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by brynjulf on 29 September 2012 - 04:09
Joan, why would you be pissed at the kennel operator if your dog was a filthy animal? How in heavens name would that be my fault? As a client you provide your own food, your dog is given 2 one mile walks per day and let out in play yards for most of the day. Why would you be pissed ( your word) if your dog crapped and danced through it not 5 minutes after a walk? I don't understand why YOU would be pissed . I am the one who has to wash a dog, wash a kennel and go get changed. Why would you be pissed? Not all dogs are perfect angels, not sure why some people have the impression that they are.
by brynjulf on 29 September 2012 - 04:09
Sorry to derail your thread Von Ward Kennels. We have A/C in the interior of the kennels and a water mist system on the exterior. It gets very very hot here in the summer and misters are a must, plus the dogs have access to a large pond for cooling off.
by joanro on 29 September 2012 - 10:09
It's called management, brynjulf, and most owners are sucked into dogfood ads on tv. Educate them and feed a quality feed that doesn't cause the dog to crap his brains out. Btw, most dogs that are boarded, unless they are frequent (once a week) boarders, are not accustomed to having to eliminate in confinement. That's where management comes in, and I would be pissed if my dog had to "dance" in shit. My dogs are ALL angles, btw. ;-)
by joanro on 29 September 2012 - 11:09
One more point, brynjulf, I doubt those "filthy animals" are filthy at home, they probably sleep in bed with the owner's kid. Management!
by brynjulf on 30 September 2012 - 02:09
Your right Joan after 27 years in the business I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about. I'll quit tommorow. Over 30,000 dogs have come through my door I'll change my program tommorow. There is absolutely no such thing as a dirty dog in kennel, your right. I'm sure those poop stompers are super clean at home and you bet I am positive those feces covered animals probably sleep with there owners.(they don't they are from large breeders sent in for training or are dogs that live in the back yard and are not housetrained) Makes sense that they only poop at my kennel. Makes total sense......
by joanro on 30 September 2012 - 13:09
27 years experience or one month experience for 27 years.....either way, I didn't say there's no such thing as a dirty dog in a kennel but I did emphasize management. Burn out comes to mind.....
by Sunsilver on 30 September 2012 - 13:09
Geez, take a chill pill, Joanro! Bryn doesn't deserve your criticism!
I've only been in the boarding business 2 1/2 years, but I have frequent flyers come in to my kennel that piss on their bedding the second I let them into the cage. Sometimes the owner will tell me the dog is TOTALLY clean at home, but in a strange environment, just HAS to mark his territory!
I had a little Yorkie in last winter for over a month. This dog had a dog door at home, and was used to coming and going as he pleased. I left the sliding door open as much as I could, and it probably cost me quite a bit in electric bills. But at night, in Ontario, Canada, the door HAD to be closed to keep the little bugger from freezing to death. Every night, he would go NUTS: chew up his bedding, chewed his (owner provided) plastic food and water bowls to pieces, and poop and pee up a storm, then track it all over the kennel. Of course, he also chewed the woodwork around the sliding door. (Sorry, metal frames for the door don't work in our climate. They get covered with frost, and make the door freeze shut.)
In the daytime, he'd pee or poop in his cage if it took me longer than 20 minutes to get around to cleaning his run. I didn't dare let him out in a soiled run, or he'd track the stuff all over.
During the time he was here, I tried every solution I could think of. Puppy pads, put dog in largest cage, hoping he won't soil his sleeping area...nope, he'd shred the pads! Smallest cage in the kennel (about the size of a medium crate)...nope, he soiled that, then chewed through the rope that pulled the sliding door up and down! (It was the only door that didn't have a chain on it. I guess the assumption was a dog small enough to be put in that cage wouldn't be ABLE to chew through a 1/2" nylon rope!)
I'd even make extra trips to the kennel to let him out at night, but that made very little difference. (He was an adult dog, and SHOULD have been able to hold it all night.)
I have never been more happy to see a dog go home! Thank goodness he was EXTREMELY cute!
Mostly, the problem dogs are due to the owner's management. For instance, I get two very large dogs in here, a Dogue de Bordeaux and a S. African boerborel. Their owner keeps them outside most of the time. They are not trained and are not walked. They do not even wear collars. When the Bordeaux first came, he wasn't fully housetrained, and would mess his cage, then step in it. When turned out in the runs, he'd do the same thing. He also drools copiously. The other dog suffers from entropion of the eyelid, and despite surgery, her eyes are filled with pus, which she flings around the cage. Now that I have the 4,000 square foot play area, I put them out there, and that solves the problem of them soiling the run and stepping in it, except for the odd time when they take a dump on the concrete, then step in it as I am letting them back in. (And they ALWAYS seem to step in it!)
