What to send with a boarding animal

Send the food the animal already eats, measured into the number of days. Changing food and changing address in the same week is how a boarding stay turns into an upset stomach. Send bedding from home, unwashed. It smells of the house, which is the whole point. Write the medication down: what, how much, when, and what it is for. A dose explained at the door on a busy morning is a dose someone has to guess at on day four. Tell us the things that are not medical. That he will not eat if a person is watching. That she gets out of a collar if she backs up. Those are the details that make a stay go well, and nobody thinks to mention them.