All Star Pet Care

We love All Star Pet Care. John and his staff are great. John was very patient with our dog, Piper, who was a rescue with a rough start to life. Piper loves daycare and her doggie friends. We are so thankful to be able to take Piper to daycare and know that she will be well taken care of. On top of that, John has been able to help out a few times when we haven’t been able to pick her up by 7pm — by dropping her off at home.

Our puppy Sunny loves going to All Star Pet Care. Even better, her parents are THRILLED to take her because she comes home so tired. John is so incredibly responsive and is very quick to offer up solutions for Sunny-​care in instances where my boyfriend or I have been traveling. He’s incredibly fast on email as well, which is very appreciated by my typeA personality.
All Star also has a webcam from 9−5pm — dangerous addiction while at the office! :)

I’m walking by this place right now (10:04 am ⁵⁄₂₁) and there is someone inside literally screaming «Shut up» at the dogs. I don’t have a pet here and I’m not posting this to be petty but I feel like you need to be called out. I also don’t know the context or the circumstances but I know that anger reflected at a dog won’t yield positive results.

After a very bad experience with another local daycare, we have been beyond pleased with All-​Star! John and his staff are friendly and attentive to the pups. The webcam is a great perk — although can be a productivity distraction at times. Everything is kept super clean, with plenty of fresh water and tennis balls available all day. The location is great — conveniently located next to the Western Blue Line stop.
I would highly recommend All-​Star if you are looking for a great daycare!

We tried All Star Pets after a bad experience with another daycare/​boarding center, and were so pleased with how professional, knowledgeable & nice the people are at All Star Pets. We’ve now used them on several occasions for both boarding & daycare, and have always left happy customers.
As another reviewer noted, it is basically an empty warehouse where the pups play, rest & run around as they wish. There is also an outdoor area that is open during nicer weather, and used during colder weather for shorter bathroom trips. It’s certainly nothing fancy, but the dogs obviously don’t care and our pit/​lab mix Boca always comes home happy & exhausted :)
We also really appreciated how seriously they took cleanliness — especially after our previous bad experience at another company. All of the tennis balls & dog bowls are regularly cleaned, and you can always see the employees cleaning up immediately if there is an accident. The WebCam they also offer is great, and offers that added bit of reassurance if you are an attached pet owner. Not to mention — their rates are very fair.
We would definitely recommend All Star Pets!

This place is pretty awesome. It’s basically an empty warehouse that the dogs run around and play all day in. I’ve boarded my dog there 10 or so times over the past few years. It’s always super easy they will even pick up and drop off you pooch. John is a really nice guy, i see him around the neighborhood and he always remembers me, or my dog and stops to say hi. I recommend them to anyone that ever asks.

All Star is great! All the employees treat each dog as if they were their own. They let the dogs run around and they even have an outdoor area for the puppies to enjoy. John and his staff are amazing and I recommend All Star to everyone!

John has been our all around «pet-​taker» for years now. He made home visits for our cats and chickens and any other small pets we had at the time, hamsters, fish, you name it. We always felt great knowing he was caring for all the a animals when we went out of town.
This summer we got our first dog and he’s been awesome with her too. Had her come to daycare a few times to get her acclimated before our first trip and then gave us updates once we boarded her. She just retuned from her second stay and she did great. Had a blast with the other dogs and is now contentedly snoozing. We’re so pleased to have such a great local businesses close by for all our pets!

This place is the best! Whenever we get close my dog starts pulling me in, as she is so excited to go. At first she was shy and unsure at daycare, but John and his crew worked with her and now she loves going. And I love sending her as she comes home tired! I always know she is treated great here, and John goes out of his way to take great care of her! He has been accommodating of last minute requests and changes of plans. I am so happy I found this place, as I know my dog sees it as another home for her. Yay all-​star!

Love, love, love John and his staff! I’ve been taking my rescue, Mya, here for a year now. She has pretty severe anxiety and is on puppy prozac, so she doesn’t do well at home alone all day. She comes every day for daycare and I’ve also boarded with them for weekends away. John is great — very helpful, quick to respond to email, deals with all her little issues (and my requests), etc. She is absolutely insane when I come and pick her up (excitement!) and the staff is always patient with her even when it takes a good five minutes to get her harness on.
About two months ago I moved and decided to start doing half-​day boarding. Well, that didn’t go well. The new place was great, but we both missed AllStar and the staff there and Mya had too much anxiety being home alone for most of the day. As a result of her anxiety she’s not one for long walks, so her energy levels were out of control after work with half-​day boarding! Emailed John, and they were happy to welcome her back to AllStar.
Other than leaving her with family, AllStar is the only place I’ll leave her when I head out of town. Instead of a scared, panicky pup when I pick her up I have an exhausted pup who had a great weekend.
Highly recommended!

We live near by in Logan Square and love the convenience of dropping off our schnauzer, Jean Pierre (JP) for boarding when we head out of town for a few days or for vacation. All Star staff are super friendly and have been flexible with us based on our travel plans. We have also used their walking service for long work shifts so the little guy doesn’t have too much time in the crate. All Star also has a pet camera feed so we can check in.

I have been sending my new rescue Bolt here for about 2 weeks now, I’ll make sure to update later once it’s been longer, but I want to say that the inital process in starting daycare here was great. John has gone out of his way in every sense to make sure me and Bolt are well taken care of at the facility. He is timely with his e-​mail responses, checks in with you to make sure the daycare is a right fit for your dog, and is overly accomidating with any last minute resquests.
Bolt is almost a different dog after coming here consistently for the last two weeks. Anytime I’ve checked the webcam there is always 1 – 3 guys in the facility with the dogs playing catch and making sure everyone is behaving. We use a dog walking service as well some days and the notes left are things like «Bolt lives to play hard», so I know he is an active one and that has really worked out great for him so far.

