Has anyone here ever put their dog in a boarding kennel while they have gone on holiday?
My boss put her two puppies into one a few months ago and they were really ill for two weeks after they came back.A lot of vet bills later and they have recovered.

I always think it's wise to go to a kennels on a personal recommendation, preferably from a few people.
Then again, I think possibly putting puppies in a kennel is a way of asking for trouble.
Alterations to their diet and the stress implications would open them up to a lot of problems. I certainly wouldn't kennel pups unless I absolutely had to.

I've had my dog at a boarding kennel. Unfortunately when I picked him up he had ticks. I took him back and they gave him a complimentary tick dip.

It's amazing really how they actually would give him back to you with ticks in the first place.
Don't these places check the dogs over on a regular basis whilst the dogs are in their care?

Ooh, I'd have been hopping mad.

Originally Posted by Dollydog

It's amazing really how they actually would give him back to you with ticks in the first place.
Don't these places check the dogs over on a regular basis whilst the dogs are in their care?
Ooh, I'd have been hopping mad.

Believe me, I was angry as well. That's exactly how he received an immediate tick bath. And they'd better not ask me to pay for it either.

I have never kenneled my dog, but I have went and visited kennels when my mom was looking for one for her poodles, and I can tell you what we looked at 6 and I did'nt like any of them, my mom did but shes not as protective over her dogs as I am mine. I would'nt have left my pup in not one of them. The poor dogs are in small cages and let out only twice a day. The cages are concrete floors and side by side, my poor pup would go nuts. But sometimes people have no choice but to kennel, so I would just visit alot in your area, ask TONS of questions get things in writting and everything should be fine.

I asked the vet's office for recommendations for kennels; turns out they have kennels! I tell Phoebe she is going to camp when she has to stay there, she likes it a lot and has never come home sick.

sometimes I just hire a dog walker, though, to come in a few times a day if I'm only going to be gone a little while (weekend or something).

oh lord if i tried leaving our dogs alone for more than 2 hours at a time they would freak out... you are so lucky your dog is ok with that LOl I work from home, so they are ALWAYS around atleast one person, sometimes they whine when "daddy" leaves to run errand and I always say 'what am i chopped liver?!" lol I'm sure if I tried doing the dogwalker thing, I'd come home and there would be a pile of rubble where my couch use to be LOL
We plan all our trips to allow us to take our dogs with us.

Originally Posted by ScottyDoggy

oh lord if i tried leaving our dogs alone for more than 2 hours at a time they would freak out... you are so lucky your dog is ok with that LOl I work from home, so they are ALWAYS around atleast one person, sometimes they whine when "daddy" leaves to run errand and I always say 'what am i chopped liver?!" lol I'm sure if I tried doing the dogwalker thing, I'd come home and there would be a pile of rubble where my couch use to be LOL
We plan all our trips to allow us to take our dogs with us.

It's great that you can take you doggies wherever you go.

Well the real secret is I never go anywhere LOL
Sometimes I go to my mothers for bbq's or sunday dinners, we pack them up in the car for that...but everything else...I go to walmart about twice a month and thats it really...I'm a real hermit lol