Kennel Visit & Pre-Boarding Stay
Keeping our kennel stress free and a happy enviroment is 100% priority!
Please be understandng of this and know while your pet is boarding with us they will also be our #1 priority!
Please be understandng of this and know while your pet is boarding with us they will also be our #1 priority!
Kennel Visit
You are more then welcome to come visit Critter Camp!
- A visit is a scheduled appointment.
- We schedule the visits late morning/early afternoon.
- Morning and evening visits are next to impossible to schedule due to the priority of care needed for our current campers!
- We prefer visits are done looking through windows and not actually entering the area of the current campers.
- Your presence creates "Stranger Danger" and creates reactive dogs. This is not the enviromant we want for our current campers. One stranger visiting for a few minutes can create lasting anxieties for our current campers.
- Current campers are our #1 priority.
Pre-Boarding Stay
- This NEEDS to be scheduled and done well in advance- not a few days prior to baording!
- It takes a dog approximately 3 days to adjust, so a one or two night stay really does very little good! In fact it can make their entire experience harder!!
- An afternoon stay has better results, this is the better choice. (Morning drop off, evening pick up.)
- Anxieties build slowly so the afternoon pre-boarding stay creates a positive experience.
- 1- or 2-day stays allow the dog to build anxieties but doesn’t give them the 3-day marker where they learn to adjust to the environment and overcome their anxieties.
- 1- or 2-day stays won't give them the time to learn or have the positive experience therefore they will have higher anxiety for the longer stay!
- Any dogs that show HIGH anxiety during an afternoon stay aren’t a good candidate for a long-term kennel stay!
- You would need to make other arrangements for your dogs!
- These dogs would need drugs (such as Trazadone) for their ENTIRE kennel stay!
- For this reason you NEED to schedule pre-stay boarding well in advance to your borading reservation.
- High anxiety is NOT a good state of mind for your dog or the current campers!
Interesting Fact:
- An anxious dog releases pheromones that tells other dogs to be concerned-- "High Alert" or "Be Nervous" or "Lets Be Anxious"
- A calm dog, playful dog, or happy dog also releases pheromones that tells other dogs "We are happy, relaxed and having fun" or "No need to worry" or "Stay calm"