about peterson lake park and how long have you been there oh i've been there all my life well since sixty three we moved there in sixty three but i've been forty dogs since one thousand nine hundred eighty so this is your old family farm yes a lot of and she had a three run kennel in a bit and i helped building on the farm and in one thousand eighty i decided i wanted she had since quit showing the breeding dogs and i decided that i wanted to open a boarding kennel because i saw a need for it back then there weren't too many in the area not like today that so i took it from there early expanded a little bit and been doing it ever since and you have rabies weasely say well yeah that's a state that the state does require me to do that i'm inspected twice a year by the foreman of agriculture and they do look at my records but the rabies and then distemper and then i also require the vaccination for board to tell over kennel cough and that's pretty much standard in the industry and i write yeah most i think reputable canales do require that so if i can provide you with documentation you're not accepting my dog i will not accept dog without vaccination program i mean if you come in you forget the papers and it's during business hours i'll call the vet and get you know bill though confirm the vaccinations but yeah i don't allow any dog in there without vaccination that's kennel cough is more of a nuisance than anything it is guess young very young dogs a very old dog but your you know healthy middle aged young dog it's very it's  news since they they hack in they hack for about a month and a half and you know it's an upper respiratory thing but it's very contagious yes it is and yeah i knock on wood been i've never had it in my candle and i know i'm a lot of places haven't if i would i'm told i'd have to really close down for about a month to get the virus out of there because it just spreads from dog to dog above it all right so  minimum stay no no i you know one day i boarded dogs one day to like i was a year you know i have you had a dog for a year had a dog for a year suddenly seems like it should have been your dog after it almost became my  new england and he thought the house would be done in three months well construction can happen and it took a long time and  dog was actually his dog was nine months old when i boarded him i think it had been for three or four months and you know what i have a dog there and i have aborted other dogs along three four months when when that happens you you know you do a little extra i mean i take a care all the dogs and i walk all the dogs but this dog i actually have a fenced in area i let him run and he became very attached to me and very protective of me and after a year i was afraid that we break picked him up that maybe he wouldn't be so receptive to his owner but the funny thing is when he got there the dog and memory and oh it went not print i mean i  forget me i don't think anyone has a go so you're not a doggie daycare basically you know what if you could bring them in between my ass hours i could do it but i don't do some of the day camps are open really early and open til really late but i yeah boredom i like i have no minimum stay or anything so these are usually people that need to drop and have an inventor a vacation a charity and so usually at minimum you know two three days too old you know  ok there's a cage on the inside of the can all which is four by eight and ceiling height and that there's a gate called a guillotine gate which i know sounds horrible but it slides up and down so i can close them in or close them out when i'm cleaning but that leads out and do a twelve by six foot high chain link individual outside cages travel that mixing with the other dogs the other on open space no i don't you know what i know there are places that do that but i wouldn't do around of the main chased by a pit bull well you know i like pit bulls no right you know exactly no i understand because you know a dog like that or any big dog can really hurt a little dog although i know a lot of these places segregate them by size but i know it's a nasty little i you know i was going to years ago when i was showing dogs they had two wire minis in a crate together and the one killed the other one i mean just bit of rights and you know but i mean yeah little dogs and like i said i want your dog to come home in the same shape it came in and they're animals as much as we love them you know they have they aren't wired like we are and you know what i remember years ago i boarded a lab mix for a friend of mine's mother and she was retired and went away a lot this dog was there from when she was a puppy till actually too late to put her down when she was like thirteen i knew this dog real well you know she was a dog i actually thought well you could probably you know she could do play times or whatever but she was such a complex that yeah right and i really did but you know i put a bashar next to her when she's about ten years old that if she could have got through the wire i know she would have killed this dog i mean she went absolutely berserk so you know as much as you think you know um yeah they're not human they are not human they're here in a game and some humans aren't human but you know they have a different mindset than we do and you know sometimes we kind of feel that they are you know you know you're is like my children my dog understand it but they're not you know they are you know they are not people and yet they're you know they like i said for some reason to dog you know i guess like two one i could really think of was i boarded a dog one time and a woman older woman called and it was an older dog is a