A full house means a board full of dogs that all need a run, and a person standing there working out which fits where. The Kennel Whizard does that sort for you: it reads every checked-in dog that still needs a run, matches each to a kennel that actually fits — size, capacity, and service level all respected — and lays out the whole plan. You glance at it, click once, and the board's assigned.
The run board, sorted in one click.
Assigning a full house to runs is the kind of repetitive puzzle software should just do — match each dog to a kennel that fits, skip the ones that don't, and let a human handle the rest. That's the Kennel Whizard, and it's live in BarkWhiz today as part of the operational core.
No black box. It works through the same checks a good kennel manager runs in their head — just instantly, across every dog at once.
The Whizard finds every checked-in dog that still needs a run, and it knows which runs are open right now from live occupancy — including shared run-banks where a few kennels draw from one pool. No clipboard, no counting heads down the aisle.
Each dog's size and weight against the run's limit. The run's service tier. How much room is left in that kennel and its bank. Whether the run's even active. A dog only gets suggested for a run it genuinely fits — nothing crammed where it shouldn't go.
Every suggested placement is laid out before a single thing changes. Dogs it can't place show up as "needs a run" with the reason — over the weight limit, every eligible run full — so nothing ever gets quietly shoved into the wrong spot.
Review the plan, hit the button, and every placement is written at once — not one drag at a time.
One tap on "Assign dogs" applies the whole plan — every dog dropped into its run together, with a quick "assigned 12 of 12 to runs" to confirm it landed.
Morning rush, midday arrivals, a late check-in — open the Whizard again and it only places what's still unassigned. The dogs already in runs stay exactly where they are.
The Whizard is a head start, not a handcuff. Don't like a placement? Drag any dog to a different run, or assign the whole board by hand. The suggestion is yours to take or change.
It's honest about its lane. The Whizard handles the mechanical sort so your team can spend its judgment where judgment actually matters.
The mechanical fit, every time: does the dog's weight clear the run's limit, is there capacity in the kennel and its bank, does the run's service tier match, is the run active. The fast, exact, repetitive checks that are easy to fumble at 7 a.m. with a lobby full of leashes.
The calls only a person who knows the dogs can make: which two shouldn't share a wall, who needs the quiet end, the reactive guy who gets the corner run. The Whizard never pretends to read temperament — it hands those dogs to you and gets out of the way.
"Sorting a full board into runs ate my mornings — standing there doing weight-and-space math in my head while the lobby backed up. Get it wrong and you've double-booked a kennel or put a big dog where he doesn't fit.
The Kennel Whizard is that math, done instantly, for every dog at once — the rules part handled, the dogs that need a human surfaced, the judgment left to me."
Straight talk on what it is
The Kennel Whizard is a rule-based expert system — deterministic AI, not a language model's guess — it matches dogs to runs on size, capacity, and service tier, can't hallucinate, and it's honest about the dogs it can't place. It's live in BarkWhiz today for staff with assignment permissions, and we onboard each founding facility by hand so your runs, banks, weight limits, and tiers are set up to match your real building. Running a boarding floor? See how the Whizard fits the whole morning on our boarding software page. See the operations workspace →
It's the built-in run-assignment helper in BarkWhiz. It looks at every checked-in dog that still needs a run, matches each one to a kennel that fits — on the dog's size and weight, the run's capacity, and the service tier — and lays out the whole plan so you can assign your board in a single click.
It builds the plan; you apply it. The Whizard shows every suggested placement before anything changes, and you click to assign them all at once. You're always the one who hits go — and you can still drag and drop or place any dog by hand whenever you want.
The dog's size and weight against each run's limit, the run's service tier, how much capacity each run and each shared run-bank has left, and which runs are active and open right now. It only ever suggests a run the dog actually fits — and if nothing fits, it says so instead of forcing it.
The Whizard handles the mechanical fit — size, space, and service level. The judgment calls only you can make, like which two dogs shouldn't be neighbors or who needs the quiet end of the building, stay with your team. Any dog it can't place is surfaced as "needs a run" so a person decides.
It's live in BarkWhiz today, part of the operational core, available to staff with assignment permissions. We're pre-launch and onboard each founding facility by hand, so we set your runs, banks, weight limits, and service tiers up to match how your building actually works. See the full roadmap.
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