Pets...

[joplinmouse]

Anybody ever have to bring their dog with them? Do you stay offsite or use the kennels at the parks? If so, how was your experience with the kennels?

 

[Laura's Dad]

There are no longer kennels in the parks. There is a kennel/boarding combination across from the Port Orleans resorts on Bonnett Creek Parkway. It is called Best Friends Pet Care. Their website is www.bestfriendspetcare.com

 

[L&Lfan]

I remember when the kennel was sponsored by Kal Kan at Disneyland. (I'm old.) Not sure who sponsored it at Walt Disney World but Ken-L Ration seems to stick in my head. As a family we never used it as we used to board our dog at home. Now my boyfriend and I are pet free and we love the freedom! I'm sure Best Friends is a great place, though.

 

[HarleenQ]

We've used Best Friends. We don't board often, but BF is by far and away our favorite boarding facility we've used.

 

[AngiTN]

Best Friends. Only at Disney can you get a turn down service for your dog's boarding

 

[wilkeliza]

Also note you would have to overnight board them unless you are staying at the camp grounds. Pets are not allowed at the Disney resorts in the rooms. Best Friends is a great option but just know for some dogs their parents coming and going from their boarding can be very stressful for them. I can't do it with my older dog. If I leave her somewhere I have to leave her there until it is pick up time or she will get even more anxious and panicky.

If you want to have your pet with you at night but leave them for dogie day camp during the day that is an option at some off site hotels and rental homes. It really will depend on what you and your pet will be most comfortable with.

 

[Kevin355]

Also note you would have to overnight board them unless you are staying at the camp grounds. Pets are not allowed at the Disney resorts in the rooms. Best Friends is a great option but just know for some dogs their parents coming and going from their boarding can be very stressful for them. I can't do it with my older dog. If I leave her somewhere I have to leave her there until it is pick up time or she will get even more anxious and panicky.

If you want to have your pet with you at night but leave them for dogie day camp during the day that is an option at some off site hotels and rental homes. It really will depend on what you and your pet will be most comfortable with.

Taking my dog to my hunting partner's farm tomorrow for our trip. My dog would freak out if we visited her everyday and then put in a shelter again for a day at a time. At least at the farm, she can chase the goats and the chickens and sleep for 3 solid days after we pick her back up.

 

[AngiTN]

Also note you would have to overnight board them unless you are staying at the camp grounds. Pets are not allowed at the Disney resorts in the rooms. Best Friends is a great option but just know for some dogs their parents coming and going from their boarding can be very stressful for them. I can't do it with my older dog. If I leave her somewhere I have to leave her there until it is pick up time or she will get even more anxious and panicky.

If you want to have your pet with you at night but leave them for dogie day camp during the day that is an option at some off site hotels and rental homes. It really will depend on what you and your pet will be most comfortable with.

Except for "service" animals, and they are letting folks use that term in the loosest of manners. Just like in the parks
Guests next to us at BWI this last February had a Yorkie Service Dog in their room. Yapped it's fool head off each time they opened the door. They had it out on the balcony too. Thankfully, it either stopped when they entered the room or you couldn't hear through the walls. Any way, hotel staff knew it was there, I saw them in the hall and know without a shadow of a doubt they heard it when they opened their door.

 

[wilkeliza]

Except for "service" animals, and they are letting folks use that term in the loosest of manners. Just like in the parks
Guests next to us at BWI this last February had a Yorkie Service Dog in their room. Yapped it's fool head off each time they opened the door. They had it out on the balcony too. Thankfully, it either stopped when they entered the room or you couldn't hear through the walls. Any way, hotel staff knew it was there, I saw them in the hall and know without a shadow of a doubt they heard it when they opened their door.

Pets and "service animals" are different. Yes people abuse what a service animal is to be able to get their pets into the hotels or perhaps that yappy yorkie was a service dog but like I said Pets are not allowed. I would imagine if the OP is asking about boarding options they are not the type that would pass off their pet as a service animal.

