District Dogs Navy Yard location: puppy shoved/slapped and dies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is awful. Lock the perpetrator up and throw away the key; then shut down this crap.

I take my dog to Petsmart daycare. It doesn’t have all the frills of this type of place but the people are so kind and stay consistent.

A life sentence for killing a dog? No.

[Anonymous]

And District Dogs is about to open a new location in NW DC!!!! Stay away, folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awful. Lock the perpetrator up and throw away the key; then shut down this crap.

I take my dog to Petsmart daycare. It doesn’t have all the frills of this type of place but the people are so kind and stay consistent.

A life sentence for killing a dog? No.

Do you know those who abuse/kill dogs also abuse/kill humans?

https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/the-link-between-animal-cruelty-and-human-violence

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awful. Lock the perpetrator up and throw away the key; then shut down this crap.

I take my dog to Petsmart daycare. It doesn’t have all the frills of this type of place but the people are so kind and stay consistent.

A life sentence for killing a dog? No.

Do you know those who abuse/kill dogs also abuse/kill humans?

https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/the-link-between-animal-cruelty-and-human-violence

Oh yes how about 15 to 20 years for killing the dog? That's fair

[Anonymous]

Why do you think boarding kennels are safer than Rover people with tons of great reviews? I am not being antagonistic but wonder what I'm missing since I've used Rover out of apprehension of boarding places. If I read a couple of scary reviews, I cross them off and most kennels have some bad reviews.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think boarding kennels are safer than Rover people with tons of great reviews? I am not being antagonistic but wonder what I'm missing since I've used Rover out of apprehension of boarding places. If I read a couple of scary reviews, I cross them off and most kennels have some bad reviews.

Blame the kennel who hired that guy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ooph. I didn’t blink at the flood but this is bad.

It’s a shame because I really prefer a boarding situation like district dogs to the house sitter/backyard situations, which seem far more risky to me.

The problem with district dogs maybe is it’s so big and corporate they have to hire too many too fast, idk.

You didn't blink at lots of dogs dying in a flood? Omg I couldn't even read the details it upset me so much.

Of course it was upsetting but I didn’t feel like it was district dogs fault. Nobody saw that coming (except possibly the people working on the tunnel).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think boarding kennels are safer than Rover people with tons of great reviews? I am not being antagonistic but wonder what I'm missing since I've used Rover out of apprehension of boarding places. If I read a couple of scary reviews, I cross them off and most kennels have some bad reviews.

Most of them rely on one person, and one person can get sick. Or have a life situation change. Or take on too many dogs on a holiday weekend and get overwhelmed. A big facility is impersonal but it has more layers of back up.

Like this dog died which is horrible. But if it hadn’t died, hopefully the other employees or some control system would have noticed the problem and this guy would have been fired and they could have shifted around to stay fully staffed.

If my rover person with great reviews goes on a bad mushroom trip or falls down the stairs or their mom is in the hospital or whatever, there’s nothing I can do from out of town and my dog is in the lurch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think boarding kennels are safer than Rover people with tons of great reviews? I am not being antagonistic but wonder what I'm missing since I've used Rover out of apprehension of boarding places. If I read a couple of scary reviews, I cross them off and most kennels have some bad reviews.

It probably depends on your situation and what you are asking them to do, tbh. I used rover for several years for daily walks. At that point, I lived in an apartment so the walker had to check the key out with the concierge, return it, and I’d get a notification when the key was both checked out and returned. I met him beforehand and did a lot of googling. The concierge at my building who worked the day shift had worked there for many years / I knew her and she regularly commented how nice the walker was, as did others in my building who ran into him and my dog. I guess none of that is foolproof, but it did make me comfortable.

I don’t think I’d feel comfortable with a random person, letting someone stay in my home or letting my dog stay with someone else, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awful. Lock the perpetrator up and throw away the key; then shut down this crap.

I take my dog to Petsmart daycare. It doesn’t have all the frills of this type of place but the people are so kind and stay consistent.

A life sentence for killing a dog? No.

Why not? People like that are useless and add no value to society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know how hard you have to hit a dog to actually cause it's death. I don't think my body is physically capable of dealing a blow like that. This is not an "accident".

People at these places are paid very little. And they hire anyone who will take the work. Most dog center work is cleaning, distributing meds, feeding, and more cleaning. What I am saying is they don't always attract people who are enthusiastic about the work.

Anyway the person should absolutely be charged and never allowed to work with animals again. Or children for that matter.

Depending on the size of the dog it might not take much. You can easily snap a small dog’s neck with a blow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know how hard you have to hit a dog to actually cause it's death. I don't think my body is physically capable of dealing a blow like that. This is not an "accident".

People at these places are paid very little. And they hire anyone who will take the work. Most dog center work is cleaning, distributing meds, feeding, and more cleaning. What I am saying is they don't always attract people who are enthusiastic about the work.

Anyway the person should absolutely be charged and never allowed to work with animals again. Or children for that matter.

Depending on the size of the dog it might not take much. You can easily snap a small dog’s neck with a blow.

I have seen the dog (sort of know the owners) and it wasn’t a small delicate dog. It took some force to hurt that dog.

[Anonymous]

The owners should sue the facility.

[Anonymous]

Heartbreaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe District Dogs thought the best of this hired individual, but tragically they were wrong. Not necessarily the fault of District Dogs. I'd need more information before coming to this conclusion.

No. First the flooding deaths and now abuse death. If you leave your dog with them after knowing about these incidents, and something happens to your dog, it's on you