Boarding with training? Residential training? Advice or recs pls

[elsielouise]

Hi

A real quickie please.

Does anyone know of an excellent boarding kennels that offers training in the kent/Surrey border area?

I have just been given a leg op date of next week and will be in hospital and unable to walk or train my dogs for three weeks. I don't want them in kennels without any stimulation as one is six months and other adolescent.

I have been quoted £1900 with no guarantees of a result so um... This is out my budget.

Anyone with suggestions would be much appreciated or they will just have to go to our usual boarders. I will ask them today of course if they can reccommend and also try find a trainer who may visit the kennel but I suspect my usual place wouldn't like their routine disturbed...

 

[CorvusCorax]

The problem (and the reason for no guarantee of a result and the reason I am suspicious of people who sell 'trained' dogs) is with getting someone else to train your dog is...that *someone else* trains *your dog* dog so the dog responds to them and their style. I could give my dog, who is relatively well trained, to someone else tomorrow and they would have no idea how to control him.

A good trainer trains you how to train your dog - so if you do find something, the trainer should ideally take you on a course either before or after the boarding period - although obviously it will be after, with that timescale! Your dogs could come home to their home environment and all the cues they will have been used to during training will be gone and you will still have to put a lot of work in.

A good boarding place will give them stimulation in the form of exercise/free play.
The place I leave my young dog, has an outdoors area with lots of agility equipment (although I wouldn't want a six month old going over jumps) and turn him out for play with selected dogs, so although it is not what he is getting at home, he is getting stimulation and I know no-one is undoing my work (I ask them not to let him play with balls or toys so he doesn't learn bad habits)

If you want the training I would suggest looking up a trainer who does residential training and will offer the back-up rather than a boarder who does training but as you have found, that will be pricey!

Hope you get sorted.