little mix probably thirty pounds and as her son was going to bring the dog to drop it off and when he did speared this big burly biker guys you know leather and he look like a real biker you know beard long hair and all your heart they do and you know if i didn't understand that i'd be in the wrong bed and that that does happen but i do find on asli it's usually much more traumatic for the owner and dog ninety nine percent of the dogs like bored on people bring like tranquilizer itself that if we're going to storm or something make sure you give in the tranquilizers and honestly i usually don't because one by the time you get in the tranquilizer the store and but tommy kicks in the storms over and then you've got a dog is one story but on the other into honestly and i'm sure it's true there house that the dog goes berserk during a storm but i think being around all the other dogs they're usually fin i'm out kind of what i can what i've determined over the years as when i would have a kid in my charity office yet it was the parents are making the given the child a title not a childhood analogy and i found it with dogs as well yet my dog won't eat that well how do you know your dog wanted it well i know he wanted it was right oh he likes you know i mean they're transferring there there are so under the animal i wish i had a nickel for every person that said to me well he won't eat and on asli and i use around dogs with other dogs they usually eat very well and i always say well he does i always hear that if he doesn't eat i'll find something it doesn't and i have had a handful like that but most of them eat like those say i leave food out all the time if i did that to these dogs they would eat all the time because of the other dog do your clients bring their own food and they can i do have house food i have but got professional which is i feed my own dogs and i have treated one lamb rice i stock but i most people do bring their own for anymore you know years ago in the early eighties i just tried to stock every dog food and you pretty much could but any more there are so many different  injection i don't charge for that by the way i charge fifteen dollars a day for any dog that's the price per day if it's injected into the twenty four hour period you named yeah yeah yeah if it's  injections i do charge five dollars because that's a little more working a little more but for pills if it's twice a day i don't charge of it's three times a day i do because i make sure i'm there i do it you know if they if they get pills twice a day i give it to him at seven in the morning and seven a night i mean i'm pretty good i try to be really good about that so if you have like a lights out at certain time the lights are out and you know what i let the dogs out at seven because i get up very early but i do that to keep my neighbors somewhat happy and i close the kennel when i go to sleep before i go to bed and you know so they're usually you know all day long weather permitting the runs are open all day long when the weather is nasty i let them out at but to be honest with the other then you get this rare exceptions dogs that aren't real clean most of the dogs they come clean they leave clean because i keep i keep my kennel very clean i disinfect the runs after every dog leaves and i don't all want to lee regardless so you know once in a while you know what if if if a dog really does get dirty i will give it a bath and i don't charge for that you know but honestly ninety nine percent of  it's fun plus i pick my runs you know when they go to the bathroom as needed i don't just do it like once or twice a day from walking past their you know pick the wrong yeah if be one but i don't you know one thing i will comment on is you know the pit bull thing i board a number of pitfalls and in fact i own one obviously she's a rescue dog but  i've never had a problem with a pit bull i've never had one that was mean of course the ones i bought are carting crakow so yeah but my friends the hood acts have a pit bull that's our it's just super dog right that's always super the powerful oh yeah and ok it's easy no problem i have you know and i hate the allied i'll just say it cocker spaniels and springer spaniel so i've seen some of them can be be funny as far as biting  alright yeah yeah and i think anybody that owns one or has had a number of them will tell you a story like that too and i think you know what any dog that you should approach with a little bit of caution oh absolutely because you know especially if under different situations act you know and  you can't startle a dog that's when they you know they become afraid and react loosely cell so you're saying those are little nippier i'll tell you what i i've been bit probably seven those seven six of them were dogs under ten pounds and go to docs in the came in not one of mine by the way no no no it was not what are yours this is a number of years ago and when she came in you know when they're scared or if they're even aggressive i just kind of ignore him for awhile you know i don't mess with them i'll just leave them in the run and i don't but this dog was in the corner just shaken and she had been like that from the morning and i was getting ready to close the kennel and i thought she's really scared and she's a little squeak toy and when i thought well i'll get her squeaky toy and squeak it maybe she will you know relax or at least want to play when i want to grab a squeak toy she was like a cobra it took the top of my knuckle right off but a you know they have a little tape but they never got around never did was he a get in the corner one minute next minute so you know you have to approach any dog especially if they're