After a great weekend of hanging out and going into San Francisco, I was more then happy to get back to work today! I'm really bummed this is my last week, it all went by so fast and I have learned so much!
I arrived at 8:00am and was quickly sent out to scoop/accel/wash kennel runs. I finished that rather quickly, I am getting used to the routine and know what to do when. Each kennel has weekly and monthly duties and today all the cabinets and drawers needed to be cleaned out and organized & wash the goggles. It was fun getting to go through all the cabinets/drawers, seeing really where everything was and goes. That took me a quick 15 min to do, and then I learned how to really do quiet work with the dogs. Quiet work is walking up and down the kennel hallways telling the dogs "no" or "quiet" to get them to stop barking and we can also use citronella collars if needed, but once most the dogs figured out I had food and was rewarding them for being quiet they quickly caught on to the verbal commands. I got to do quiet work for a good 30 min while the instructors loaded their dogs up for the morning.
I took a quick 10 min break then came back, found my mentor and we did community run with all the new dogs. This was really fun because we had to bring out 2-3 dogs at a time and introduce them or single them out in the center run. Eventually we got all 18 dogs out and let them run around and exercise. They all did very well together and only a few caused trouble. They were all put away and I ran down to the vet clinic to look for meds for K2, and there was one there so I signed for it and headed back to write it on the meds board and make a box for it in the meds cabinet.
More quiet work was needed while all the dogs were coming back from their morning route, so I did quiet work with them till all the dogs were in. Kennel enrichment was on the agenda next, so enrichment was handed to all the dogs, then it was lunch time!
Lunch flew by, and before I knew it I was walking back to K3 to help with vet checks. Vet checks consisted of: getting the dogs out, grooming them, and making sure they had no weird bumps, scabs, etc on them. After we did the vet checks on 2 dogs we took them for a quick campus walk. After the walk, I headed over to K2 to find my mentor and we took dogs to the training office (for stress relief) and came back and collected/cleaned/refilled the enrichment. It was now my break time!
After break, I helped feed all the dogs and collected their bowls and washed them. After dinner we give the dogs roughly 15 min to "do their business" then we lock them in and scoop/spray their runs. We were short staffed yesterday so I got the pleasure of scooping/spraying out all 4 quads in K2 (each kennel has 4 quads). It didn't take as long as I thought and I came back in and was told 2 dogs were CC'd so I made CC tags for their kennels so they could be moved to K3 and adopted out. Since all the cleaning was done in all 3 kennels I got to go home a little early, which is always a bonus!
~Katlynn
4 comments:
Aww - you scooped my dog's poo! At least I assume he's still in 225, where I left him Sunday. Somehow, I got through recall tearless, but reading that you are scooping his poo sets off the waterworks! Thanks for scooping his poo :-)
Yes Scooter! I saw your blog and read about scooter! He's still in kennel 2 but I'm not sure if he's in 225 I'll have to look tomorrow! But he's doing really well and is enjoying his time at GDB especially kennel enrichment and community run!
I bet kennel enrichment is his favorite! :) We actually had a bunch of dogs from our group in K2 on Sunday - Julep, Loire and possibly Angeline (she was turned in later that Scoot). Give him a big hug for me. We miss his squishy face!
Yes! All those girls I have seen and are doing very well!! I actually went out with Loire and her trainer and got to see her work!!
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