was no human pack leaders present which led the dogs to create their own pack order. There should have been ONE pack leader and that was the caretaker. When I got home from work today(Monday), I took my dog out for his afternoon walk and I notice on his upper back and sides of his body these weird looking lines throughout his black fur, and were patterned in parallel lines going front to back. I counted about 10-12 different lines over his upper body. I stopped him and lifted up the fur and these effing lines were scabbed over scratch wounds! broken skin scratches..... I get home and call this "dog facility" and ask for the Manager. I get Greg the evening shift manager. I explain to him everything that I am explaining here and his response was "I remember 3 dogs that seemed to want to target your dog for some reason"..... That "some reason" is that they saw him as being weaker than them! Alphas and Beta canines pick on the submissive dogs in the pack! I didn't hire you Affectionate Pet Care so you could allow my dog to be ganged up on, I didn't hire you so you could force my dog to fend for himself from being harassed by these three dogs, I hired you to take care of him which you did not. Im not sure if this was an over-booking issue and not enough staff being present to stop this or if this was just pure negligence but either way, this being my first and last experience with this place I am pissed. Look elsewhere for boarding. read more

We've taken our dog here for a few years now and they have definitely gone down hill. We liked the cage free option and have used them for boarding a few days at time. Out of 4 times we have been there, our dog has returned injured twice. The first time they had slammed the dog's tail in the door. The injury was minor, but it took us weeks and weeks to get it to heal, being the tail and all. The next few times were OK, but this last time, our dog was seriously injured. They waited an entire 24 hours to call us and tell us that he was having problems; we instructed them to get the dog to their affiliated vet (who tried to talk us into several expensive and unnecessary tests over the phone). We declined the tests, collected the dog who had significant trouble moving on his own, and took him to our own vet immediately. The resort denied knowing anything at first, claiming the dog 'just woke up' in the shape he was in (severe edema and bruising). After our vet diagnosed the issue were the result of an injury, it took me several phone calls to get to an answer. I will say that they at least confessed to what had happened, but I will never, ever leave my pet there again, and I would advise anyone to think twice. They just do not pay enough attention to the animals to prevent stupid and potentially dangerous mistakes from happening. read more

We boarded our dog with them for 10 days and I was very unhappy with the condition my dog was in when I picked her up. She was filthy, matted and had ticks on her nose when I brought her home. They did call when they noticed she had an ear infection and was taken to the vet. The vet did write on the return orders that the dog needed to be bathed asap but they apparently did not notice this and therefore was not bathed. She also I believe was bitten on her ear where there was a red mark and some thickness. I did visit before hand but apparently can't judge a book by its cover. She also got an extreme case of pancreatitis the Tues afterwords may have been caused by the stress per vet. My husband picked her up and he was not given any report on her just handed him the bag of food that was left and said here she is. There were written reports in the bag but not really anything of substance. I did not find the staff friendly and certainly have been in better boarding centers by far. Will not return and would not recommend. read more

My 75 pound mixed breed male spent two nights at Affectionate Pet Care this week. He returned home yesterday afternoon and has had the dry heeves and refused to eat or drink since. We took him to our vet this morning and spent $230.00 for various medications - antibiotics, antinausea, etc. The vet wasn't 100 percent sure of the cause but she suspects some type of infection. Did I mention that Bear was perfectly fine when I dropped him off there? Affectionate says be was fine while there, eating and drinking without problem. They forgot to fill out a report card so there's no real documentation of what went on while he was there. I hope that Bear doesn't have to spend the might the emergency vet tonight because that costs a ton of money. Who knows what went on during Bear's stay at APC but I've come to the decision that spending extended hours in close quarters with multiple dogs that you're not filiar with. read more