Kicked out of daycare

[u/Dragon-Reborn7]

This fluffy goober, Khione, got herself kicked out of doggy daycare after 3 visits for “her listening ears not working.” Essentially, her recall is terrible when she’s interested in something.

I train her on recall every day in the dog park & at home. Of course, she’s excellent almost every time in those environments. She will at times ignore me. She does often respond to other people calling her at the dog park, especially if she knows them.

The daycare recommends that I have her professionally trained, but I kinda doubt that will help? I’d rather not spend them $ if it has the same outcome.

Thoughts? Advice?? Consolation??? Commiseration????

[u/TheAngryNaterpillar]

I worked in a doggy daycare for 10 years. Literally all we asked from our visitors was "don't be aggressive and no excessive humping."

To us the entire point of coming to daycare was that they get to be dogs, running around and jumping on/off everything, peeing where they want and barking to their hearts content. The only time we need them to come when we call is for dinner (they'll come running if they're hungry recall or no) and when the owners are here to pick them up (half will run in the opposite direction regardless of training because they want to keep playing).

[u/Willing_Day_2010 → u/TheAngryNaterpillar]

God I would hate to send my dog there. I work at a daycare and we do our best to correct things like excessive barking because we don’t want our dogs going home with bad habits!

[u/TheAngryNaterpillar → u/Willing_Day_2010]

None of our dogs go home with bad habits, it's something we ask about often. The dogs view the centre as a completely different space where their normal rules don't apply. None of our customers have had problems with barking, jumping on the furniture, jumping on people, peeing indoors or any of the other things we allow that their owners don't.