I had noticed that it already was I was just thinking out loud about what the job really requires.

It's a field I almost went into and what I mentioned is the biggest part of why I didn't. My wife is a dog groomer and has been since she was in her late teens or early 20s, I got her her first job where she got trained for it when we were kids because it's where I already worked. Supposedly I was going to be the one working with animals and though I was good with animals I wasn't so much with people. Working with the dogs was great but there's no money in being a kennel worker and a people trainer I'm not.

Construction wasn't nearly as enjoyable but it paid the bills. If I'd had an artistic bone in me maybe I'd have learned what she did but I don't have the eye for it her and others do, and I doubt I'd have enjoyed it as much anyway. No time to pet and handle them on the table like there is in a kennel or training situation, it's all business.

wow, overreact much people?

Its cruel to do it for entertainment, it's necessary evil to do it for a bona-fide reason. Like it or not, sometimes you have to do unpleasant things to someone for their own good.

And BTW maybe you don't have kids but kids who hate being bathed generally don't understand WHY its necessary - like my 4 month old - sometimes she is okay with it, sometimes she protests mightily. Whether its "traumatic" or not, she needs to be bathed occasionally and all the screaming in the world isn't going to make me feel so guilty I'll forego it. By the time they get old enough to understand about hygeine they are usually past the shrieking screaming phase and can wash themselves just fine. I've had two kids who FREAKED about getting bathed until they were about 10 years old. I still made them bathe, as traumatic as it seemed. They appear to be unscathed from those torturous baths and showers I inflicted upon them and seem to enjoy their showers now.


I had to bathe my kitten once on a regular basis because he had some kind of skin infestation (from the shelter I got him from most likely since he's a total indoors cat) and I had to bathe him with a special shampoo - wash it in, leave it on for ten minutes anmake sure he didn't try to lick it off. So there you go: a very important reason for washing my cat that needed to be addressed. YES sometimes a cat needs to be washed.

Frankly I think that spa thing specifically isn't much substitute for hand-washing but if I ran a shelter or kennel or animal hospital I can see how it might come in handy.

What's the difference: Carrying a dog in a kennel on the roof or in the bed of a pickup or in the belly of an airplane?

I know a lot of people that lock their dog up all day while they're at work. I would never do that either, but I wouldn't call it cruel and inhumane.

Kennel that bitch!

Yay!!!! Thanks for letting me have it guys. And a BIG THANKYOU to Youdiejoe for taking care of the kennel

jeeeez, too many pets in the house...kennel smell, pet dander, great place for the little one....those dogs could hurt her just with a wagging tail-Hey folks....if yer watching this...."Do your guests tell you yer home reeks of animals, or are they impolite, or equally as accommodating?

They own the couches, and you leave the house smelly......

My wife and I both have experience with this breed, her as a lifelong dog groomer and me as a kennel worker when we were kids. They can be some very sweet animals and aren't naturally aggressive toward people, the owners even stay in the ring with their animals as they fight.

An animal aggressive toward people was probably abused by them, the other likely cause being inbred or poorly bred and just for the ring. Shepards and Dobermans went through a rough time period too due to poor breeding. Well bred and well treated (pit) Bull Terriers are sweet animals.

The United States is not terribly serious about treating prisons as rehabilitative environments and removing the death penalty won't really affect this side of the issue. There is certainly no political motivation to provide funding to make prisons rehabilitative environments

If you are serious about opposing the death penalty, then to a certain extent you must believe in individual salvation. But I think that removing the possibility of death would be damaging to criminal litigation in the United States. I believe that most anti-DP advocates want a dark, closed, but sterile box where 'the worst of the worst' are kept and a sort of a kennel for the rest of the general prison population. It just doesn't deal with all of the interconnected systemic issues.

funny! I had one basset that lasted from 1987-2003. Penny (RIP) was her name and she had major spinal column surgery when she was about 8 years old. She was very slow and cripply after that for the rest of her life could never jump up on a couch, etc.

Except for ONE day when she saw a rabbit run into the woods here and she bolted off after it like she was another dog. Never underestimate a hound dogs desire for a small, fresh meal. It just about did her in also, just the exertion and the physical recovery afterwards.

My 140 pound bloodhound Jed (RIP) one day came home with an entire dead bunny hanging from his mouth. I told him ~in no uncertain terms~ to get the ghastly thing away from the house. His response? He tilted his head back and ate it. Whole. My wife was standing there watching the event also. This dog was big, a one hamburger - one bite dog. We rescued Jed from a bad situation in Kansas (found him over the Internet) and we had never seen a bloodhound in person before. The Sky Kennel arrived off the plane and the friggin dog got out and was simply gigantic.

I bought a cat from a pound once that looked just like that, steel kennels are the norm.

ironically, it was Harpo..the cat mentioned before that I had put down for him being violent

"This is a documentary made by a french team (not sure who exactly) specifically highlighting WWASPS programs, focusing ... all » on Tranquility Bay but still covering all of them, and the whole industry of similar places (estimated to be roughly a thousand in number) around the USA.

It features video of children tied up in dog kennels in "High Impact" which used to be in mexico, but is thankfully now closed, a secret video of a girl whose clearly broken (if not brainwashed) still in tranquility bay, and an interview of a teenager who was in various WWASPS programs from 12-15 (19 at the time of the interview) who looked as shell shocked as a war veteran.

Its informative, shocking, and something every american should see - a thousand gulags for our children, teenagers and young adults is NOT something anyone should tolerate, and its a good crash course in our "behavior modification" industry. However, unfortunately, the video only glosses over the "seminars" and how they are used to effectively brainwash the people in those programs, and their families."