Ugh... more on Kennel Cough

Silaria

Silaria

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I just found out that we had a case of Kennel Cough show up in our training facility. One of our trainer's dogs has it and she didn't even know it when they were at the building on Saturday for Flyball classes.

In addition to notifying our students, there is currently debate about whether or not to hold classes tonight.

My comment - cancel classes tonight and spend it cleaning the building and crates as best we can. (We can at least surface clean but that doesn't help the air borne component.)

Personally, I think Edan and CJ will be missing a few weeks of classes. Even though they are vaccinated, I'm not willing to take a chance on this strain being covered by their vaccination; it's a foolish risk to take.
 
Kennel cough is really going around the northeast. My club closed for a week and members volunteered a day to sanitize the obedience hall.

They never canceled agility classes because it's outside, but they advised that if any dog in your household has KC, to keep all your dogs home. Dogs can still carry the virus without showing any symptoms.

I did miss a few classes because I didn't want to take any chances. Bailey is going to return to classes tomorrow.
 
The most recent email, from our club president, said they were cancelling classes tonight and were going to wait to hear what the one instructor's vet had to say (whether not not the KC is a confirmed case) before deciding what to do about classes the rest of the week.

All our classes are indoors so if there is a chance of infecting dogs we don't really want to take it.

I'm glad they made the call to cancel classes tonight. I'm still skipping Edan's class tomorrow. I'm supposed to teach tomorrow night also (first time teaching a handling class) so I have no idea if that will happen or not right now.

The health and safety of the dogs is, and should be, of paramount importance.
 
Oh man--it definitely must be going around.

I hope that Edan and CJ don't get it, and that the instructor's dog either doesn't have it, or is an isolated incident.
 
Don't worry too much, we get this problem regularly, although we don't have the problem of being inside. We tend to see kennel cough after big flyball comps - so many dogs mingling. If one of the team dogs have it we cancel flyball team training, if it was at a competition but none of our dogs appear to have it then we may train but generally the dogs that went to the comp stay away.

We never cancel any other training or classes - its very hard to catch it without direct contact. However we do remove all shared water bowls for two weeks and wipe down the taps.
 
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