Grooming at Bay Creek

I have not used Bay Kennels for boarding, but I did buy my golden retriever here and he is now 13 1/2. He is the BEST dog I have ever known and he is a big part of our family. He has a great personality and is intelligent, strong, and doing so well even at an older age. At times in the past, BK has not had golden retriever puppies (and he has a little brother from another breeder), but when I'm ready to add another puppy, I'm definitely going here.

I took two of my dogs to Bay Kennels for an 8 week in-house training. Both are high energy pups about 1 year old. Phil has a very firm technique that my puppies needed and he has done wonders with them. I would definitely recommend him for larger dog breeds especially. I would definitely take another dog to him!

Please please listen to the other reviews about the abusive treatment. He uses choke chains to an extreme!!!! Our dog had blood shot eyes and was extremely skinny after 3 weeks of an 8 week training session. She was sore and inflamed on her hips and ribs. Our dog was not herself and we pulled her from the program after witnessing some abusive behavior. Her nose was dry and extremely hot which leads me to believe that she had not had a lot to drink or eat.

Do not take your dogs to this place! He abuses them, literally body slamming the dogs on the cement floors. He did it in front of me while attempting to "train" my dog. Initially, my dog could not get up and was not able to breathe. He also repeatedly hit my dog with his leash. Both of my dogs were removed from his facility. If he treats animals like this in front of the owner and two other families that were there for training I can only imagine how horrible their treatment is for boarding. I left my dogs there with him and I regret it. It took months to be able to get them to eat again normally and to not be scared on a leash. I received notification today that another person was at the facility and their dog was body slammed and they witnessed another dog being slammed against the wall. I'm not exaggerating by saying body slamming. If you saw this man, his size, and strength and then the way he throws the dogs around it is horrendous. This is NOT the way to train an animal and it would never be reinforced at home so what's the point of putting them through the horrible experience. He made their behavior and food aggression worse. Your dogs are better off with no training than going to this facility.

Took my dog here for about a week and a half when we went out on vacation to Oklahoma. And we picked him up at they brought him to the front door of that place and he peed all over the main entrance bye the desk and he never does that. That shows that they didn’t let him out. We also paid for extra care and they never gave him that extra care and didn’t charge us for it. And comes back skinny.