Family Opens Luxury Dog Boarding Facility

Sometimes an enterprise, an opportunity, presents itself in unexpected ways, including assets on purchased real estate.

Mike and Leasa Dornbier purchased the kind of estate that inspires western novels. The prairie valley is long and sloping to the south and west with the sun gently resting on the distant hills. The almost Kentucky-green yards separate the home from the guest house, accented to the east by a pond and to the west by a 10-kennel outbuilding. The surrounding four acres are as if a fantasy land for children and for dogs.

That is where the concept of a kennel came about. The ou...