Shoemaker Kennels & Cattery

30/07/2024

Permanent part time position available!
Duties include:
Cleaning and feeding dogs/cats
Dealing with the public
Using a till and card machine
Lifting, carrying and pushing a wheelbarrow unless you can drive a quad
Need to be reasonably fit and able
Brushing, hosing and general tidying
Spoken fluent English essential
Own car needed
Minimum wage applies
Needed am and between 4pm - 5pm
Available Sundays, bank holidays and during Christmas
Cover for any appointments
Able to work alone or part of a team
Work fast and efficiently
All training will be given

It’s not a hard job but can be quite physical, I have 30 kennels, so can be quite noisy first thing in a morning. The business is seasonal so we can be full during the summer and only have a handful during our quieter periods, we never know!

If your interested please get in touch…
Message me here, phone, text or WhatsApp 0868819628 or email at [email protected]

Thanks,
Liz

16/06/2024

Sorry but I have no choice to do this… I’m still a lot cheaper apparently at this rate!
I will now have to charge €15 per dog per night, cats will be €10 per night!
This will start from Monday 17th June.
Bookings already made will be honoured at the old prices.
For a large family of dogs a discount will apply!
If you can, please pay by cash. The credit card fees and monthly payments aren’t helping with the situation, as well as the rise of everything else!
Thanks for your continued support and hopefully your understanding! Sorry again!
Thanks,
Liz

12/06/2024

Hi all, just a gentle reminder!
We work on appointment times and would really appreciate it if you stick to your times. We work around you and wait for you and plan for your kennels to be ready and exercise etc. it also helps if we have appointments of our own. A lot of you know my dad has Alzheimer’s and we have children to juggle as well!
We are here between 9am - 1.30
Between 4pm - 5pm
Where possible!
As I say we try our best to accommodate but it’s not always possible!
Thanks again,
Liz

29/05/2024

Is your dog booked in for boarding this summer? 🐶 🌞 🐶
It's important to ensure your dog is up to date with their kennel cough vaccine along with annual boosters. Please allow at least 21 days for kennel cough vaccine to be effective before boarding. Kennel cough is the most common infectious disease it's a highly contagious disease that can affect dogs of all ages
🐾 Harsh dry cough
🐾 Can be picked up anywhere by contact with an infected dog on a walk, food/water bowls, on hands, in air not just in boarding kennels
🐾 Prevention is better than cure
🐾 Check with your vet to see if your dog is up to date

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

School holidays and summer are on the way!! Not that you would think that today! ☔️☔️
I am getting bookings for the summer, so if you are thinking of heading off, please get in touch as soon as possible! Places are limited already!
Please make sure all annual vaccinations are up to date including kennel cough! Vaccination certificate must me seen!
We are open 9am - 1.30 - 4pm - 5pm
Sundays closed
Bank holidays 9am - 12 noon
We do need specific times for drop off and collection and they must be kept to!

Phone: 0719642257/0868819628
Text: above
WhatsApp: 0868819628
Email: [email protected]
Or send a message here!

Thanks,
Liz 🐾 🐾

16/03/2024

Joining the Leitrim Skydive For Life will help us to save more young lives and save more families from grief and loss. Do something amazing this summer!!

10/03/2024

RIP little Scamp 😢
Scamp has been coming here since I was here so that’s 18 years and his owners had him since 2014!
Scamp was such a lovely dog, so happy to come in, so happy to see you, so easy going! I’m going to miss him so much 💔😢 not nice when you loose your oldie regulars xx🐾

23/02/2024

Here we go again…
18 years ago I took over the kennels!
Thanks again for everyone’s support over the years it really does mean soooo much!
I haven’t been well over the past few months and I’d like to thank Celine my new member of staff who was thrown in at the deep end, my mum who had to struggle with dad and his Alzheimer’s, and of course you, my customers who changed appointments and understood what was going on on while I’ve been in hospital or out of action!
Hopefully things are looking up and I’m starting to get answers and I’m back in action again!
Easter is getting busy so if you’ve any plans, please do get in touch!
Once again thank you all so much ❤️🐾

24/12/2023

Happy Christmas everyone! Hope you have a lovely day tomorrow and thank you for your continued support 🎄🎄🐾

12/12/2023

🎄 🎄 Christmas opening hours 🎄🎄
Please note the days we are closed we are still looking after the dogs/cats but just not open to the public!