 

[MichiganKris]

I used The Dog MaHall when I had to board a dog while we were at Disney. It was about 30 minutes from Disney World, and my dog had a great time there. He didn't even see us and was climbing into the receptionists arms while we were paying. I would not hesitate to use them again. Best Friends was full at that time so I had to find other accommodations.

 

[mom2my3kids]

Also note you would have to overnight board them unless you are staying at the camp grounds. Pets are not allowed at the Disney resorts in the rooms. Best Friends is a great option but just know for some dogs their parents coming and going from their boarding can be very stressful for them. I can't do it with my older dog. If I leave her somewhere I have to leave her there until it is pick up time or she will get even more anxious and panicky.

If you want to have your pet with you at night but leave them for dogie day camp during the day that is an option at some off site hotels and rental homes. It really will depend on what you and your pet will be most comfortable with.

Its so hard..we have a Pomeranian and he is like our little baby, we usually have a friend stay at our house so he can be in his own home..but he still is not quite himself when we are away..

 

[wilkeliza]

Its so hard..we have a Pomeranian and he is like our little baby, we usually have a friend stay at our house so he can be in his own home..but he still is not quite himself when we are away..

That's our oldest mix. She is a rescue dog and we believe she is afraid we have left her for good. I think she must have had an original owner because she was found and taken to a shelter at roughly 1 to 1.5 years old and most street pups don't make it that long. Either her owner abandoned her at the shelter or on the street her backstory was kind of lost in the high kill shelter her and her brother were pulled from. She is so happy to see us when she comes back but the sitter always says she spends most of our trips on our bed and only comes out for treats. Now the puppy on the other hand, we have been leaving him since just a couple weeks after we got him so he'll jump in his bag and expect to go to day care. He loves the boarding place we take him to and will pull me there on walks.

 

[BabyFu18]

Also be aware that if your pet has issues with fireworks Disney's boarding facility might not be the best option since I'm guessing the dogs would be able to hear fireworks throughout their stay.

Our dog is also a rescue and he absolutely hates it when we leave him, but it's much easier on him (and us) to say goodbye at the boarding facility at home than to see him for a small amount of time everyday at WDW because that'll just upset his anxiety when we have to leave him every night.

So we board our dog at our vets office, he gets the VIP treatment there (literally they have VIP suites), he has a big room with his own TV, window, Dutch door, and sweet decor that they decorate the rooms with (princess theme, cowboy theme, etc.) they even send us a picture everyday and let us know how he's doing. We take all his bedding, toys, bowls, etc. from home to make it seem as close to home as possible.

I will say, with our previous dog we stayed offsite (this was years and years ago) and used the boarding facility at Disney (that I think is now the lost and found). We would drop him off in the morning, come out of the park midday to walk him and then return to pick him up in the evening and go back to our offsite hotel. Something like that could still be an option at the best friends kennel, where you could stay offsite (or maybe on the camp grounds...not sure about that) and just board your pet during the day but have him with you at night if that's something you wanted to do.

It is so hard to leave our pets sometimes so I understand wanting to take them with you if possible, but in the grand scheme of things taking them with you isn't always the easiest or best way to go, it just depends on how your pet does with boarding and if they have anxiety issues and whatnot.

Good luck in deciding what to do with your sweet pet!

 

[Kevin355]

That's our oldest mix. She is a rescue dog and we believe she is afraid we have left her for good. I think she must have had an original owner because she was found and taken to a shelter at roughly 1 to 1.5 years old and most street pups don't make it that long. Either her owner abandoned her at the shelter or on the street her backstory was kind of lost in the high kill shelter her and her brother were pulled from. She is so happy to see us when she comes back but the sitter always says she spends most of our trips on our bed and only comes out for treats. Now the puppy on the other hand, we have been leaving him since just a couple weeks after we got him so he'll jump in his bag and expect to go to day care. He loves the boarding place we take him to and will pull me there on walks.

Had a rescue miniature poodle...she was a great dog. The husband of the family that we got her from beat the heck out of her. Was told that she would never go to males...she slept with me on my pillow until last year, when we finally put her down.

