Dog escaping from boarding kennels
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Someone I know who lives local is away on holiday abroad and taken their dog to a professional dog sitter for the week. Somehow last night when the dog sitter has opened the front door the dog has ran out in a bid for freedom. The sitter has been up all night searching the streets and I've helped with searching for it also, but to no avail.
The stress and upset for the owner is obvious, but this must also be stressful on the dog sitter, losing a customers dog. Whilst completely their fault something like this would surely ruin their business if word travels, which it will.
Anyway, I'm off out in the car later to help some more, though the dog could have travelled miles by now so in reality it's probably a pointless exercise, but you do it anyway don't you.
The stress and upset for the owner is obvious, but this must also be stressful on the dog sitter, losing a customers dog. Whilst completely their fault something like this would surely ruin their business if word travels, which it will.
Anyway, I'm off out in the car later to help some more, though the dog could have travelled miles by now so in reality it's probably a pointless exercise, but you do it anyway don't you.
After about 18hrs on the run, the dog has just been found by some friends of the owners who were helping look for it.
A good result in the end, but the owners holiday will have been ruined, though I guess when you leave your dog with someone else so you can go on holiday then there's always a chance something could happen. The dog sitter will be stressed to hell no doubt.
Bonefish Blues said:
Get the drone cam animal search guys on it. The acceptable face of Waltdom
A lost dog charity who were helping look for her did get a drone company to help with the search.A good result in the end, but the owners holiday will have been ruined, though I guess when you leave your dog with someone else so you can go on holiday then there's always a chance something could happen. The dog sitter will be stressed to hell no doubt.
The Gauge said:
A lost dog charity who were helping look for her did get a drone company to help with the search.
A good result in the end, but the owners holiday will have been ruined, though I guess when you leave your dog with someone else so you can go on holiday then there's always a chance something could happen. The dog sitter will be stressed to hell no doubt.
A huge relief for all no doubt. I've been there when our dog ran off with half his neck flapping about after being attacked by a pit bull. A good result in the end, but the owners holiday will have been ruined, though I guess when you leave your dog with someone else so you can go on holiday then there's always a chance something could happen. The dog sitter will be stressed to hell no doubt.
We look after a friends dog on a regular basis and her running off was Mrs 5s main worry. Lexi (the dog) has a GPS device attached to her harness just in case but we've never needed it as she never lets us out of her sight.
This happened to us once. We left our vizsla with our local kennels while we went away. We’d been gone five hours, and were at the British motor museum in Gaydon, when the mother in law called us. Shed opened the front door to put some rubbish out and our dog was sitting on the door step.
We called the kennels, and they hadn’t even noticed he’d gone. The kennel owner had allegedly had some fencing work done, and they’d left a gap which our, as well as two other dogs had found. No apology or refund, so needless to say we never used them again.
We called the kennels, and they hadn’t even noticed he’d gone. The kennel owner had allegedly had some fencing work done, and they’d left a gap which our, as well as two other dogs had found. No apology or refund, so needless to say we never used them again.
The Gauge said:
5s Alive said:
Lexi (the dog) has a GPS device attached to her harness just in case
Good idea, any details of the device please?I wonder if there are any small enough to have permanently attached to the collar?
https://www.pitpat.com/gps-tracker/
We had the same a few years back at a dog daycare. They didn't actually notice for 4 hours that our dog was actually missing, then they called me to ask if he had followed me out of the gate that morning ?! I admit I drove like an absolute a
hole to the daycare, but just as I was turning into their drive, my wife called to say he had been found a mile away by a groundsman at a football club training ground. He had run across two main roads, getting clipped by a moped on the way, a couple of fields and was then spotted by the groundsman who caught him and called my wife, as her number is on our dogs collar. I took him down to the vets, but luckily he was unharmed, just very dirty and tired. Obviously we were livid at the daycare people, especially when they dropped £150 through our letter box to cover our distress, thinking that would make everything alright, without so much as an apology. Needless to say that went straight back to them. The daycare closed down shortly afterwards, and I`d like to think that the stream of negative reviews we left everywhere we could helped somewhat.
hole to the daycare, but just as I was turning into their drive, my wife called to say he had been found a mile away by a groundsman at a football club training ground. He had run across two main roads, getting clipped by a moped on the way, a couple of fields and was then spotted by the groundsman who caught him and called my wife, as her number is on our dogs collar. I took him down to the vets, but luckily he was unharmed, just very dirty and tired. Obviously we were livid at the daycare people, especially when they dropped £150 through our letter box to cover our distress, thinking that would make everything alright, without so much as an apology. Needless to say that went straight back to them. The daycare closed down shortly afterwards, and I`d like to think that the stream of negative reviews we left everywhere we could helped somewhat.A sad tale.
My cousin's spaniel was knocked over by a car (survived, but can't walk properly) under the care of his dog walker. The dog walker was given strict instructions to not let the dog of the lead...
... my Cousin found out intially about the incident from a Vet who had been called at the scene and found his number via the microchip.
I don't let anyone other than one family member look after my dog. Restricting but not worth the heartache. Fortunately I like driving to holidays and hate hotels so it doens't bother me too much generally.
My cousin's spaniel was knocked over by a car (survived, but can't walk properly) under the care of his dog walker. The dog walker was given strict instructions to not let the dog of the lead...
... my Cousin found out intially about the incident from a Vet who had been called at the scene and found his number via the microchip.
I don't let anyone other than one family member look after my dog. Restricting but not worth the heartache. Fortunately I like driving to holidays and hate hotels so it doens't bother me too much generally.
My wife's first reaction when asked to dogsit was "absolutely not". Loves dogs but every excuse under the sun followed. Her main concern was losing her and after that, illness and injury.
There was absolutely no chance of losing her because from the start, when Lexi was a pup, she's been obsessed with Mrs 5 and follows her everywhere. "Maybe I'm ill, dogs know these things". Oh ffs!
Recently she was pretty upset because Lexi ended up with a small graze under her left eye. She's excitable, a bit loopy in fact (Cockapoo), and had run into our daughters house, excited to see her, powersliding around the stairwell and caught her face on the wall at the corner of the stairs, pulling out a tiny tuft of hair in the process. OMG, the upset!
It's no minor responsibility looking after someone else's dog. She's just a dog others will say. Well yes, but she's more than than that, she's part of the family - ours too.
She's very wary of other dogs and goes out of her way to avoid them. Her owners would come back to a skeleton if they left her in kennels.
There was absolutely no chance of losing her because from the start, when Lexi was a pup, she's been obsessed with Mrs 5 and follows her everywhere. "Maybe I'm ill, dogs know these things". Oh ffs!
Recently she was pretty upset because Lexi ended up with a small graze under her left eye. She's excitable, a bit loopy in fact (Cockapoo), and had run into our daughters house, excited to see her, powersliding around the stairwell and caught her face on the wall at the corner of the stairs, pulling out a tiny tuft of hair in the process. OMG, the upset!
It's no minor responsibility looking after someone else's dog. She's just a dog others will say. Well yes, but she's more than than that, she's part of the family - ours too.
She's very wary of other dogs and goes out of her way to avoid them. Her owners would come back to a skeleton if they left her in kennels.
Arrivalist said:
I’m surprised you didn’t wait until the day was over before alerting the owners. As it’s all finished happily they need not have been told till their return.
If I had it a dog and trusted it to a sitter, I would want to know it had run away after about an hour. Imagine getting a phone call saying your dog had been missing since the previous day?!
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