Kennels

... ago. We'll be raising a glass to absent friends at some point , no doubt. Once I've recovered from the guilt of depositing Lottie-dog in kennels I'll be off to Birmingham airport on Saturday to board an Emirates flight to cape Town via Dubai. Can't wait!

... box with Sadie back to the house.  Whilst sorting through the bags I thought Sadie had started walking toward the kennels so I bellowed ‘I think these are okay’ only to find Lisa and Brian standing just outside the door and chuckling at ...

... we reached the bottom. It was afternoon when we go back tot the base, we still wanted to go see the sleg dog kennels.  Against our better judgement, we decided to hike there instead of drive.  We had already hiked 6 very steep miles, ...

... cloudy, so we decided to spend time at the Kennedy Space Center. What to do with the dogs? Well the Space Center provides free kennels, but Maggie and Molly have never been kenneled in their lives, so we were not sure. Maggie would be fine but old Molly ...

... working together to demonstrate a traditional mode of travel. The tours start by taking a bus from the Visitor's Center to the dog kennels.  After a 10 minute ride, there is a word of welcome by the ranger who is leading the dog demonstration of the ...

... and urinated in one of the runs.  He was soon kicked out whilst the dogs introduced themselves following a night in the kennels; they were soaked through after their escapades in the pond yesterday and had been in there to dry off.  A walk to ...

... a bit of a mumble and groan, then I noticed the fuel gauge below empty and remembered this from the week before!!! Back to the kennels while stressing about fuel, made it. Picked up Kate and the pups then made a move to the first servo we saw at ...

... fact we had to drop Nikki and Laika off at the kennels before we could start on our trip down the Great Ocean Road. The kennels were in Balliang East, which is about a forty minute drive from Meredith. Apparently it was on the way to where we needed to ...

... up to go check in today and I slept in. He made a couple of stops, went out and met some of the handlers out at the kennels. He hasn't been assigned a dog yet and the kennel master is on vacation till next week. There are two dogs that he may get so we ...

... a few days when we take a bus deep into the park. Right after the film we walked to a bus to take us to the sled dog kennels. They had to pack 4 Blue Bird Busses to get us to the kennels which was just a two mile jaunt down the main park road. The place ...

... back at base camp, I thanked all the dogs and gave them a big tickle and hug before they were un-harnessed and returned to their kennels and the dogs were very happy and lickey-facey again! nice. I asked a member of staff how she chose which dogs to take ...

... a few wonderful volunteers who support Eleni in keeping the kennels clean, one of whom is my good friend Mary.  I have visited the kennels a few times on my visit to help out with chores and general maintenance but is not for the faint-hearted. ...

... and generally faff around the house! Great welcome for her from her favourite kennel boy Dai, and off she trotted for a play. Kennels very quiet though, only 2 staff working – bad time of year as children back in school, and people cutting back on ...

... that raise approximately 600 Phu Quoc pups per year and one kennel on the mainland that also breeds them.  Supposedly these five kennels are the only sources of Phu Quoc’s in the world because for some reason the dogs do not breed well outside ...

... a bunch of different play areas was very cool and looked a lot nicer than our shelters, at least for the animals.  The kennels were all very large and the entire property was probably bigger than my middle school. The actual tour was only part of our ...