Who cares for your pet when you're away?

Who cares for your pet when you're away?

We've only left him once & that was cause when we bought him we'd already paid for a holiday to Eire and didn't want to put him through all the necessary for a pet passport (not even sure there was enough time) so he went to a specialist bull terrier boarding kennel & they looked after him really well.

Kaos has never been left, Ty was left in july as we were on our honeymoon. He stayed in a reccommended kennels which i have to say looked fantastic. We were not happy when we picked him up though for loads of different reasons. Just a few: He had a cut (and i would call it a cutt as oposed to a scratch) from his groin right up to nearly his neck, he cowerd every time we put our hand down to stroke him, we sent him with 2 2kg bags on jwb food and they told me he run out so they had been giving him wagg (of all things??) 1 2 kg bag normally lasts him about 1 week. They lost his collar....I could go on and on......
Needless to say they will not be going there again!!!

I would always have to leave kaiser with one of my family im lucky somebody would have hin i just couldnt leave him in kennels he would think we had abandoned him he doesnt like it when we leave him a night with somebody he knows never mind a week with people he didnt know

i ended not going on holiday this year even tho it was all booked could not face leaving him a few weeks after we had got him so the wife went with her mum and the kids instead

Holiday!!!!! Your joking I can't go the lav without him.....He is starting to give me stage frite as well he just sits right next to me starring at me lol

BlueStaffBlue wrote:Holiday!!!!! Your joking I can't go the lav without him.....He is starting to give me stage frite as well he just sits right next to me starring at me lol

Dempsey does that to my OH - only he shoves his head between my OH's legs when he's trying to pee!

ha ha bluestaff memphis was so bad when i went to the toilet he would come and sit in my boxers and watch glad he dont do that now he just sits and stares now

Thats the main reason why im concidering getting him castrated.....nothing to do with aggression to be honest....it's just cos his are bigger and im jelous lol

Kaiser does that to me if i go the loo hes there hes like make shadow he would have a fit if i went away for a week i dont think he would eat

He comes with me if I go away. Good with travelling.

On the very odd occasions that we have to then my stepson always has Tilly and then she has 2 big Bull Mastiffs to play with but even then lately she has sulked more than she played so most of the time our lives are geared around not having to leave her , so dog friendly holidays and pubs , leaving mum and home while I take the daughter shopping etc

We've had Rocky about 18 months now and have not been away, so no need to leave him with anyone.

Kennels, tried a dog sitter that didn't work, he came back from the kennels perfect

She comes with

We haven't ever left Suki. Would love to find someone that would care for her properly though

jstaff wrote:We haven't ever left Suki. Would love to find someone that would care for her properly though

As long as mum has Moo, I'll come and Suki sit

Mighty long plane ride

Be fun

It is an interesting country

I have never left my boy for longer than two nights. He will mostly come with me. I live in a cottage and the people in the house look after him. He loves their dogs and their kids and they all love him. Does not stop me leaving pages and pages of instructions for his care though. I am sure they think I am OTT!

we decided not to go on holiday last year or this so we dont leave the dogs behind my mum has offered to have them but id rather take a week off work and just be at home with my 2 and go for nice long walks bliss!!

We never leave the dogs, our house mate looks after tango and the buns but we only ever go away for 2-3 days very rarely at that too.

Since i have had stan will be 4 years in september i have never left him, not even for one night id be too worried.

Id rather be with my 3 they are fair too imporant more than anything

i dont go away lol cos i wouldnt trust anyone with my dogs, i get told my dogs rule my life and stop me doing things but all i say back is my dogs are there for me, always pleased to see me and always loyal, are people no lol, if you dont like my dogs then i dont like u, simples!!!

We plan on going on dog friendly holidays. My mum may have him the odd time.she is used to staffies as we have had them since we was kids!

I havent gone away for years because my Schipperke has really bad seperation anxiety. The first time I left him with my parents, but he toileted all in their house and got so anxious mum had to take him everywhere with her. He also escaped twice (despite their 6 foot fences) so I can't leave him with them again. The last time I left I put him in the boarding kennels but he got so stressed out he didnt eat for the 4 days I was away, pee'd all in his bedding and chewed his feet til they bled. He was in a bad way when I got him back

I have only been away once since getting Bull - and was able to organise getting his previous owner to come and feed him. Anyone else I would be too scared to leave him with as he can be aggressive and unpredictable(was previously used as a guard dog). He also tends to be worse when confined so don't know (or want to risk) what he would be like in a kennels situation - although he may well be fine as it is not his 'territory' as such.

I'm going away for a couple of days in January next year, and I'm ALREADY stressed out about what to do with my pets

always going to be a problem and I see you have extra problems because of the background , we don't leave ours but if it was an emergency then it would be kennels just have to be really selective over which one though there are a couple of decent ones around here

We left Debo once. At the weekend when we got him my mum was in critical condition in hospital,we decided that only I gonna go ( I'm from Poland) .But sadly she died so my OH joined my for the funeral and we had to leave DEbo with my employers for 3days. That was the only time we left him,he always travel with us.

we are fortunate that we can leave Charlie with family members. My ex MIL lives across the road so if we are away for a night he goes there.
Had to go away for a weekend recently and my SIL had him. She has 3 staffs and a french bulldog so I'm very confident she knows what shes doing and because Charlie has been past from pillar to post in the past, he seems at home where ever he is. Was lovely when I went to collect him. He had a look on his face of surprise and excitement that I had come back. Melted my heart lol
We haven't had to leave Star. But the same will apply, although if we were considering a family holiday I'd try my best to make sure the dogs could come, after all they are my children.

naidean wrote:we are fortunate that we can leave Charlie with family members. My ex MIL lives across the road so if we are away for a night he goes there.
Had to go away for a weekend recently and my SIL had him. She has 3 staffs and a french bulldog so I'm very confident she knows what shes doing and because Charlie has been past from pillar to post in the past, he seems at home where ever he is. Was lovely when I went to collect him. He had a look on his face of surprise and excitement that I had come back. Melted my heart lol
We haven't had to leave Star. But the same will apply, although if we were considering a family holiday I'd try my best to make sure the dogs could come, after all they are my children.

Most of our family members refuse to have our 2 and the ones that are ok live too far away . The boy used to have Tilly for us but he has an English Bull Mastiff , and since Tilly has now got a bitch and a son so we just think it's a little bit to put on them as it can be quite chaos when everybody and the dogs are in our house at once

Dave, I can imagine it is chaos . Its bad enough here on the weekend when all 6 of our kids are at home and the dogs and cat lol. My sil has purpose built kennels for her dogs, which obviously makes it easier for her.
My sister on the other hand refused to have Charlie because her husband isn't sure of him due to his breed! These are the people that had 2 german sheperds and a jack russel (they were all soppy, just as my charlie)

My mil used to take Diesel every few weekends for us over night but then she took a pup of her nephew and now its total chaos when we take diesel up, same issue 3 kids a teenage girl two dogs an a cat....no way she could handle it herself
going away in jan so roped my mum into babysitting her hairy grand-daughter! She looks after my bro's dog and kids so she should look after my baby

Oh and would never leave her in a kennel! Waaaay too many horror stories! Plus she needs constant attention/affection which she wouldnt get in a kennel