Saturday 23rd December 9am - 1.30 / 4pm - 5pm
Sunday 24th December CLOSED Christmas Eve
Monday 25th December CLOSED Christmas Day
Tuesday 26th December CLOSED St Stephen’s Day
Wednesday 27th December 9am - 12 noon
Thursday 28th December 9am - 12 noon
Friday 29th December 9am - 12 noon
Saturday 30th December 9am - 12 noon
Sunday 31st December CLOSED New Year’s Eve
Monday 1st January CLOSED New Year’s Day
Tuesday 2nd January 9am - 1.30 / 4pm - 5pm

Please make sure vaccinations are up to date including kennel cough.
Contact me on 0719642257
Text or WhatsApp on 0868819628
Message me here
Email [email protected]
🎄happy Christmas 🎄
Thanks, Liz 🐾🐾

28/11/2023

I am looking for a permanent part time/flexible person to join me!

Role would include feeding and cleaning dogs/cats.
Able to work fast and efficiently.
Able to work as part of a team as well as unsupervised.
An understanding of dogs/cats and a passion for them.
Good level of spoken English .
Minimum wage applies.

Weekend work, bank holidays and Xmas holidays will be included.

If interested please message me here or email me at [email protected] to discuss further.
Thanks,
Liz

27/06/2023

We are getting lots of bookings in for July, if your thinking of heading away, please get in touch as soon as possible!

Please make sure vaccinations are up to date including kennel cough.

You can call: 0719642257
Call/text/WhatsApp: 0868819628
Leave a message via Facebook
Email: [email protected]
Thanks,
Liz 🐾🐾

14/06/2023

**FOUND**
Please keep an eye out, went missing last night with the thunder

09/06/2023

The summer holidays are just around the corner.
Kennel spaces are filling fast. If your planning on going away please book as soon as possible. Last year we had to turn away bookings!
Please make sure vaccinations are up to date including kennel cough.
You can call: 0719642257
Call/text/WhatsApp: 0868819628
Leave a message via Facebook
Email: [email protected]
Thanks,
Liz 🐾🐾

18/03/2023

Well done Ireland 🇮🇪 🇮🇪🇮🇪!!

08/03/2023

23/02/2023

It’s that time of the year again!
It’s my 17th anniversary of taking over the kennels today! Time is just flying.

We have lost some of our dogs and cats over the years and they are always missed 💔 we still have our regulars who I love ❤️ and we have our newbies who have been amazing 💕

Thank you as always to my customers for your continued support, in the past, now and in the future!

As I always say, if it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t be here!
Thanks, Liz ❤️🐾

09/02/2023

Pay or get paid easily with payment links! Use any card to pay or any bank account to get paid.

04/02/2023

31/12/2022

I would like to wish all my customers a Very Happy New Year!
Thank you for your continued support!
See you in 2023 🎉🐾

23/12/2022

I would like to wish all my customers a Very Happy Christmas! We are now full until the New Year!
Thank you once again for your continued support, without you I wouldn’t be here! Thank you for you’re understanding of the appointment times and how family circumstances have changed due to dad with his Alzheimer’s!
I don’t think kinni will appreciate this photo being used again, (she has a bit of what dad has these days as well 😂🙈)
Happy Christmas everyone!! 🐾🐾🎄🎄

21/12/2022

If you’re running out of ideas for a last minute Christmas gift, don’t forget we have a little shop here at the kennels with homemade items. We have candles, cards, bath bombs, soaps, fairy gardens and a lot more…
Have a look at Shoemaker Arts & Crafts 🐾🎄

05/12/2022

🎄 Christmas opening hours 🎄
We have very limited space left already! Once the space has gone it’s gone!

