San Antonio Texas or somewhere in northern Virginia. Any recommendations would be appreciated. I'll need to have the dog in kennels for about a month or month and a half before I move back due to rules about when they can travel.
Dog Kennel Recommendation
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Are you traveling on orders? My weimariner didnt have to be quarantined at all because I was on orders.. They waived it.
Airline rules regarding ramp temps for pets in cargo holds blah blah.
I'll be on orders but coming from the UK there is no quarantine just a lot more vaccines. I think I'm going to go with a recommendation from rnewman for a place in Culpepper. It's priced very well compared to other places in NoVa. Really he(Oliver) needs to be somewhere that is fairly experienced where he can get a certain amount of attention/direction while in kennels. He's a retired racing greyhound that we adopted and he has some old habits and we've been doing training with professionals to try to get him more adapted to regular dog life with other dogs(not just racing hounds that he's been exposed to for about 4 years of racing and 4 years in kennels before we got him).
I'll be on orders but coming from the UK there is no quarantine just a lot more vaccines. I think I'm going to go with a recommendation from rnewman for a place in Culpepper. It's priced very well compared to other places in NoVa. Really he(Oliver) needs to be somewhere that is fairly experienced where he can get a certain amount of attention/direction while in kennels. He's a retired racing greyhound that we adopted and he has some old habits and we've been doing training with professionals to try to get him more adapted to regular dog life with other dogs(not just racing hounds that he's been exposed to for about 4 years of racing and 4 years in kennels before we got him).
I would worry less about that dog than most. Hes been exposed to this lots. Dont humanize the dog.
Yep, we face the airline stuff as well. Over the years we've been lucky and always fly out of NE airports at night. Getting ready for a trip back this June / July through NYC and hoping the weather cooperates. Good luck.
discostew said:
I had to smile when I read this. One of the hardest issues with a majority of my clients is this issue. Anthropomorphizing ones pet can lead to severe problems in diagnosing/correcting behavior issues.
Oh we don't big word him. Thanks for your advice. I don't see how a kennel that has experienced staff is humanizing the dog. The dog has issues from being a racer and in kennels his whole life. He has had little exposure to other breeds of dogs despite being 9 years old. Combine that with ex-racer mentality and you get a dog that has a very trained reaction to a small dog is that is quickly moving and yappy. A lot of the NoVA places were iffy on this. We've been working with him for over a year and a half now and he's doing much better than when we first adopted him but I am not going to pay a grillion dollars to some place that gets "great" reviews because they have webcams in each animal cage. That seems more like worrying about the dog and humanizing him. If humanizing my dog is sending him to a place that can provide additional training so he doesn't want to eat every Fluffy that he meets then so be it.
mgreenspan said:
No offense, was not commenting on your particular situation. I do have 3 rescued Greyhounds as clients, and 1 of them has had some serious adaptation issues, not just prey drive and stairs, etc. I have a feeling this dog was handled very poorly during her formative training, and is a nervous mess no matter her surroundings. I would agree also that the money spent for some of the boarding places now is a bit much. Have you contacted the Greyhound Rescue in NoVA to see if there is anyone who can provide fostering, or has recomendations for same?
Roach said:
Non taken. No I haven't that is a really good idea though. I'll look into it. Thanky!