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• A home with furniture and people, and love-not a kennel with concrete floors and walls
• Huge fenced-in yards for dogs with different energy levels, play styles, and needs. 
• ​Humans to keep them company, provide TLC
• Basic obedience-reward-based, force-free training incorporated into their days
• The guarantee that your dog will be cared for like one of our own​
• ​When possible, an assessment of every furry visitor we house
• An introduction into the pack slowly and carefully
• Honesty about your dog's behavior while you're away and workable solutions and suggestions when negative behaviors arise  

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In 2006, "I.O.U. Pet Care," formerly known as "Pet Passions Sitting Services," sprung to life. A passion for fostering homeless dogs and watching them reap the benefits of living in a home environment instead of a shelter/kennel helped Martha Dunne envision and establish a second home for "canines on vacation." Implementing the same concept of incorporating a homeless dog into their family, Pet Passions Sitting Services came to be.  
On April 10th, 2015, they closed on a new "Home Away From Home," utilizing the home for boarding, daycare, and training. How exciting!!!! The new facility is now called "Inner Outer Utopia Pet Care or "I.O.U. Pet Care". 

A visit to a local kennel, the sight of a gorgeous Norwegian Elkhound puppy, excitement ensued bringing him home; she named him Kaiser. Formal training followed. Shortly after, while volunteering at the local SPCA, the family adopted a girlfriend for Kaiser and named her Mia. Three months later, the Dunnes opened their home to homeless dogs, fostering various rescues and shelters throughout the tri-state area. Hundreds of dogs were re-homed in a decade, and some required rehabilitation.   In 2006 Martha established a dog walking/pet sitting service called Pet Passions Sitting Services. She studied and attended workshops on dog behavior, dog training, and first aid for pets and continued volunteering at local shelters. By 2007, renovations were made to incorporate boarding and daycare-"Home Away from Home" for canines on vacation while maintaining outside services for cats, caged pets, and other critters. More than one thousand dogs later and hundreds of cats and animals, she has expanded by recently purchasing Pocono's first "house" (not a kennel) for canines on vacation called "Inner Outer Utopia Pet Care."
Martha is certified in dog training knowledge through Catch Canine Trainers Academy. She believes in positive reinforcement training and employs it with all dogs. 

I.O.U. Help to understand my language. 

I.O.U. Time and training to help you become acclimated to my world, which is foreign to you. I.O.U. Provisions to keep you healthy, physically strong, and emotionally balanced. 

I.O.U. Opportunities to spend time with your kind. I.O.U. Respect and consideration by educating myself to understand the beautiful, unique creature you are- how you communicate, how you love, feel, and what is and is not natural to you. THUS, CREATING AN INNER AND OUTER UTOPIA. 

UTOPIA STARTS FROM WITHIN!