About
How these pictures were made
Every photograph on this site was generated, not taken.
No animal in any frame on this site is a real animal, no building shown exists, and nobody's face appears anywhere. That includes the team page: every member of staff there is shown by their hands rather than a portrait.
Ask an image model for a boarding kennel and it draws bars, chain link and a concrete run with a drain, not because that is what a good kennel looks like, but because that is what the trade's own stock photography looks like. Every suite here is composed as what it actually is instead: a small private room with a glass front, a raised bed, daylight from a window, and a warm floor.
The harder problem in this trade is lettering. A real kennel is covered in small text a stranger could read: a name on a door, a brand on a bag, a chart on a wall. A generated image invents that text rather than copying it, which is worse than showing nothing. So the six decisions below were made structurally, once, rather than left to a list of instructions repeated on every photograph.
Every animal is bare-necked
No collar, no harness, no clipped lead in any frame. A collar carries a tag, and a tag is lettering a model has to invent: a name, a number, an address, none of which is real. Where a lead appears at all, it is a plain rope slip lead, coiled in a hand, with no dog on it.
No suite door faces the camera square
The card holder on a kennel door is this trade's usual lettering surface, and every real one carries a name in handwriting. Rather than instructing it away, these photographs are shot from inside a suite looking out, or down a corridor at an angle where the door faces are edge-on.
No packaging, anywhere
No sack, tin, tub, pouch or bottle, and no bowl shown square to the lens. Food appears as food in a plain steel dish, or it does not appear.
No whiteboard, chart, clipboard, screen or notice
A feeding chart on a wall is one of the most photographed objects in this trade, and it is pure invented text. The walls in these photographs are empty, tiled or painted.
No uniform, and no face
A shirt invites embroidery and a chest square to the camera invites a logo. People appear as hands only, one action per member of staff, which is also why there is no portrait for a framed certificate to hang behind.
No facade, no street number, no van, no doormat
The front of a real building is a sign. The one arrival photograph on this site is shot from inside the lobby, looking at the lower half of the doors.
One more rule runs alongside the six above: no frame shows an animal in distress, and no frame shows a dog behind a barrier looking out at the camera. That second image is the most common photograph in this trade, and it argues against the business it is meant to advertise.
About the photographs. Every photograph on this site was generated, not taken. No animal in any frame is a real animal, nobody's face appears anywhere, and the building does not exist. There is a page explaining exactly how they were made and why the dogs are not wearing collars.
Are those dates free?
The calendar shows every night, for every suite class, with how many are left and what that night costs. Nothing is paid on this website: you pay when you collect.