Essential Guide to Building a Dog Kennel
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When one is going to build anything, one should always start by making a relationship.
two items to be incorporated into the project.
Starting from the ethological premise, we seek, within the possible, to provide the dog with a life
as close as possible to natural life that
he would have in his habitat.
The dog, as a direct descendant of the wolf, is
a burrowing animal, lives in burrows, thus, the
an ideal kennel would be a hole in which only
he would fit inside.
How the dog is 'domesticated', that is,
thank you for living in a domestic environment,
it will have to be managed according to the
our convenience, since we will be
we are responsible for the maintenance of
cleaning and caring for this animal.
Minimum area needed to accommodate a dog or a couple.
2. for large dogs (Great Dane)
for medium-sized dogs (boxer)
for small breed dogs (toy poodle)
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covered area (shelter),
solarium area,
kitchen and dependencies,
walker.
4. Sun as the most important medication for health and disease prevention
the position for better sun exposure
the use of solar radiation as an environmental sterilizer.
5. Furniture and utensils, scale, hydraulic system with automatic drinking fountain, and system
sanitary and cleaning.
6. Thermal protection against cold and heat. Ventilation.
7. Practicality - for a calm and quiet kennel
8. Management (cleaning - products and frequency, etc..)
9. Administrative set:
kennel management office,
pantry
10. Bathing room, grooming and veterinary care,
Maternity
12. Isolation or quarantine room.
Pool.
Minimum area required to accommodate a dog or a couple.
As we have seen, dogs do not need much space to shelter. The smaller, this
the closer it is to his size, the happier he will be. That's why the "little houses of
"dogs" are so popular among canines. However, as we need to enter
For cleaning service, the minimum height of the door should be two meters.
When I started, I made a kennel with a door 80 cm high thinking it would be sufficient for the dog.
it would be ideal... and it was. But after two months banging my head trying to get in and to
To go out, I decided to raise the height of the door.
The second problem that arose was the minimum area required for the dogs to stay.
a little more at ease, even on a rainy day. That's how the little table was born.
For large breed dogs (Great Dane), a room of 2 m x 2 m equals 4 m.2
A Great Dane lying down occupies an area measuring 1.50 m x 1.50 m and will have a gap of
50 cm to be able to move and turn in your bed.
For medium-sized dogs (boxers), a quarter of 1.5 m x 1.5 m is 2.25 m.2
A boxer occupies 1 m x 1 m and will have a clearance of 50 cm, plus 0.50 cm in width for the
passage of a human from one room to another.
For small dogs (toy poodle), a room of 1 m x 1 m or 1 m.2
A toy poodle occupies 0.50 m x 0.50 m and will have 50 cm to move around and an additional 0.50 cm.
width.
In the case of a couple, a bunk bed can be placed according to the floor plan and section, but the
the area required would be the same. Many dogs love to sleep on top.
Necessary rooms:
Covered area (shelter), is exactly the area mentioned in the previous item, according to the
animal door.
Solarium area,
for large breed dogs (Great Dane) maintaining the same width of the solarium and for what
the dog can practice a small run of two or three steps the length must be
six meters.
for medium-sized dogs (boxers) it should be three meters.
for small dogs (toy poodle) two meters.
Kitchen and dependencies must be designed for a kitchen so that, eventually, it can be
I can, in my free time, cook something varied so that the dog doesn't lose its taste.
to the food they are used to. The taste of dogs is similar to ours. The dog is
descendant of a carnivore but is omnivorous, eats everything, and likes to vary the palate like
we.
This kitchen should be large enough to have a table that can fit ...
scattered containers and facilitate the distribution of food. The ideal is to have a cart to
transport all the bowls at once.
Walker - a fenced, paved area,
rough, easy to clean where the dog can
stay sunbathing for a while
relatively long: 2 hours. This area must
to be at least 50 m210 m x 5 m. for a
couple of medium-sized dogs.
3. The sun as the most important
prophylactic medication for health and
disease prevention the position for
best sun incidence the use of
solar radiation as a sterilizer
environmental.
We know the importance of the sun for health.
our dear dogs.
The best time is in the morning, between 7 and
10 am. What few people know is that the kennel should be facing towards the
direction of where the sun rises in winter so that, at this time, the sun can penetrate
even in the room. The sun has a fantastic power to eliminate any bacteria from feces, in addition
to favor osteogenesis (ossification) by inducing the production by the organism of the
vitamins A+D3.
4. Furniture and utensils
The bed should be made with special hardwood that does not easily get damaged.
with the constant biting of dogs... The wood that best suits the making of the bed
for dogs it is the IPÊ. I have ipê beds with 18 years of use... enduring beyond the gnawed
of the dogs, constant washes with bleach and pressure washer.