We adopted the love of my life, our Border Collie/​Aussie mix, Sasha, in March, 2012. When we adopted her, my poor baby was in rough shape, to say the least. The day after we got her, I walked over and met John at Allstar. Sashes is a bit weary when it comes to strangers, but I knew it was love at first sight when she had NO issue with running up to John for some belly rubs. The following day Sashes was getting daily walks with John or Jimmy.
They were both so great with her, and I knew that every day she would be in good hands. I completely trusted John & co. with my dog, as well as with having a key to my apartment! We liked the little notes they left every day, and the occasional pictures of Sasha we would get via e-​mail during the day.
On a side note, John is extremely knowledgeable about dogs, and could answer every silly question I would ask.
Overall, great local business and great people. Wish we still lived in the area :(

Had our new (1 week) 91 lb black lab rescue «Walter» spend 3 nights and 4 days with John and the All Star crew. Painless vetting process. Painless drop offs and pick ups. Friendly, courteous customer service. Easy convenient online payment. …and voyueristic puppy web-​cam. It doesn’t get any easier or better than that my friends. We will be back. …often.

I probably have the most energetic dog known to man, I hate leaving him in my apartment all day while I’m at work, so I like to take him to All-​Star Pet Care so he can play and come home tired and rested. Well that’s exactly what happens. My dog loves it there; they even have a webcam where I watch him play with the other dogs.
John, the owner, clearly loves animals and so do the rest of the guys working there. I have a pit bull, and they make sure before any dog stays there that it’s friendly with other dogs. Also, your dog has to be up-​to-​date on it’s shots/​vaccines. If I have to go out of town and need to board my dog, All-​Star is where he goes. I know Bud is in good hands and well taken care of. Can’t imagine taking him anywhere else. 5 stars!

Still giving John and crew 5 stars. Just wanted to comment on the woman (hannah k.) who has never used their service but gave them one star. Seriously!?! How can you review them? That should be taken down! She gave them one star for throwing poop away in the alley. .. SO rogue, those guys. And for the record the outside area she is talking about is only a fraction of the property. The dogs have *p*l*e*n*t*y of room to play indoors, with toys and blankets to lay on, and fun workers who throw balls and wrestle with the dogs on the floor! What more would a dog want than a place to play all day, hunker down for a nap, get in a good walk, and occasionally use the bathroom for relief? But not according to hannah k.. .. Imagine having your dog use the facilities at its leisure instead of having to hold it all day waiting for you to get home; [shudder] the horror!
Anyway, still take my dog here almost 3 years later. We moved farther away and I still refuse to take my dog anywhere else. John picks him up from our house in the morning, and we go get him in the evening — then he sleeps for the next two days, exactly what the exhausted pet owner wants at the end of the week. And I still board him there for holidays or weekends if neeed. Don’t listen to that idiot review. Call John and see for yourself how great this place is.

Seriously, I cannot say enough great things about All Star. We’ve been going to them for daycare for months now and they couldn’t be more accommodating. We’ve even switched up the days that our dog goes to see them because of our fickle schedules and they always happily work with whatever new schedule we throw at them. Also, we recently started buying our food through them since they deliver too, which helps with our busy work/​parent schedules and it saves us tons of time and money. We recently ran out and forgot to pre-​order but All Star came through the next day and delivered us another bag of food. Awesome!
Our gal gets picked up and dropped off always freakishly overjoyed to see her buddies at All Star. That has to be a good sign. She lives to play fetch and they indeed throw that ball all day long for her. These guys rock, seriously.

These guys are great. Simple as that —
What’s most important to me is that they take good care of my dog. If you’re concerned with image, or a cluttered desk — head somewhere else. If you’re looking for a good, trustworthy group of guys who will watch your pet as if it was their own this is the place to go.
See, I can offer a unique perspective. I live a few doors down and work from home most days. I see these guy walking dogs all over the neighbored and the dogs are always happy and so are the walkers on the other end of the leash. I’ve never seen them loose control of a dog, be aggressive, short tempered or anything of the sort.
Not to mention when Sadie (my dog) crosses paths with anyone from the AllStar team she lights up.
Keep it up.

My boyfriend works here so I’m just commenting as someone who knows the guys that work there. We have an English Bulldog that goes in with him at least two/​three times a week and she LOVES it and comes home worn out and happy. I know for a fact that he (and the guys he works with) LOVE those dogs! They seriously get spoiled and play all day, it’s cute. It’s so nice to sit at my desk and be able to check in on the webcam for a little entertainment!
I also will say, in response to the claims of people who say their dogs have been bitten, it does happen. I know for a fact though that there are always people watching the dogs every second. Those dogs get undivided attention but sometimes arguments break out and those little tiffs are broken up immediately and things always go back to normal. It’s inevitable! They’re dogs! In order to prevent it 100% you’d basically have to lock the dogs up, and then the complaints would double!
All in all, I just think it’s good for people to know that the people that work here are honest and love dogs and baby them like their own pets!

I boarded my australian cattle dog here for a week and watched him online and it seemed like he was being well taken care of. The staff was always helpful when we called in to see how he was doing… Oh and the staff did a temperament test on my dog before we could sign him up which i thought was really responsible… at first.
When we picked up our dog we noticed that he had a HUGE gash on his face. Apparently another dog had bit him a couple of days before we picked him up and no one told us! For as much as dog boarding costs, I was really disappointed that no one had told us or noticed this!