Fortunately, at 3 years old, the Bordeaux is now housetrained, so I just have to cope with the dirt and poop they track in on their paws. (They love to dig!)
With most boarders, I clean their indoor kennel about every 3 days. These guys need it done daily!
Lots more stories I could tell. But of course, as I was told by someone on this board when my male GSD started peeing in the house after I moved here, "Housebroke is housebroke..." and a sudden change of environment should NOT cause any problems with the dog's elimination habits. Yeah. Rrrriiiiight!
I've only been in the boarding business 2 1/2 years, but I have frequent flyers come in to my kennel that piss on their bedding the second I let them into the cage. Sometimes the owner will tell me the dog is TOTALLY clean at home, but in a strange environment, just HAS to mark his territory!
I had a little Yorkie in last winter for over a month. This dog had a dog door at home, and was used to coming and going as he pleased. I left the sliding door open as much as I could, and it probably cost me quite a bit in electric bills. But at night, in Ontario, Canada, the door HAD to be closed to keep the little bugger from freezing to death. Every night, he would go NUTS: chew up his bedding, chewed his (owner provided) plastic food and water bowls to pieces, and poop and pee up a storm, then track it all over the kennel. Of course, he also chewed the woodwork around the sliding door. (Sorry, metal frames for the door don't work in our climate. They get covered with frost, and make the door freeze shut.)
In the daytime, he'd pee or poop in his cage if it took me longer than 20 minutes to get around to cleaning his run. I didn't dare let him out in a soiled run, or he'd track the stuff all over.
During the time he was here, I tried every solution I could think of. Puppy pads, put dog in largest cage, hoping he won't soil his sleeping area...nope, he'd shred the pads! Smallest cage in the kennel (about the size of a medium crate)...nope, he soiled that, then chewed through the rope that pulled the sliding door up and down! (It was the only door that didn't have a chain on it. I guess the assumption was a dog small enough to be put in that cage wouldn't be ABLE to chew through a 1/2" nylon rope!)
I'd even make extra trips to the kennel to let him out at night, but that made very little difference. (He was an adult dog, and SHOULD have been able to hold it all night.)
I have never been more happy to see a dog go home! Thank goodness he was EXTREMELY cute!
Mostly, the problem dogs are due to the owner's management. For instance, I get two very large dogs in here, a Dogue de Bordeaux and a S. African boerborel. Their owner keeps them outside most of the time. They are not trained and are not walked. They do not even wear collars. When the Bordeaux first came, he wasn't fully housetrained, and would mess his cage, then step in it. When turned out in the runs, he'd do the same thing. He also drools copiously. The other dog suffers from entropion of the eyelid, and despite surgery, her eyes are filled with pus, which she flings around the cage. Now that I have the 4,000 square foot play area, I put them out there, and that solves the problem of them soiling the run and stepping in it, except for the odd time when they take a dump on the concrete, then step in it as I am letting them back in. (And they ALWAYS seem to step in it!)
Fortunately, at 3 years old, the Bordeaux is now housetrained, so I just have to cope with the dirt and poop they track in on their paws. (They love to dig!)
With most boarders, I clean their indoor kennel about every 3 days. These guys need it done daily!Lots more stories I could tell. But of course, as I was told by someone on this board when my male GSD started peeing in the house after I moved here, "Housebroke is housebroke..." and a sudden change of environment should NOT cause any problems with the dog's elimination habits.
Yeah. Rrrriiiiight!
by laura271 on 02 October 2012 - 00:10
"Your right Joan after 27 years in the business I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about. I'll quit tommorow."
LOL. LOL. I'm coughing and wheezing with laughter here in Ontario.
LOL. LOL. I'm coughing and wheezing with laughter here in Ontario.
by brynjulf on 04 October 2012 - 22:10
I think Joan was riding me because I called a clients dog a "pig" and an "idiot". She figures I am suffering from burnout.... She just can not accept that I do not have to "LIKE" all of my clients dogs. I am human you know. Some dogs are really really hard to like, BUT even the grosses of the gross still get the exact same treatment when they come to our resort! Also the clients with the gross dogs KNOW that there dogs are pigs, after all they have been kicked out of every kennel in town for the behavior. I do not mince words with my clients and I have no problem telling them to their face that their dog is a pig. Joan does not approve of my "Management style" To each their own I say. If you want me to sugar coat something or call your dog a fur baby, go somewhere else! And Laura for heavens sake STOP LAUGHING!!!!
by joanro on 04 October 2012 - 23:10
"...resort..." Now THAT'S funny! Shit soaked dogs running around slinging it every where and on you....sounds like a resort.Lol
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