As for dogs...just took our other miniature poodle out to the farm today...she was chasing the chickens as I left. It is harder to leave pets behind than kids.

 

[AngiTN]

Also note you would have to overnight board them unless you are staying at the camp grounds. Pets are not allowed at the Disney resorts in the rooms. Best Friends is a great option but just know for some dogs their parents coming and going from their boarding can be very stressful for them. I can't do it with my older dog. If I leave her somewhere I have to leave her there until it is pick up time or she will get even more anxious and panicky.

If you want to have your pet with you at night but leave them for dogie day camp during the day that is an option at some off site hotels and rental homes. It really will depend on what you and your pet will be most comfortable with.

I'm curious by this comment. Do you have to come and go if you use Best Friends? Do you not just drop them for the entire time?

 

[AngiTN]

wrong thread

 

[BabyFu18]

I'm curious by this comment. Do you have to come and go if you use Best Friends? Do you not just drop them for the entire time?

I'm sure you don't have to come and visit your pet if you board them there, but I would think one of the biggest draws to boarding your pet on Disney property would be the ability to go see your pet if you wanted to, to take them on walks, play with them, etc. if you wanted to.

 

[wilkeliza]

I'm curious by this comment. Do you have to come and go if you use Best Friends? Do you not just drop them for the entire time?

You don't have to but it is an option they offer. People who bring their pets if flying usually want to play and cuddle with them. Best Friends allows you to do so during regular operating hours but if it becomes an issue for the dogs they can request you no longer come. I figure if you are dropping your dog off and not coming back until the last day it is probably better to find a place closer to home unless of course your a semi-local or driving and Best Friend is the best option for you.

 

[bumbershoot]

Except for "service" animals, and they are letting folks use that term in the loosest of manners. Just like in the parks
Guests next to us at BWI this last February had a Yorkie Service Dog in their room. Yapped it's fool head off each time they opened the door. They had it out on the balcony too. Thankfully, it either stopped when they entered the room or you couldn't hear through the walls. Any way, hotel staff knew it was there, I saw them in the hall and know without a shadow of a doubt they heard it when they opened their door.

None of that tells me the dog wasn't a service animal.

Service dogs aren't just the perfectly trained seeing eye dogs etc. They can be dogs that happen to sense seizures or blood sugar changes well before the human will sense them, and that is the job they do for the person. (the person can stop the car safely or sit down on the ground, etc before a seizure...or do something for their blood sugar before things go wonky*)

And they don't have to be quiet or perfectly behaved, or anything that we expect from the TV version of a service dog, in order to be a service dog.

Even though we were forced out of a comfortable apartment because of two very obvious NOT service dogs (it's hard to sense a seizure if you are NEVER with your owner), I choose to believe that animals are service dogs if that's what people are calling them.

 

[AngiTN]

None of that tells me the dog wasn't a service animal.

Service dogs aren't just the perfectly trained seeing eye dogs etc. They can be dogs that happen to sense seizures or blood sugar changes well before the human will sense them, and that is the job they do for the person. (the person can stop the car safely or sit down on the ground, etc before a seizure...or do something for their blood sugar before things go wonky*)

And they don't have to be quiet or perfectly behaved, or anything that we expect from the TV version of a service dog, in order to be a service dog.

Even though we were forced out of a comfortable apartment because of two very obvious NOT service dogs (it's hard to sense a seizure if you are NEVER with your owner), I choose to believe that animals are service dogs if that's what people are calling them.

You have much better faith in people than I do.
I fully realize that any animal CAN be a service animal and that many of them provide a service that is for a condition that is not obvious.
But you know darn well that a vast majority of the pocket pets that are getting that certification these days are buying that certification online and are NOT trained as proper service animals.
It is going to create new rules, just like the abuse of the old DAS policy forced Disney in to new rules. This one is going to stretch beyond Disney though.
No idea what it will be but something needs to be done to address the "service animal certificate mills"