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Cared for in someone’s home, or kennel?

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Livelovebehappy · 12/08/2023 22:09

The family are going away for a three night break later this year, so means we have no-one to look after our Whippet. I’m therefore having to decide what’s best - kennels, or someone who looks after dogs in their own home. It’s really stressing me, as I feel so bad about having to leave him somewhere he’s not familiar with, and whether he will feel abandoned. In other peoples experience, what did they find worked for their dog? My whippet likes people, but not so much other dogs. And is very typically needy.

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HateTheView · 22/08/2023 23:30

Whattodo121 · 13/08/2023 00:36

We have a nervous Border Collie who takes a looooong time to warm up to new people and doesn’t really like dogs she doesn’t know. We decided to go with kennels for several reasons:
1-the kennels manager is a qualified behaviourist - we had 10ish settling in sessions and she WhatsApps me updates and photos each day.
2-DDog is safe. She can’t escape, they don’t do any dog socialising and they only allow experienced people to handle the nervous dogs. They’ve set it up so she’s in a kennel where she can be let out to play ball and go back in without any human contact if necessary.
3- they feed her endless cocktail sausages to desensitise her to other members of staff. they do it safely through the fence until she’s confident enough with them to come out. She absolutely loves it!
4-I wouldn’t trust other people to be as careful as we are with her. For example, if we have visitors to the house we keep her out of the way. I would worry constantly if she went to someone else’s house, what if she got stressed and nipped someone. In a kennel environment she has her own space, her own bed and she can hide away if she wants to.

Hi, would you be willing to share the name /website of the kennels, please?

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