Crowe Farm Canines

08/05/2025

Weekend/Holiday Availability for Boarding
•Updated 8/3/25•

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August 8th-10th
Big Kennels - 3 Available
Small Dog Condos - FULL
Cat Condos - 3 Available

August 15th-17th
Big Kennels - 1 Available Starting Sat. AM
Small Dog Condos - 2 Available
Cat Condos - 1 Available

August 22nd-24th
Big Kennels - 5 Available
Small Dog Condos - 1 Available
Cat Condos - 1 Available

🔨August 29th-Sept 1st (Labor Day Weekend, Requires Deposit)
Big Kennels - 2 Available starting Sun. PM.
Small Dog Condos - FULL
Cat Condos - 3 Available

Sept 5th-7th
Big Kennels - 3 Available
Small Dog Condos - 1 Available
Cat Condos - 3 Available

Sept. 12th-14th
Big Kennels - 3 Available
Small Dog Condos - 2 Available
Cat Condos - 3 Available

⚠️~Other Important 2025 Dates~⚠️

November 24th - 29th (Thanksgiving Week, Requires Deposit
Big Kennels - 1 Available All Week
1 Available Starting 26th PM
Small Dog Condos - FULL
Cat Condos - 3 Available

December 24th-28th (Christmas, Requires Deposit)
Big Kennels - 3 Available
Small Dog Condos - 2 Available
Cat Condos - 2 Available

December 31st-Jan 4th (New Years, Requires Deposit)
Big Kennels - 5 Available
Small Dog Condos - 1 Available
Cat Condos - 3 Available

February 13th-22nd 2026 (School Break, Requires Deposit)
Big Kennels - 11 Available
Small Dog Condos - 2 Available
Cat Condos - 3 Available

07/30/2025

06/25/2025

Just another Wednesday at the pool….

06/22/2025

From the pool float

06/16/2025

Second time in the pool! Jae Bird is loving it. She wants to retrieve that toy! Build the toy drive and introduce your puppy to the water while they are small and portable. It makes a difference!

06/09/2025

So true

No shortcuts.

06/01/2025

Attention Puppy People! It is looking like there will be a Puppy Class starting on Saturday mornings at 10. First day should be somewhere June 21 or June 28. We have two puppies (one of them will be our little maniac, JayBird) and are looking for another young puppy or two to round out our class. The puppies will qualify for AKC STAR Puppy certification at the end of the six sessions. Shoot me a message or mail if you might be interested :) Share your with your friends, please.

05/29/2025

05/29/2025

Pet parents, did you know trusted establishments have a limit to how many animals they can house at a certain time in order to stay in county and state compliance?

Did you know businesses could lose said license if they are consistently or egregiously out of compliance?

Please do consider that $20-35 per night is not enough revenue for a business to risk their whole operation. In fact, no amount of money, begging, or pleading, negative reviews is enough for businesses to risk their reputation.

Please consider that more dogs equals more time it takes to get dogs out to potty, clean their kennels, feed them, etc. Many facilities keep a number of dogs that are not dog friendly. This means each dog goes out to potty by himself and ALL the other dogs in the kennel must wait their turn to go out. More dogs means longer wait times.

Please also consider that businesses have the staff that they have. The distribution of work is a certain amount of dogs per staff member. An overbooking of dogs puts a strain on how effectively staff can care for each animal.

Please consider the safety of your animal. Boarding facilities offer spacious and secure kennels to keep dogs clean from their neighbor's accidents and safe from potentially aggressive neighbors. If overbooked, you're asking the facility to utilize containment that is easy to put up and take down. Some of you will even suggest providing a wire crate from home in an attempt to squeeze your dog onto the books. Most dogs can and do escape wire crates in a boarding environment. This is not safe for your dog, the staff, or other client dogs. No, they will not set up a wire crate in the hallway when the permanent kennels are full.

Overbooking is stressful for the staff and the dogs. Overcrowded kennels full of crying and barking dogs puts unecessary stress on all the dogs boarding. Your dog deserves an environment where stress is reasonable and managed.

