Doggy Daycare/Boarding Hours of Operation

I did briefly use a boarding facility that kept dogs on Sundays but were only open an hour for drop-offs/pick-ups. It was at noon, which is way earlier than I wanted to drop my dogs for a Monday flight, and meant cutting my trip short to get back in time. Also, it super gave me the creeps. What else are they not doing on Sundays? Are my dogs getting fed? Supervised? Do they not understand how people schedules work? Do they hate money? That was the point I switched to using dogsitters in-home.

Also to build on my earlier comment, I don't even know that I would feel terribly confident in a daycare/boarding place that WOULD be able to offer highly competitive rates such that the inconvenience of a Sunday closure would be mitigated. You'd be cutting corners somewhere and I can't imagine it would be beneficial to either the patrons or the employees.

Your sister should research (call around to other boarding places) and find out if more people typically pick up their dogs on Sunday evening or Monday. Anecdotally, when we board our dog while we go on a trip, we want to be able to pick him up on a Sunday rather than have to make getting him yet another weekday errand (fighting weekday rush hour traffic out to the boarding place) plus having to pay for an extra day of boarding. Unfortunately, http://www.happinesskennels.com/About_Us.html is indeed closed on Sundays and if it wasn't such an outstanding facility, we would have found another place long ago.

If they do not board, I don't see a problem. I don't know what that would do for people going on business trips as they'd be gone and would need boarding rather than day care, but there are Saturday events where being able to daycare the dogs could be handy. If they board, this would render a kennel useless to me. I need Sunday drop-off for early Monday flights, and my weekend trips tend to be the entire weekend, not one day.

Closed like no one can pickup/dropoff on Sunday, or closed like closed, empty the place out? I've used some places that are the former, which is a minor pain, but I would never use a place that didn't allow me to keep my dog there on Sunday since almost any travel I do includes being away on Sunday.

The one I use is only open for pick ups and drop offs during limited hours on Sundays. But they make a point of letting you know that the boarded dogs are being played with and cared for, they just have too limited a staff that day to also staff the front desk and care for daycare dogs too.

It seems it would work better framed as a M-F daycare, that also offers the added bonus services of weekday overnight boarding and/or Saturday care.

The doggie daycare place I use is "closed" on weekends, but they still board dogs those days. It's slightly annoying when I want to send him to daycare on, say, a Saturday, but have to board him overnight instead. But it's worth it because the place is special in two ways: 1. They pick the dogs up and drop them off. 2. It's on an old farm, so there is tons of (fenced) space for the dogs to run and play outside. If it were just a run-of-the-mill doggie daycare, I probably would find someplace that was open on weekends.

The dog boarding place I use definitely has certain days (specifically, holidays) when dogs can be boarded, but there is nobody there staffing the front desk and the place isn't technically open for business. So yeah, that's definitely an option. As to whether to do this on a weekly basis, and what the best day of the week would be, I think that'll depend on her clientele. If it's mostly a daycare for during business hours, being closed Sundays is fine. If it's mostly a boarding facility, I think it would make more sense to close sometime midweek (assuming that a lot of people who board their pets are going on weekend trips). It seems to me that some places that concentrate more on boarding are basically open by appointment only, for specific scheduled dropoffs and pickups. This may be a better solution if the reason for closing on Sundays is that she's the only employee and needs to schedule personal time for herself. Every boarding/daycare facility I'm familiar with is "open for dog business" 24/7. The hours they are closed refer to being closed for business, not empty of boarding dogs.