Saturday 24th December 9am - 12 noon
Sunday 25th December CLOSED
Monday 26th December CLOSED
Tuesday 27th December 9am - 12 noon
Wednesday 28th December 9am - 12 noon
Thursday 29th December 9am - 12 noon
Friday 30th December 9am - 12 noon
Saturday 31st December 9am - 12 noon
Sunday 1st January CLOSED
Monday 2nd January 9am - 12 noon

Appointment times only!
Please double check that your pets are up to date with their annual vaccinations and dogs are vaccinated against kennel cough. Vaccination certificates must be seen.

You can phone on 0719642257
Call, text or WhatsApp on 0868819628
Email [email protected]
Or send me a message here

Thanks, Liz 🐾🎄

21/11/2022

With Christmas🎄just around the corner many pets will be going into boarding kennels or catteries. Just a reminder to check your pets vaccinations and worming is all up to date. If you need us to check this, make appointments for boosters or possibly restarting vaccination courses please phone us on 071 9631043.

30/10/2022

To the di****ad, sorry, neighbour who is setting off fireworks and terrifying my dog and the boarding dogs, get a fu***ng grip!!!
It’s not bonfire night, it’s Halloween! Fireworks are illegal in this country!! Have some respect!!

25/10/2022

Halloween pet safety

Spooky season is upon us and while most of us enjoy all the scary fun our pets might not.
We’d like to remind everyone to look after their animals, and make sure everyone’s kept calm and comfortable this Halloween. Always remember our pet’s senses are far more finely tuned than our own and all the loud noises, and changes in their environment can be quite scary (and not in a good way!). So to ensure a happy Halloween for everyone, here are our top Halloween pet safety tips:

1. Keep sweets and chocolates out of reach – especially important for dogs who are notoriously known to chow down on copious amounts of sweets (including the wrappers!). Both of which can, at best cause serious gastrointestinal distress, and at worst end in poisoning, bowel obstructions, and a very scary trip to the ER.

2. Show ID and stay away from tricks and treats – its best to keep your pets away from all the action at the front door. Pets are easily spooked and may escape if startled: keep them in a separate room with plenty of spaces to hide and their favourite toys etc. maybe turn on the TV/radio to drown out noises and bangs from outside.
In case your pet does escape and get lost, make sure they have a collar with ID tag on and microchip details are all up to date.

3. Beware of scary costumes – while dressing up your pet can be cute and fun, please be sure your pet is happy and comfortable with this – never force them! Also, never leave your pet unattended in their costume as they can panic, get tangled and injured quickly.

4. Scary decorations - Be aware of wires and cords that can be chewed or tangled. Avoid open flames and candles around your pets and never leave them unattended. Avoid decorations that produce loud, startling noises.

5. Calm skittish spirits – if you know your pet reacts very strongly towards all the novel noises and excitement, you may want to consider using special calming supplements and diffusers in the days leading up to Halloween.

Wishing everyone a Happy Halloween, from all at Crowe’s Veterinary Clinic.

16/10/2022

Male collie dog outside the Sheemore Inn, kilclare! Please share

12/10/2022

A lot of you know my dad has Alzheimer’s. he has a hobby of painting stones, pebbles and slate. He’s never been artistic!
He likes to take them to the pub and give them
To anyone who’s interested and explains very passionately about how he paints them etc.
I have wondered whether it’s how he’s feeling in his head at the time and trying to express that? I brought these over before and before I took the photo I turned this particular one over and it says ‘sad dry’ does it mean ‘sad boy’? His reading and writing isn’t like it was!
Anyway, I will leave some of these on the counter in the office, if you would like one or two or three 😂 please help yourself (he has lots), if you would like to make a donation toward Alzheimer’s you can but it’s really not necessary, it keeps dad busy!
Thanks in advance x 🐾

24/09/2022

I’d just like to clarify that the little dog that escaped and was missing for a few days DIDN’T go missing from here!
I have just shared the post in the hope that someone found her, and luckily she has been found and is back home!
Please make sure that your dogs collar is tight enough that they can’t pull out of it and the same with harnesses! I’ve seen it here when people bring their dogs in.
I always use a slip lead when I take them out, just in case their collars are to loose!
If dogs are in a different environment they can get spooked easily!