Another reason never to take your dog to a boarding kennel

That is awful!! That poor dog.  Sorry, hayley018, but if your boarding facility is considered the best, I would hate to see the worst!!

I live in the US and while I am sure there are some places like where you work here in the US, there are many boarding kennels that are very good and are staffed with very "animal loving" people.  I am sorry you work in such an awful place.  I would have difficulty staying there. 

Oh. My. God...
 
I want to punch your boss. I want to punch her very hard, if at all possible in the face.
 
This is... That has to be the most replusive thing I have ever heard! They're... It's...! ARGH!
 
This just comes to show how obsessed people are with money and stupid material these days. No care for life; innocent, precious life...
 
Excuse me. I'm going to go kick the couch. Don't ask why - YOU KNOW.

I too would like to punch something... preferably the owner of the kennel and the owner of that poor dog!!!   [][:@][>:][X(]

poor dog, thats very sad.  they need to improve their conditions.  make your boss live like that for a while see how she likes it...[:@]

That's awful.  Is there anyway you would be willing to push the issue of the benefits of spaying the poor dog?  If the kennel has that many clients, then they won't miss one angry/offended client?  Could you suggest directly to the client that you know a place that will spay her cheaply and she won't have anymore unwanted pregnancies...I dunno...you know the atmosphere best so it has to really stink to see this happening.  I feel bad for you and mamma dog.  You know the old saying "Evil flourishes while good men do nothing." But the saying doesn't mention anything about how doing the right thing doesn't pay the bills afterward.  It's a shame to have to choose saying something or keeping your job.     Jules

wow..thats horrible..poor momma...

Thats HORRIBLE! Wish I could slap that kennel owner, and the dogs owner too, how can you NOT know your dog is pregnant and have it give birth in a boarding kennel, well I mean unless they had left it there for a month. . . . .
The one i work at, (boarding kennel/daycare) is very good, they have inside kennels and a outside play area. I hope the owner loses their job for that, I can't imagin what shes done to other dogs if she can just throw a little puppy in the garbage.

Oh my goodness, what is wrong with people!?! [] Your boss, the dog's owner... I don't know who is worse!!

I don't trust most boarding facilities and I don't think I would ever leave my Shih Tzu at one. I'v worked at two different vets that did boarding and the dogs were definitely underexercised. Only twice a day going out for 5 minutes to the bathroom is not enough! And when it's a small dog kept in a cage, that's basically like being crated 24/7. Cruel. Not to mention the stress level of all the other animals around them and the noise level of barking. I think boarding is way too stressful for most animals. []

I have seen a few boarding places that seem good. They have packages where you can have your dog taken for actual walks and for playtime in their enclosed areas. The place I was at though still kept the dogs in a kennel environment which isn't exactly homey and very noisey/stressful. The best environment I've seen for boarding is where the dogs are kept in actual ROOMS that are fairly well soundproofed, have a bed, t.v. and glass door the dog can see out. But even then, you just don't know what really happens when you aren't there.... I'm a worry wart, but having worked in the animal industry for years, I know what can go on behind closed doors.

I too would LOVE tgo punch my boss or even better I would like to keep her in one of her kennels for months on end. We somtimes have dogs for up to a year in these kennels and there never let out (apart form 5mins each morning to clean). It makes me so upset. She even kept her own Rottie (who is 6 and in bad health) in one of the kennels for 7months and the dog had nothing in here but a bed and a water bucket.
 
I hate what goes on. I wish I would slap the owners and talk to them but aI probably wont deal with them. I'm not working again until sunday afternoon. Aaaaahhhh. I get so frustraited with humans. The boss always tells us to tell people only what they want to hear. She lies about exercise and what we do for the dogs all the time. Its infuriating.
 
However, I DO care deeply about the dogs and I try to do my best for them. If I did what I want to do I would loose my job and the wouldnt help my three dogs and cat so I gotta keep my mouth shut.
 
Occasionally I do say what I feel though. If I show a client through and they have an active dog who needs to stay with us for more than a couple of weeks I slip in things like ,"you might want to bring some RMB's or something because if you think of the math....200+ dogs at a time and 3 exercise areas your dog will be alone for about 23 and a half hours a day and so will need something to do."
 
I have turned a few people away from that lol.. Although we have heaps of clients most fo them use us once a year for a long weekend or a week so the boss always wants more customers. She is a money obsessed B!T*H.

This is really sad.  My son works at a kennel for a couple more weeks.  If boarded dogs don't come in with their own food, they are fed Innova.  They have clean blankets daily, the kennel floors have water pipes that heat in the winter and cool in the summer, each kennel has a small fenced area outside for the dogs but they are also taken to the big yards to run twice a day.  They have 7 or 8 exercise yards and obviously if they are full (about 140 dogs) the dogs get less time in the yards running since they ALLL need to get a turn, but they are turned out in the yards alone, UNLESS they came in with others OR unless they also attend daycare at the kennel and other known "friends" are being borded.  They're very careful not to let the dogs mix unless they know for certain that they are friends who get along.  If a dog happens to get dirty while there, they are bathed and in all cases, dogs are bathed before the owners come to pick them up.  If they come in without toys, the staff digs into the stockpile of "forgotten" and cleaned toys and makes sure that each dog has something to play with.  And the owner doesn't CARE if she spends the owners money.  If the dog needs medical care, the vet from the clinic next door comes over, or in serious cases, the dog is taken next door.

My son one morning had to carry an 80 lb lab who was seizing across to the vet.  She had had her meds on time, but she seized anyway.  And if a dog needs meds, well the staff adjusts THEIR schedules so that the dog can get his/her meds at the proper time. Saturdays they typically work a split shift.  The PM time depends on what dogs are boarding  and when they might need meds.  The owner lives above the kennels and administers any nite time meds.

The cats have their own area, separate from the dogs, there is an isolation area for BOTH dogs and cats and the stray center is in a totally separate part of the property in its own building.  And the strays receive medical attention as well, on the owners dime if neccessary.

I would not hesitate for a second to board my dogs there.  And I'm pretty picky.

the place you work sounds worse than most of the county shelters.
 
Oh, and if a preggers dog DID come in without notice and was say a shepherd (those are pretty hard to notice)  THIS owner would send them next door to the vet to whelp in a safe and quiet environment.  She is a former nurse so she could handle it herself, but she wouldn't want the momma stressed by the kennel setting.

How strict are animal cruelty laws in Australia?  That sounds like a terrible kennel, i feel bad for all of the doggies.
 
 

the animal cruelty laws are not strict at all, and I have looked around lots of boarding facilities and have found that there are some real nasty places. Its so sad

i'd also like to punch someone lol...but i guess i'll have to wait in the que.
 
damn that makes me mad.....just because it was a dog that just lost a puppy no-one cared, she should have been left at the vet a bit longer...or better yet, desexed.
 
that's absolutely discusting and i would be kicking that boss where it hurts, then i'd let everyone know how bad the kennel was.
 
i used to think that kennels were great places, iv'e never left nass at one but i thought if i ever needed to it would be fine, lets just say that if anyone treated nass like that they would not want to show their face around me again.
 
some people are just sick....how can someone think material stuff is more important than a dog? or any animal for that matter.
 
as for the owner [:@]