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Shores Kennels is committed to providing the best pet care available to its guests and their owners. We believe it is our job to make your pets stay with us pleasant and comfortable by following the basic principals of kindness, respect, understanding, compassion and empathy, while being fair and honest in our service as caretakers. We are committed to always responding positively to the requests of our customers and the needs of our guests

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Why use a kennel specifically designed for boarding long or short term?

Great care and expense goes into the design of a boarding facility to make it
virtually escape proof. Covered runs, cement floor and outside runs make it impossible to dig out.
Enough can't be said about social interaction. An idle mind isn't any better for your pet than for a human.  

The design of an indoor/outdoor kennel ensures your pet will be given one-on-one care several times each day and get plenty of fresh air and exercise.

We interact with the dogs during the day, all day, every day, as well as during meal and snack times.

Cats will be given individual attention daily, too, giving them time to get out to stretch their legs and play.  

When bad weather is predicted or imminent we put the dogs indoors where it is almost soundproof to mask thunder, wind or on some occasions, fireworks.

We always are making sure our guests are safe and comfortable.

You'll have the peace of mind knowing that since we interact with our guests so much during the day, any problems with illness or an injury will be noticed right away. Your pet's happiness and well-being is the most important thing to us. We will be in a position to take immediate action if a problem arises.  

Pets left at home for many hours may escape from and inexperienced 'dog sitter' and often run away searching for their owner.  A pet suffering from separation anxiety could try to find their owner by digging out of their yard or if inside, work out its frustration on your home's interior.

Lack of social interaction and boredom from spending almost all day alone
can be very stressful to a pet.  How many times have we seen a dog destroy
something when it had nothing better to do?  Amazingly, it's usually the most
valued item in your possession.  It's as if they took the time to individually
appraise each thing in the house before choosing!  

If your pet were to become sick or injured at home alone he/she may have to
wait for hours, possibly overnight before anyone notices, IF they notice at all. The first few hours of an illness or after an injury occurrence is often critical and could mean the difference between life and death.   

If your dog is the least fearful during thunderstorms, left alone
during a thunderstorm with no one to comfort them can panic, causing
extreme distress and injury.
  

 

Here is another reason below!  One of our clients drove with her dog to Washington State a couple years ago (dachshund) and he ran away from her at a hotel...several weeks later, and two plane trips by her to look for him, he was located and transported home...all at the owners expense.  Here is another story that has popped up recently.

 

Added 2-16-2009

Dog lost on vacation miraculously turns up 6 months later

A 7-year-old golden retriever named Buck, startled by a train whistle last summer and lost for six months in north-central Montana, is back home in Washington state thanks to the efforts of several Chester, Mont., residents.

The Associated Press

 
HELENA, Mont. — A 7-year-old golden retriever named Buck, startled by a train whistle last summer and lost for six months in north-central Montana, is back home in Washington state thanks to the efforts of several residents of Chester.

"I've never had a miracle happen to me, so I don't really know what to think," said Kim Halter, of Bonney Lake.

Halter said she, her husband and two of their sons were on a family trip to Montana in August when they stopped at a rest stop along Highway 2 in the small town of Chester.

"The dog was normally never on a leash. Big mistake," Halter said Thursday. "But he was always next to my son. He never left his side, so we never really had a problem.

"We were under the trestle when the horn blew. When Buck heard the whistle, he took off like a shot. None of us even saw him."

Halter said Maxine Woods, who lives across the highway, was waving her arms and trying to tell them that their dog ran away.

"He just basically disappeared," Woods said Friday. "He was just going faster than any dog I've seen run."

Woods joined the search for the dog.

"She got in her car, and then she started calling people, and before you knew it, everybody around there was looking for our dog," Halter said. After two days of unsuccessful searching, the Halters, brokenhearted, resumed their travels.

"We went to the library, and the librarian in Chester made us posters and wouldn't charge us a dime for them," Halter said. The family put up posters in banks and post offices in the small towns around the area.

"That was about all we could do," she said.

After a few false sightings, the family didn't hear anything for six months.

As fall turned into winter, heavy snow fell in the Chester area and temperatures occasionally fell into the 20-below-zero range.

"Every time we'd hear about the weather, we would just cringe," Halter said. "I would just cry even harder, thinking 'Where is my Buck?' And, of course, I couldn't let my son (17-year-old Jason) know. I never let him see me cry because he kept the faith and kept the hope.

"He would tell me all the time that Buck's coming home," she said of her son, who had had the dog since it was a puppy. "He actually thought he was going to walk home like in (the movie) 'Homeward Bound.' "

It was about 27 degrees below zero early on Jan. 25, the day Jason Wanken spotted a stray dog on his family farm just north of Chester.

"We spotted this dog out here on the farm, just on and off, going through the creek and whatnot," Wanken said. "We just never had a prime opportunity to go over and get him."

Later in the week, Wanken used a snowmobile to bring some food to the dog, which had taken up residence under a collapsed building.

Wanken's mother had remembered the name of the golden retriever that had gone missing last summer and told Wanken to see if the dog would answer to the name Buck.

"The next day, I took the boys out with me, and I had a full bag of food with me, and I just rattled that bag," he said. "I started to feed it and could actually pet it then."

Wanken and his wife were able to use food to lure the dog into a kennel.

They took the dog to Woods' house.

"I thought it couldn't be this dog, though; it's been too long," Wanken said.

Woods called Halter on Jan. 31.

"She e-mailed me three pictures, and when I was on the phone with her I received the pictures, and we both started crying and I said that was him," Halter said.

Confirmation that the dog had an underbite sent the Halters on a 750-mile trip. "We drove all night," she said, arriving in Chester Sunday afternoon.

"When we got to the Wankens, he ran right up to us, and it was absolutely, without a doubt, him," Halter said. "It was a miracle. He looked at us, and we looked at him and we were all crying. It was beyond amazing."

No one seems to know where Buck had been between Aug. 13 and Jan. 25.

"From the time he left us until the time Jason Wanken found him, there is no clue where he's been or what he's done," Halter said. "Only he knows. I almost feel like taking him to a pet psychic to see if they could tell me. Only he knows his secret, and he's keeping it to himself.

"I tell ya one thing, he hasn't stopped smiling since he got home, and neither have we."

 

 




 

 

 

 

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