Kennel Cough Protocols

RE: Kennel Cough Protocols

Saskia Quinn — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:19:35 GMT

As KC airborne this is a difficult one! We ask owners to keep dogs outside then take them through side door. Though i know side door not always an option. Would be interesting to hear what other practices do.

RE: Kennel Cough Protocols

Sal the 1st — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:49:26 GMT

[quote user="bumble bee"]

We also need to educated clients that this is not just a kennel cough but can be caught anywhere. Training classes, the park.etc.

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definitely - I would say only about a 1/3 of our cases had actually been in kennels

RE: Kennel Cough Protocols

Ben Ogden — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:15:26 GMT

[quote user="bumble bee"]

We also need to educated clients that this is not just a kennel cough but can be caught anywhere. Training classes, the park.etc.

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I've been referring to it as anywhere dogs go cough

RE: Kennel Cough Protocols

bumble bee — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:45:59 GMT

We also need to educated clients that this is not just a kennel cough but can be caught anywhere. Training classes, the park.etc.

RE: Kennel Cough Protocols

Robyn — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:10:14 GMT

We get them to wait until we're ready also, but we don't have a separate door so everyone comes through reception and it's not terribly big, hence why I'm a bit paranoid! That's fab though, thank you so much!

Haha, we had that too Sal, you wonder what goes through people's heads sometimes...or doesn't, really.

RE: Kennel Cough Protocols

Sal the 1st — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:32:42 GMT

if its daylight and a trustworthy dog/big dog we see them in the car. Alternatively they wait in the car and are seen at the very end of surgery. We saw quite a few cases in the lead up to Christmas but thankfully is tailing off now. We still had people putting dogs into kennels before christmas leaving it till the very last minute to get them vaccinated tho

RE: Kennel Cough Protocols

bumble bee — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:12:30 GMT

We normally ask the client to wait in the car with the dog before their appointment.We then bring them in to the rear of the building which bypasses reception. Because it is airbourne your normal cleaning protocol should be adequate.