Lastly, during holiday boarding, staff are missing out on major holidays to take care of client dogs. Many are happy to provide this service, but the sacrifice doesn't come without cost. Kennel techs aren't high paid employees and it's not uncommon for business owners to incentivize staff to work holidays by paying them a bonus. For big companies, this is costly so be prepared to pay additional holiday fees.

Book early for major holidays - I mean 60 days before Thansgiving and Christmas, not the week prior. Have multiple backup plans. Tip your sitters and boarders for the holiday. There's no shortage of boarding facilities and pet sitters who can accomodate you, you just have to plan accordingly.

05/25/2025

This week Jaybird (aka Baby Jay) learned that the big dogs don't take kindly to puppy terrorists and that the good stuff only comes to puppies who deserve it so caption this photo "JayBird in Thought about the UnFairness of Certain Dogs"

I have two adult dogs (6 and 2.5) that are mentally stable and fundamentally sound in mind. Dogs like that don't attack and deliberately hurt puppies but they will correct them.

After Baby Jay woke up one morning and thought "What a fine day to be in my new home! I believe these dogs and humans are my personal play toys" the adult dogs had had enough.

The inmates don't run the asylum in the dog world unless we humans force them to allow it.

So, Nyx took the jumping on her head and grabbing cheeks and hanging on a few times. Let's face it..Nyx could care less about other dogs so she just tried to ignore it. Rarely plays with them or wants to interact and really just wants to do the things she wants to do with me. About the third time JayBird grabbed and held on to her face she laid down the law. Baby Jay is a bold little minx.

I pulled up a chair and sipped my wine. The puppy was gobsmacked. Unbelievable. It did take Nyx several times over the course of the day to make a believer of JayBird but I see a puppy that has a clue now. It sounded awful y'all. It was the equivalent of a pop on the hinney but it got JayBird's attention. I suspect Nyx has some unfulfilled maternal leanings b/c she wasn't very into it but she did get the job done.

Truthfully since Syd is young and frankly, a goober, I was a tad more worried about him and JayBird. Youthful enthusiasm and all.

Turns out pretty much as I expected--education was a whole lot louder and more physical. Baby Jay got rolled a few times with some really nasty growling and posturing over her. Admit that I flinched on the first one as she was yipe, yipe, yipe-ing. I told him that was enough and he left her alone. When she came to me I couldn't even find a wet spot on her. Give her an A+ for commitment because it took him twice to convince her not to grab his butt fur and hang on.

We all went to bed that night soberly and thoughtfully I think.

Every day since has been an improvement in the integration of this puppy. She is calmer and more respectful of not only the dogs but the humans too. Is she aware now that there is a heirarchy and that it will be enforced? I'd say so.

This week I also added a few requirements of my own. For example, she has to sit to be leashed before she can come out of the ex pen or crate and settle when tethered. Failure to be quiet in the ex pen or crate just results in staying there until she is. Now I'm making her earn some of the things she wants. She's still great at the potty thing and got her first real training treats for training--it was boiled chicken bits too! Playing find it. Going to the barn and the duck pen. Will do her first off site trips to our favorite Lowe's Garden Center. Its a big world out there for a little dog!

Since this the internet let me add:
-I have trained, monitored and managed these dogs for years and know their mental and emotional capabilities. If they weren't mentally stable and emotionally able to safely interact with a puppy they would have never been allowed to do so.
-I don't believe in just turning dogs loose to "work it out" or in letting dogs beat up on puppies.
-Puppies have a Golden Puppy Ticket that only lasts so long. If they don't clue in to what is and what isn't appropriate with other dogs there will be trouble. I am old enough to say now that I am too old to court trouble by not setting boundaries for puppies or letting the adult dogs set them.

This week had its ups and downs but it is ending on a good note! If there is any take away from this post for you it might be choose breeders who'll let those puppies stay with Mom 10-11 wks so she can do this sort of thing for you. If you have someone who wants to give you a puppy at 5 weeks they are a lazy loser who just doesn't want to clean up after puppies and you don't want one of their puppies anyway. Going to be trouble down the pike more than likely ;)