Tell us about your dog kennels

[FranMan]

Judgemenot was over the house last weekend and laughed at my current kennel setup. Which I must admit it is lacking. Basically I have two 10x10's for my Beagles. Which currently houses 4 dog all under a year of age. I will be back down two outside beagles hopefully in the next couple of weeks. In the next couple of months I should be getting GSD. So I'll have 10x10 for two beagles and a 10x10 for the GSD. Before then I would like to get the kennels in order and easy to use.

Here are some of the problems I face where my kennels are currently at.

Red Clay ground :mad:
Far away from the house, which is good and bad
No water or power at the kennels
No Septic, the poop is piling up.
Lots of shade, great for the summer not so helpful in the winter
It gets cold enough to freeze a couple months out of the year
If I get new beagles I need a way to shut them up, close them in their box.I have about an acre of land. Most of it is wooded or claimed for use. The spot the kennels are currently at is nicely shaded. It works out good for the summer. Now that winter is around and we are making up for the drought it isn't helpful. It doesn't like to dry up since there isn't any sun and it is cold. Currently I have a x-large igloo with a mat inside. When it gets cold I stick all the pups together. They don't seem to mind it at all. I am thinking about building the normal hunter's above ground kennel. It seems to keep the dogs in better shape. I am also planning to start leaving the beagles in the fenced in yard during the day, So the kennel will only before night time sleeping.



Here is a fairly nice kennel.
http://www.geocities.com/oakhillkennel/kennel.html


You think it will work?
http://www.gundoghousedoor.com/articles/sanitary_dog_kennel.htm

[yordizabar]

Here are some examples from what you see overhere, may be you can get some ideas!

http://www.corton.nl/NL-Dog/hondenkennels.htm

http://www.kennelbouw-exclusief.nl/

http://www.kennelbouw-janssen.be/

http://www.kennelbouwzuidnederland.nl/kennels.htm

[FranMan]

Wow that kennelbouw-janssen.be has nice set up. I would say that cost a lot to build haha. I haven't seen any of those style kennels here.

[yordizabar]

http://www.apport-hondesport.nl/kenneldelen.html

here are prices, but it is not by every one the same price, I don't know if they do shipping, this company I know does ship dogsupplies like sleeves and everything all over the world, but not sure if they do ship kennels.

[FranMan]

I am sure it would be cheaper to get something here in the states. I can only guess the cost of the shipping would be a lot and it would probably be damaged on the way here.

[Crazy_lady]

A suggestion I have: If you are to improve your kennel situation is to install fake grass. Unfortunetly it can be expensive. But you don't need to worry about mowing or really upkeep of the grass really. This is something that I am considering for our backyard, which the grass well... there really isn't much grass right now with a medium sized yard for our area and with two shepherds.