Glenway is one of those Newmarket pockets that knows exactly what it is. Built out across the 1980s and 90s around what was the Glenway Country Club, it wraps a wide green spine of former fairways — the land between Bathurst and Yonge that residents fought hard to keep open. Walk the trails behind Crossland Gate or along the stormwater ponds near Wellington Street West and you'll pass joggers, strollers, and the occasional red-tailed hawk riding the thermals. It is a neighbourhood of detached two-storeys, mature maples, and people who chose the west side precisely because it stays calm.
That calm is exactly what a boarding bird needs, and it's why Glenway owners tend to find us. A parrot doesn't relax in a busy kennel any more than you'd relax in a bus terminal. We run a small studio room — sun in the morning, a humidifier going, no dog, no chatter TV — and we take a maximum of two households' birds at once. From most of Glenway it's a five-to-eight minute drive east, down Bristol or along Davis Drive, to drop your companion off.
Plenty of our Glenway clients are commuters who catch the bus on Davis or drive to the Newmarket GO station off Bayview before a long workday or a stretch of travel. When the dates stack up — a March-break trip, a week in the sun, a wedding weekend in the city — they don't want their cockatiel left with a teenager and a feeding chart. They want someone who'll notice on day two that the bird has gone quiet, and who'll email them a photo of it whistling again by day four.
We feed what you feed, to the gram, and we keep the routine you keep at home. If your African grey expects the cage uncovered at 7 a.m. sharp, that's when it happens. And every single day you're away, a short letter lands in your inbox: what they ate, what they refused, what made them laugh. For a Glenway household used to a quiet street and a settled bird, that's the whole point.
— from the studioNorthbird Newmarket · serving Glenway