scared well and here's a good example i you know i've been around dogs my whole life and fact i had when i was a child friends  parents had a german shepherd whom all the there put all you know they were afraid to go in and get the portal and get the short term a shepherd they called me to do what the dog came right to me yeah you know the shepherd yeah yeah but i got and it was nasty but i think about it was the dog was frayed yeah you know it was in it that's usually on the road about you is when they're scared didn't know me you know and here i am grabbing it basically you know but i but i learned a lesson and then i merely kept up the collar and and you know lead in the cars and that way you know if it ever happened again yeah that was going around my hand you have to be careful yeah i see something like that or if they're injured or even you know a dog fight you never want to put your name in the middle of an order now because they don't know how they're very measured as right there you know i had i when i was reading cho in dogs i had a bull mastiff and he was a wonderful dog but he was funny about food with other dogs and when i was feeding him my ex had a brittany that tucked underneath me and went right in his crate and when i went to grab the food bowl he are fire than other breeds you know what i hear years it seems we have the most personality of a lot of dogs but no you know it's they all have their you know they're like people is they're they're very intelligent and you know intelligence and obedience are some of the dumbest dog or the most to be in here in my in my opinion and the smart ones although if you work with them they can be incredibly high energy and jump like to like up here there are a lot of dogs in a small pack yeah and they don't fear much well they're bred you know to kill things have you had dogs that like set off the whole  happen that can happen is a must a kind of a barking type yes it's all barking and there's some little more barking and others you know but you know usually they calm down or you know if they bark too much i just don't bark boredom again aboard a dog once yeah but for the most part they acclimate you know when you drop them off they do carry on and usually when you get there take them out i had a guy one time said how can you stand him and his dog was like dog whining crying barking and they pull up the drive and they go and they lay down and that's what his dog did that he thought the dog carried on like that the whole time yeah he was far from it i think and probably initially when the first time they come they don't know what's happening  the facility that it runs out and goes with it are to lose it this isn't a sales pitch at all but most of them i mean they don't even have to come all the time but the few times a year they come as happy as they leave and so it's people to drag them in there because you know they're pack animals they like being around other dogs fact i think and this is my opinion of course but you know having somebody come in and let the dog out can be very traumatic to the dog too because you're its pack yeah and you know you're not there well i pay i boarded two dogs for years but one was a springer that was not friendly so they couldn't have anybody come in the house i mean i got along with her but only after born or for of couple time and the other dog was a mix it was just a lovely dog well when the springer died they decided to will just have the neighbor letter out and she ate their cow you know because she was the first time ever alone in the house and you know that can be really traumatic till so i'll tell you i was always have somebody come to the house and you know i had six dogs right so they're not alone yeah and i had i had either somebody stay or somebody ended up all the time the same person actually the most  part but i would always when i travel get on the phones a how the dogs doing you know everything ok you have people do that oh all the time in fact that's real regular in fact i encourage that yeah you know and then you know if i would i always take one a cell number a number where you're at in case you know i've been doing this a long time and there have been a few times where dog gets sick cyrano had a couple dogs die knock on wood again old dogs but you know i mean that can happen there and you know god i mean they're animals they're they're i had to put him down because he just got really really bad and you know i see that a lot were sometimes people or apprehensive doing that and you know i don't think they're doing it for the dog you know to be keep them alive and it's tough it's tough to say goodbye you know or i mean that isn't the only part i haven't thought then you start questioning you know should i do it should i do it if i do it it might and i'm making a mistake you know i mean that you know i might be and so you turn manning yourself actually in the whole process of it all you know but i think usually if you think it's time it is time you know what i mean because it's is difficult but it's also difficult to see him suffer yeah and especially when they're when the new years no hope when there's no and you know it's fourteen years old to me he was a large dog he had a full you know what i mean and that's just got we wouldn't want to eat that when they stop eating that's usually a sign you know that they're done and that's their way of saying yeah because when you know a dog not to eat exactly and you can have a temporary measure where they're sick where they don't want to eat right but when you're putting out the all the special stuff and they're saying like no yeah that's tough and it goes on for a few days usually i think that's a