09/10/2025
A window to our Wednesdays here at Canine Retreat. 🍃🐾
I am seeing a growing trend of dogs being rejected from daycare for crazy reasons. I hear of them through others I know in the industry who will take dogs deemed unsuitable by other services. The strange this to us is that these dogs, way more often than not, are normal dogs that dont have an issue in our services. They are dogs that given the chance thrive in a daycare setting and become solid and positive contributions to their daycare packs.
This video shows the reality of daycare and socialisation services in the sense that working dogs always comes back to one thing, management. Most dog training is... management. Dogs dont have the capacity to understand our human values and wants and needs of them. Its upto us to teach them what our expectations are and what behaviour is or isn't acceptable in our services. (This is true in the day to day lives of dogs as well and all that they do)
Putting dogs together and just expecting them to work it out will always end the same way, badly. We need to step up to our responsibility to them and we need to lead them. To shepherd them. To protect them... often from themselves and their own desires. When a shepherd gaurds, or a collie herds and nips, or a bull breed fights, its not the dogs failing, its us. Its js failing to accept our place and failing to honor the dogs we created to do exactly these things. 💥
