Kennel Returns Dogs to Wrong Owners

[happylabs]

Exactly! What, the dogs didn't have collars on? Or did the kennel get those mixed up too?
I am so glad my dogs are very distinctive in their features. I would be so upset if this happened to me.

Yes! I didn't even think about that when I posted this. You would think they surely would have had their own collars on. I only boarded Casey once when she was about a year old. She came home smelling like urine and had a couple scratches on her. I never boarded her again. I got my brother to keep her when we went on vacation.

[Taz_Zoee]

Yes! I didn't even think about that when I posted this. You would think they surely would have had their own collars on. I only boarded Casey once when she was about a year old. She came home smelling like urine and had a couple scratches on her. I never boarded her again. I got my brother to keep her when we went on vacation.

I had to put Zoee in a day care for two days when she was younger and Bruce was out of town. She didn't eat, drink or potty the entire time and she drooled buckets. She does the same thing at the groomers, but that's not very often. I've never put her in a kennel since. My brother also watches them when we go out of town. And if they can't my mom does.

[pomtzu]

It's pretty bad when a vet does this..........

My son had taken his cat to be neutered. When he went to pick him up, they brought the cat out in his carrier. My son took him home and put the carrier in the bedroom and opened the door to let kitty come out on his own. A short time later he went in to check on him - he was out of the carrier, but hiding somewhere. He and his wife called and looked for him, but he wouldn't come out of hiding, so they let him be, not wanting to stress him out any more than he already was from his day at the vet. Finally a little later they decided they really needed to find him to make sure he was okay. Found him hiding under the bed. Problem was - it wasn't his cat - looked very similar - but not his.

Panic time - quick call to the vet. His cat had been picked up by the owner of the cat that was now in his possession. After a few phone calls, the problem was taken care of, and both parties were reunited with the proper cat.

Needless to see - my son found a new vet after that fiasco.

[Casper]

How in the world...?!

I have worked at a kennel (cleaning the runs and exercising the dogs) where we had multiple labs boarding at once. At one time we had three black labs --all similar size and build-- boarded at once, and it only took me a day to learn how to tell them all apart. Its just unfathomable that this could happen....

I, too, am glad all of my dogs have distinctive looks about them.