City Dogs Daycare Staff - COVID-19

We are raising money to directly benefit our wonderful and dedicated staff at City Dogs.  Many of our loyal customers have asked how they can directly support our staff, so we have set up this GoFundMe in response.  We have set a goal of $5000, which is about 20% of our 2 week payroll.  As a pet service and supplies business, we are still open during the DC shutdown.

As most businesses have experienced during this time, our daily # customers served has been decimated due to the COVID-19 response.  Our daily number of customers served has been approximately reduced by 80% (or, we're only seeing 20% of the customers we normally see).

From our 2 locations, out of 27 employees, we've had to temporarily lay off 19, plus an additional 8 staff members with reduced hours.  We are working with our staff to make sure they are connected to unemployment and other opportunities for assistance, and monitoring legislation being passed by the DC Council and US Congress.  We look forward to bringing them all back as soon as possible.

100% of these funds will be divided by the affected staff.  If you'd like to support the business itself, please consider buying a daycare package, or coming to our store at 301 H Street NE and loading up on dog supplies.  We'd really appreciate it!