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For a year, Ashley Horan has been struggling to keep the lights on at her pet boarding business as travellers remain few and far between.
While airlines and tourist destinations suffer, the places offering staycations to the furry friends left behind have been the forgotten businesses during the pandemic, said Horan, who owns Everydog and Cat in Rouleau with her husband Lonnie.
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“We don’t have a big voice. People don’t think about how we’re doing and we’re all trying to be really stoic about it,” Horan said. “But we’re struggling. We don’t have any business, and that’s a hard thing to talk about.”