Hey guys how’s your chill canine so i’m Here by some of our beautiful outdoor Pens and today i’m going to be showing You guys the shield canine kennel i’m Going to be talking about how we keep The dogs how we look after the dogs so On and so forth one thing before we go On our little tour that i want to say There is no dog here at shield canine That ever sleeps outdoors all our dogs Even when they’re outside they’re only Outside to exercise okay All the pens have shade they have Shelter they have water available at all Times but let’s go inside let’s see Where the dogs stay and i’m going to Give you guys a little tour we’re going To talk about how we look after them so On and so forth so come on with me Oh by the way guys that’s the shield Canine van so anytime we’re transferring Dogs or moving dogs around taking dogs To vet whatever whatever we’ve got this Uh van that’s specially designed for That task it’s got crates in it it’s got Air conditioning it’s got everything So we’re gonna go into the training room This is our training room if you’ve ever Trained here with us you’ve probably Been in here so you know that this is The training area in indoor training Area we have a lot of outdoor space as Well i’m going to take you to the kennel Word to the wise it may be a little
Noisy so bear with me we got some noisy Dogs All right guys i’m going to show you the Kennel As you can see All these are the indoor outdoor runs on This side all the runs are equipped with A karana dog bed and a water bucket and Then of course we feed them twice daily Here And so this is our feed room over here You can see we keep all the dogs food There uh generally all the dogs that Come and stay with us have their own Food we also have raw food and all our Personal dogs eat royal cannon in case You’re wondering So This is one of our bigger runs The dog you can hear growling in one of Our little behavior cases Not the friendliest But as you can see we keep all the dogs Separately For obvious reasons Safety first every dog is separate no Dog is kept with another dog You can see All the runs here And one of our lovely kennel techs ivy Ivy is one of our full-time kennel techs We have full-time kennel techs that work Here we uh usually run two kennel texas Shift at times we’ll have even three or
Four and literally their only job is to Look after the dogs and look after uh All the uh the various uh you know Cleaning and maintenance duties that are Involved in running a kennel so actually We’re very overstaffed for how many dogs We keep it’s very important to us that The dogs be constantly clean constantly Looked after constantly fed so on and so Forth i’m going to take you guys outside Adjusting there we go Okay so this is sorry guys you may have Noticed that the there was a bit of a Blip there the camera didn’t adjust very Well so give me a second here okay so This is our Our outdoor exercise runs so all the Dogs that are in indoor only runs get Let out into these runs you’ll notice That there’s pea gravel And three-quarter clear gravel On all the runs so all the runs are Hosed down daily and we use a bleach Solution on all the runs to ensure that They’re constantly in a state of being Disinfected we got the shade cloth on Top of these runs so any dogs that are Out here plus we got the natural shade There any dogs that are out here are not Exposed to Undue amounts of direct sunlight so for The indoor outdoor runs this is where They all come out um and these are 10 By five outdoor runs so the if we lift
Up the guillotine doors the dogs can all Come out and um again you’ll see that we Use the the rounded the round stone Gravel here again just to keep the dogs From standing in any standing water um And uh to be able to constantly keep the Ground disinfected and the chain link Disinfected so that’s kind of a a quick Tour of our kennel now what i’m going to Do guys i’m going to take you outside to The training field Now Let’s open this This is our training field here One of our training fields okay and um This is where we do a lot of the Training we do a lot of the training Outside in this uh in this field and um You know we also train inside like i Talked to you guys about earlier so i Just wanted to give you guys a quick Quick outlook on how we keep the dogs Like i said we literally have people Whose only job it is is to look after The dogs Clean them feed them so on and so forth For those of you wondering we use bleach Solution and we also tr um we also use Prevail so prevail is a a disinfectant Meant specifically for kennels um and It’s one of those disinfectants that’s Very safe to use um and it’s very Effective at killing like 99.9 of Pathogens and then we also use like i
Said the bleach bleach solution so Diluted bleach of course as well For the stuff that maybe the prevail Didn’t catch so Um one thing too we run a central air System and our central air system what We did was we just upgraded we added a Uv light Inside the central air system so now um All the air in there is constantly being Run under a uv light so it’s going to Constantly be disinfected on a regular Basis so i just wanted to give you guys A quick outlook as to how we looked After the dogs how we kept the dogs so On and so forth um so that you can know How your dog will be kept when he or she Uh remain comes to stay with us here at Shield k9 one other thing i wanted you Guys to know is there’s no dog that is Allowed to come here that has not been Vaccinated against rabies and bordetella We take the health and safety of all the Dogs here seriously um you know any dog That we see that comes in that looks Like it’s sick we’ll immediately send That dog home we do our very best to Maintain the health safety and security Of all the dogs that come and stay with Us anyways guys thanks for watching i Just wanted you to know what it would be Like for your dog if he or she came and Stayed with us here at shield k9 it is July end of july 2022 just so that you
Guys know when this video was filmed and We’re actually building a brand spanking New facility um for training it’s going To be 7 200 square foot and it’s going To be just in the back over there so i Look forward to being able to show you Guys that as well