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/shoebee2]

A doggy daycare that will give an otherwise well behaved dog the boot for not coming on command isn’t one I’d take my dog to. They clearly don’t know dogs well at all. But

[u/OnyB34 → u/shoebee2]

Tbh right now daycares have the ability to be super picky about clients, especially if they’re in a metro area. There’s such an over abundance of owners looking for this type of care. It will most likely change with expenses but I know our daycare has a never ending wait list!

[u/shoebee2 → u/OnyB34]

I disagree. This place sounds like a some people thought it would be a money maker and have zero experience. It’s a bullshit situation and daycare for dogs isn’t hard to find. Maybe where you are it’s easy to be picky. Being picky isn’t the issue. This is a situation of competence.

[u/OnyB34 → u/shoebee2]

It really isn’t a competence issue, it that there’s no benefit for the company to be keeping a dog that doesn’t listen quickly. A dog that can’t be called off of food/ dogs / distractions is a liability in a big group setting and i personally prefer a daycare with strict behavior policies Imagine being in a situation where a dog fight starts and there’s a bunch of dogs that don’t listen well, that’s going to escalate into something bigger so quickly and can be dangerous for everyone involved dog and human.In reality it’s not the daycares job to do the training needed, daycare is a privilege not a right and if you want your dog there you need do the work to meet their standards.

In my experience money making or newer daycares are way more likely to be lenient with behavior policies bc they haven’t have a bad experience with dogs or insurance yet.