Should You do a Background check on Pet/Sitters Kennel Operators - Page 1

or any other dog professional? Why or why not?

ABSOLUTELY DO A BACKGROUND CHECK!!!!!

Consider this....Would you leave your child with a total stranger or someone you know NOTHING about?  

So you did a background check on every teacher your child had? Every sports instructor? Bus driver?

I would definately check their references. And see what happens when you show up unexpectedly, if you can.

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Too easy not to

How about the kennel owner/operator does a background check on you just to see if you are as big a moron as you seem to be?  How about maybe they don't want your dog in their kennel because of how you raise it and treat it?  Does the kennel owner/operator get extra credit for babysitting your spoiled little critter when it won't eat or won't eliminate on concrete and has to be walked 5 x's a day?  Does the kennel owner/operator get extra credit when your dog barks and howls all night in their kennel because he/she is homesick?  Does the kennel owner/operator get extra credit for caring for your dog when it gets a paw caught in the fence or gets a "sour" stomach or heaven forbid, gets kennel cough?  Does your kennel owner/operator get extra credit when your dog destroys kennel equipment or BITES A KENNEL EMPLOYEE?

My point is, it's a two way street.  Don't take people who care for animals lightly, it's a very low paying profession and is normally done because the people love animals.  Without boarding kennel facilities, many of us would not be taking our little luxury vacations, or visiting kids at school or visiting family around the holidays or attending to sick loved ones or making it to important business functions.  It's like raising children these days, everyone feels that "their" child is more entitled to preferential treatment than the next family's children.  We are all equal, no one is better than the next.  I would like to think that the kennel owner/operator would treat your dog as if it was their own, no better, no worse. 

The kennel our dog goes to charges extra for those walks, I'd call that credit, but maybe not extra.

 See the Janice Bartmess thread on the GSD side. 

Absolutely!!