Kennel Operations

When a fire or flood is coming, there is no time to work out how to move twelve dogs and a two-week-old litter. Lessons from Katrina, Harvey and the Marshall Fire, and a practical framework for planning transport, destinations, records,…

Thawing ground and spring rain turn runs into mud, and wet, dirty surfaces are where parasites such as giardia and coccidia survive and spread to puppies. How to fix drainage and surfaces, what daily cleaning can and cannot do, why…

Puppy sales are income, and how they are taxed depends on whether your breeding counts as a hobby or a business. How tax authorities in the US, UK, Canada and Australia tell the difference, which records to keep for every…

Knowledge moves in both directions. How to find and use a mentor, how to be a mentee worth the time, and how to become a mentor with clear limits.

Most poisonings come from ordinary things within reach: medications, sugar-free products, flavored chews and rat bait. What the poison-control data show, the risks particular to a kennel and a litter, and what to do in the first minutes.

A contingency plan does not answer whether something will go wrong. It answers who acts, with what information, on the morning you cannot.

Insurance moves a defined part of your risk onto someone else. The part that cannot be moved has to be managed with routines and documentation.

Breeding rarely loses money through carelessness with small sums. It loses money because the rare, expensive outcomes were never in the budget.

Six record templates that cover most of a kennel working life, with the fields that matter and the retention rules that differ by country.

What to document, in what form and for how long — and why the records you keep now are the only raw material breeding evaluation will ever have.

Heatstroke is usually imagined as a dog left in a car. In UK veterinary records, most cases followed exercise. The signs, the first aid that saves lives, and what heat planning looks like in a kennel.