Kennel uses bark collar injurs dog

**CarolsCritterCare** · 08-12-2007, 03:44 PM

Be sure to know the procedures where you board you dogs. This should have never happened to this dog, or any dog.

http://cbs11tv.com/local/local_story_221205535.html

pk · 08-13-2007, 10:41 PM

This is just wrong. Stories like this makes me so mad at people that claim they love animals.

All I know is years ago we had a cocker spaniel that I put in a boarding place for a few days while we left for a vacation. The place came highly recommended.

When we came home and I picked up our dog he was limping and seemed very quiet and not himself for days. When I asked about the limp they made an excuse that he must have stepped down on something wrong and didn't seem to know anything about it.

I never put another dog in a boarding place again!

**CarolsCritterCare** · 08-14-2007, 09:00 AM

I worked at a doggy day care for 2 years and they also did boarding..........the stories I could tell.......

I started bringing home the dogs at night time. Felt bad for them.

pk · 08-14-2007, 09:27 AM

Isn't there more regulatons or check ups or something that can be done to make places like this a safer environment for dogs/pets? You board your dog with hopes that the business will take care of them like they would your own child and you come back finding all kinds of things wrong.

I'm sure a permit of some kind must be required for places to open, shouldn't there be more controlled check ups from the city/town that allowed them to open in the first place?

Or is there and these places are somehow slipping through the cracks or somehow 'getting by' the check ups?

Just wondering.

**CarolsCritterCare** · 08-15-2007, 12:15 PM

No one regulates these sort of places. The place I worked at had building inspections, fire inspections, had to pass zoning and that was that.
No one comes in to see just how the dogs are cared for. You answer to no one but the owner of the business, and if that owner of the business is clueless in animal care and needs then there will be problems.

pk · 08-15-2007, 04:41 PM

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No one regulates these sort of places. The place I worked at had building inspections, fire inspections, had to pass zoning and that was that.
No one comes in to see just how the dogs are cared for. You answer to no one but the owner of the business, and if that owner of the business is clueless in animal care and needs then there will be problems.

This just totally amazes me that no one regulates these places! Is this just a Wisconsin thing or is it like this everywhere? This is just wrong.

pk

**CarolsCritterCare** · 08-22-2007, 11:33 AM

Right now it's like that everywhere. It's going to take a lot of real bad things happening before these doggy day cares are regulated.

Anyone can own one. Dont need to know a thing about animals, animal husbandry, domination, submission etc.... just need the buck to open up and call yourself a "expert in pet care"

It got so bad at the place I worked at that I was bring home dogs at night time who were to board there. I felt aweful for those dogs.

When I was gone on vacation the other employee there kept emailing me telling me what was going on and how upset she was.......

It was very sad.

One does not need any sort of training at all to open and call yourself a doggy day care.

Carol