Dog Daycare and Pet Boarding Vocabulary in Portuguese — Practice

Ask how the service works

Creche para cães means dog daycare, and hospedagem para animais means pet boarding. Ask how a typical day works, what hours are available, and whether the business needs to meet your pet before the first stay.

Each provider has its own routines and requirements. Ask the staff to explain its current policies, supervision, and check-in process.

Share the feeding and walking schedule

Use horário da refeição for mealtime and passeio for a walk. Explain the routine with short sentences: Ele come duas vezes por dia (He eats twice a day). State the time or portion when the care team needs it.

Write instructions down and ask the staff to repeat them. This helps when there are several details, such as meal times, a preferred walking pace, or a command your pet knows.

Explain comfort items and contact preferences

A familiar blanket is uma manta conhecida, and a favorite toy is um brinquedo favorito. Ask whether you can bring these items and how the business will contact you with an update.

Give accurate contact details directly to the provider. If your pet has a care need, ask whether staff can accommodate it and who should receive the instructions.

Remember: Ask about the routine and share concise, written information about food, walks, and comfort items before the stay.

Check your understanding

Choose the English meaning of each Portuguese example. Answer before looking back at the tables. These questions check the written examples in this guide; they are not a listening or proficiency test.

Recall the Portuguese, then say it

Read the English prompt and say a Portuguese version before opening the answer. The answer shows the example from the lesson; other natural translations may also work. Compare the meaning and the situation rather than counting a different word as automatically wrong.

1. How does the dog daycare work?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Como funciona a creche para cães?

2. Do you offer boarding over the weekend?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Vocês oferecem hospedagem durante o fim de semana?

3. Is it possible to see the space beforehand?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   É possível conhecer o espaço antes?

4. She eats at seven in the morning and six in the evening.

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Ela come às sete da manhã e às seis da tarde.

5. He is used to going for a walk after lunch.

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Ele está acostumado a passear depois do almoço.

6. Can I leave his blanket and toy?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Posso deixar a manta e o brinquedo dele?

Make the phrase useful to you

Choose one example you could actually use. Say it once from memory, then change one detail that fits your life, such as the person, place, time, or object. Check whether your change also needs a different verb form, article, or adjective ending. If it does, compare it with the pattern in the explanation.

Ask about the routine and share concise, written information about food, walks, and comfort items before the stay.

Return to two prompts tomorrow without opening the answers first. If a phrase still feels difficult, shorten it to a useful chunk and build the complete sentence again.

Sources and your next lesson

This I Speak Portuguese practice guide builds on our Dog Daycare and Pet Boarding Vocabulary in Portuguese lesson on Real Life Portuguese, with written recall tasks and additional speaking practice. The explanations and examples are teaching material; the practice questions are exercises, not a transcript of a recording.

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