The hydraulic system is similar to that of a condominium, supplying drinking water to everyone.
the boxes with the built-in piping. It is advisable to install a drinking fountain
automático muito usado em suinocultura, de forma que o cão terá sempre água fresca.
In any case, whether automatic or not, the drinking fountains should be fixed to one of the
chants, close to the dormitory, under the roof, but outside so that if he plays with
water, do not wet your sleeping environment and, if it tries to destroy, the water fountain will be fixed.
The sanitation system should be as practical as possible, to facilitate cleaning and not burden.
operational costs.
As you will be able to see in the floor plan and in the longitudinal section, when washing the kennel with a
pressure hose, all waste is 'swept' out of the kennel through a
fresh, on the ground, 6 cm under the pre-cast in front of the sidewalk and that extends along
of the entire width of the sunroom. The trench that lies under the grid (Ground Plan) runs along
all the kennels obeying a slope of 10% and transport the feces and urine to the
septic tank.
5. Thermal protection against cold and heat. Ventilation.
The walls should be made of clay bricks, plastered and finished with
a cement-and-sand mass or tiles, to prevent dogs from scratching the
walls, make holes. The bricks maintain a cushion of air between their surfaces,
maintaining the ideal temperature. The ceiling should be made of slab with a constructed roof.
with the wooden framework and the tiles tied together, also forming an air cushion between the tiles
and the slab, thus preventing both the heat of the sun and the cold of the rain from reaching the
environment in which the dog is accommodated.
6. Practicality for a quieter kennel
One kennel should never be separated from another by a grate or screen. Technically, it is a
incoherence to allow two dogs separated by a wall to see each other and bother one another
the other. Besides barking at each other continuously, preventing them from resting,
digest and recover emotionally, when released, they will inevitably
to fight.
In our kennel, there is total silence most of the day and night with over 70 dogs.
They only bark when lunch and dinner are served.
7. Management (cleaning - products and frequency, etc..)
The cleaning service of the kennel must be done only with abundant water.
Disinfection is done with chlorine, removing all animals until it is abundant.
lavado e o cheiro tenha se desvanecido. A freqüência dessa desinfeção dependerá da
total population of the kennel. A breeding kennel with only one pair of dogs may proceed
this disinfection once a month. With more than twenty specimens, we recommend the
weekly disinfection.
Ticks and fleas The control of parasites must be strict. Avoid the use
deorganophosphates (agricultural pesticides out of use). The most correct, although more expensive, is
apply products to dogs that temporarily protect them from fleas and ticks and
eliminate them, from the walls of the kennel, with boiling water (steam machines at 140º).
8. Administrative set:
Escritório de gerenciamento do canil, é importante que você faça um controle histórico dos
dogs and, mainly, the control of expenses. The dog owner is very attached to a
unnecessary expense, especially with vitamins and anabolic steroids.
Pantry, prepare a dry and cool place to store bags of feed, rice, cornmeal or
any food product intended for dog consumption. Also have a freezer.
to be able to make a stock of bones for the dogs to chew.
9. Bathing, grooming, and care room
veterinarians
Your kennel should have a room for treatment
of the dogs: brush every day, give baths,
eventually shear an animal that
need. A place where your veterinarian
possa examinar seus cães.
Our kennel has a bathing room.
& Tosa is a clinic for the veterinarian
responsible to work a lot
comfort.
10. Maternity,
If you are going to create, you should think about an environment
isolated and easy to clean to serve as a maternity.
maternity I mean an environment, free of influences
outdoors, where the bitch will give birth to her puppies and take care of them
until weaning.
The pregnant woman, birthing woman, or nursing mother needs the sensation
of security and inviolability of your nest.
11. Isolation or quarantine room
With exclusive access through the veterinary care room. When one of your pets gets sick,
you will need to preserve the other animals, so you will need a safe place to
keep him under observation during treatment.
12. Pool.
It is a very important option. Most dogs
that does not coexist with water, swimming, jumping inside
etc. when it reaches adolescence it becomes afraid and this
may result in your death due to lack of experience,
if he accidentally falls into a pool, for
example. Moreover, swimming is one of the exercises
mais completos para qualquer raça, pois exercita todos
the muscles.
The round pool is the ideal pool because you can do
a continuous exercise. Swimming in a circle now in a
sense now in the other exercises a side of the dog of
each time, in addition to exercising the lateral muscles of the abdomen.
Bruno Tausz
Dog lover and Ethologist - Rio de Janeiro - RJ