About Phoebe’s K9 Resort

Phoebe's K9 Resort is a Seneca Falls boarding and daycare business that added training by bringing in a named trainer rather than by adding a line to its price list. That is worth knowing, because it is the reason this is the only place in the hub publishing agility work for pet owners.

The trainer

The site introduces Gail Parks as the resort's trainer: a Certified Dog Trainer through the Animal Behavior College with 30 years of experience working with dogs, including 15 years competing in dog agility across several venues – AKC, USDAA, CPE and NADAC. The site says she has rescued many dogs over the years and turned them into agility dogs, and that one of her interests is training rescue dogs to make them more adoptable, including dogs from Fetch A Friend Rescue. She is also described as certified in pet CPR and first aid.

What is taught

The published training line is basic obedience group classes, private lessons and basic agility training, with clinics on pet CPR and first aid also planned. The site directs owners to the trainer's own site to register for classes and gives a direct phone number for her, so training is booked with her rather than through the boarding desk.

Boarding and daycare

Boarding and daycare run alongside. The site posts a health notice that is more explicit than most: a pet that has recently visited another boarding or daycare facility is asked to wait 14 days before returning, and owners are asked to keep dogs home while they are showing respiratory symptoms until they are clear or have finished a course of antibiotics. That is a stricter intake rule than the norm, and worth reading before booking around a trip.

Where it fits

For an owner in Seneca Falls, Waterloo or the northern end of Cayuga Lake, this is the closest published group obedience class other than Geneva. For anyone in the region wanting to start agility, it is the only published option on this hub.