The Dog Company

The Dog Company The Only Adventure Company on the shore! We offer Dog Training, DayCare, Boarding & Adventures!

Back 2 School Pictures! 📚🐾Class is in session! Next week spirit week fun continues. Tuesday - Dolly Paw-ton DayWednesday...
09/04/2026

Back 2 School Pictures! 📚🐾

Class is in session! Next week spirit week fun continues.
Tuesday - Dolly Paw-ton Day
Wednesday - Wacky Wednesday
Thursday - Senior skip day
Friday - Prom!!!

The weather could not have been more perfect for our beach adventure yesterday with these awesome pups 🏖️
09/03/2026

The weather could not have been more perfect for our beach adventure yesterday with these awesome pups 🏖️

09/01/2026

People see the rescue photos. The adoption posts. The freshly bathed dogs. The success stories.

What you don’t see is what it takes to get them there.

There is a side of animal welfare that most people will thankfully never experience firsthand.

Animal control officers, shelter employees, vet techs, rescue workers, volunteers, fosters and dog trainers routinely walk into situations that are physically exhausting and emotionally devastating, and then are expected to walk back out and continue their day like normal.

They handle animals covered in f***s, urine, fleas and infection. They see starvation and neglect. They smell things they can’t forget. They handle terrified animals who have never learned that people can be safe. They get bitten, scratched, peed on, s**t on and completely exhausted.

They wash dogs once. Twice. Three times. Sometimes four times, and the water is still brown.

They spend hours catching animals that are terrified of human contact. They hold them for exams. Treat wounds. Clean ears. Cut nails that have grown into feet. Pick fleas off bodies that don’t have enough weight on them to begin with.

And then the physical work ends and the emotional work starts.

Because somebody has to teach that dog how to be a dog again.

Somebody has to foster it. Feed it. Medicate it. Train it. Sit quietly beside it until it realizes a hand reaching toward it isn’t going to hurt. Somebody has to worry about it at 2 a.m. Somebody has to make the hard decisions. Somebody has to carry the ones that couldn’t be saved.

And somehow, the people who do this work are supposed to absorb all of that and be ready for the next one.

So this is just a reminder:

Before you criticize animal control, a shelter worker, a rescue, a foster, a vet tech, a volunteer or a trainer because you think something should have been handled differently, understand that you are probably seeing about 5% of the story.

You don’t know what they’ve walked into.

You don’t know what they’ve already seen that day.

You don’t know what they’re carrying home with them.

And you certainly don’t know how physically and emotionally demanding it is to keep showing up for animals who desperately need somebody to.

Give the people doing this work some grace.

And most importantly, if you see something, say something.

If an animal looks neglected, starving, injured, without adequate shelter, food or water, make the call. It doesn’t matter if it’s a stranger, your neighbor, your friend or your family.

You don’t have to prove anything. You don’t have to investigate it yourself. That’s not your job.

But speaking up might be the reason somebody who can help gets the opportunity to.

Animals don’t have a voice to call for help.

Sometimes, you are it.

clocked in. caused chaos. clocked out ✌️🐾
08/05/2026

clocked in. caused chaos. clocked out ✌️🐾

A lil mid week luau for this beautiful summer day 🌺🐾
07/29/2026

A lil mid week luau for this beautiful summer day 🌺🐾

What a fun and enriching week at TDC Summer Camp! 🏕️While summer camp may be over, our DayCare days are still planned wi...
07/24/2026

What a fun and enriching week at TDC Summer Camp! 🏕️

While summer camp may be over, our DayCare days are still planned with lots of fun. Next week our overall focus will be sniff & search games with a Luau Pawty on Wednesday! 🌺

Give your pup a summer of fun with the Dog Girls! 🦴

Just some of our campers checking in for the week! 🐾⛺️Tomorrow pups test their survival skills with mind boggling puzzle...
07/20/2026

Just some of our campers checking in for the week! 🐾⛺️

Tomorrow pups test their survival skills with mind boggling puzzles and an agility course 🧩

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Nothing beats a day at the Wild Lands with these happy pups!! Adventures are always better with wagging tails 🌊🐶
07/16/2026

Nothing beats a day at the Wild Lands with these happy pups!! Adventures are always better with wagging tails 🌊🐶

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302 King Street
Fruitland, MD
21826

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Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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