Too Pampered????

Hey guys what is up,

I have a lot of posts in the works right now. This one is going to be about some of the pampered pooches that come in and somethings that annoy me that owners do. First lets talk about the pampered ones. How pampered is too pampered? I love dogs as much if not more than the next person. All 20 years if my life we have had at least one dog. But there comes a point, in my opinion, that a dog becomes too pampered. **THIS WHOLE POST IS JUST MY OPINION. I AM NOT JUDGING YOU IF YOU DO ANYTHING IN THIS POST**

Ex #1: We have 1 dog that comes in that literally don’t eat dog food. Her owners literally makes an omelet type thing every time she comes. Her owner even packs a few extra in case we want to try one and has said they had one for dinner before. I’m sorry but that is too pampered. I know some people like to add veggies to their dog’s food because there are some veggies that are really good for them. However, there is a difference between adding a handful of sliced carrots or green beans to your dog’s food and literally cooking them something on the stove. That is just insane to me.

Ex #2: We have a pair of dogs that come in that literally get carried everywhere. The owner will not let you put them on the ground. When his wife pulls up he is in the back seat or passenger seat holding them. We have to either take them inside or just hold them until they leave or he will become too upset. I understand how seeing your dogs run to the fence and whine as you leave is upsetting. I get it. But it is annoying to us as worker. If we take them inside they will poop in their pen and then that’s one more thing in our busy schedule that we have to do. I’m sorry if that sound mean or heartless but it’s true.

Now let’s move on to things that annoy me that owners do. One thing that always annoyed me was the owner of our newly passed Hiro. He was paralyzed in his back legs after tripping over a tree root and his back legs never worked right after that. He could hold himself up for a bit but then his legs would give out and he would drag his legs. This was bad because he would end up having his back feet covered in scabs because he would drag them on the concrete. To fix this, we used a slip lead and would put it around him and hold him up like a sling. He could still walk on those legs but wasn’t dragging them. His owners hated us doing that. They wanted this poor dog to drag his legs. I’m sorry but I’m not doing that. So when I was working and they’d come pick him up id just carry him. He was a little shiba inu type dog. I say type because he was smaller and shorter than normal shibas. So me carrying him wasn’t hard.

Another thing that owners do is bring rawhides. I cannot tell you the number of times I have thrown away one of the flat rawhides because the dog was chewing it and it made its mouth bleed.

The final thing that i'm going to talk about that owners do is a mix of things.

#1: Being late. If you say you are going to pick up your dog on an even numbered hour, 12 – 2 – 4 -6 etc., then please don’t be late. We make sure we don’t have dogs out at those times because we walk them every two hours and it can be a hassle getting certain ones in when someone shows up. If you aren’t going to be able to make it by the time you said just call and it’s not a big deal.

#2: Not calling. If you didn’t set up a pick up/ drop off time, then it’s fine just call and let us know when you are on the way. That’s an easy concept right? Apparently not. We have certain ones that never call. You just have to hope and pray you don’t have an asshole out when they show up. Now we have one we never calls but since she never does she understands if someone else is outside and she has to wait till we put them up. If you just show up and I am walking a dog that isn’t yours don’t glare at me the whole time I am putting that dog up. It isn’t my fault you didn’t call. If you had called, we would have either had no one out or we would have had your dog out.

#3: Opening the gate/ coming in without permission.  We have an acer of fenced in land for all the dogs to play on. All of the dogs, as long as they aren’t jumpers and listen to us, go in the bigger yard. If not, they go in our smaller yard. The small yard is just like a rectangle that is fenced off from the rest of the yard. Now if I am in the small yard and you pull up, I may or may not leave the dog out there and go get yours. It depends on how the dog I am with will react to your dog or how yours will react. If you dog and the one im with will be ok to be outside together then I’ll tell you that you can come on in and I will go let yours out. If I’m in the big yard and have a dog out that isn’t yours, DO NOT open the gate or come in until I have the dog in its run. Granted not all of our dogs will attack you if you just walk in but we do have some that might and we have some that would attack you and put you in the hospital. We do not want your dog getting hurt if you are dropping them off or you getting hurt if you are picking them up. Just don’t come in. Just because I am walking a dog to its run or back inside doesn’t mean that the dog won’t turn around and run back to where you are. So please for our sanity don’t do it.

Well that’s it for this post guys. If you have any questions, comments or topics you want me to post about just leave them in the comments. I’ll talk to you all later. Byyyyyeee