Thread: Dog House

go get 5 wooden pelletts from out the front of a factory nail together knock out a few planks so poch can get in job done

save ya timber. Get a plastic 200 litre drum lay on side use angle grinder to cut square U shape in one end big enough for him to get in, lift the flap as a verandah, throw blankets electic blanket small esky in and you'll be like a pig in p**
Tonz

"amateur", "poOch", "pAllets" and "electRic".... I wish youse lot would learn to spell gooder!
Oh, and fair go blokes, the lady obviously wants a kennel not a pile of pallets or a recycled drench drum!

Thanks for the suggestions...are you the spelling & grammer moniter Christopha?
I was told that potato crates might be good too?

I believe the kennel should be only just big enough for the dog so he stays nice and warm, really flash ones have a bag screening the door to keep the draft out. Potato boxes might be OK depending on size.

John.

Strewth Tigergrrl! A spud box would fit 4 Kelpies but built with lots of pine to make a comfy one from.
Oh, no I'm not spelling the monitOr and me Grammer carked it years ago.

Perhaps this link might help with Pooch palace....
http://www.mikestrong.com/doghouse/

I have built 2 kennels for kelpie sized dogs and used water proof ply on 90x45 bearers to keep it off the ground.

The walls were 45x45 studs with corrugated iron outside and 6mm ply inside.I also made the roof out of the same size timber. The walls and roof were insulated.

As to dimensions measure the dog and add 300mm to the high and 600mm to the length. (They like to turn around)

I built one for a Staffy out of Marine Ply which made it expensive and extremely heavy but it handled the weather easily. I simply cut four sides, two rectangles and two squares with a trianngle on top and cut a hole in one of those as a door. Then used two more rectangles for pitched roof. I screwed it all together and added a hinge so that I could open the roof and clean it out.

EDIT: Ooops also required one more rectangle for the floor.

HH.

Built a kennel for our dog and he has never been in it. built it and covered it with weather boards and a tin roof and the boy wants 5/5's of nothing to do with it.

Hey, Tiggerrl, That annoying guy on Channel 7 is about to build a kennel.... http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/better-homes-gardens/

Thanks for the reply's guys..have a bit of option anxiety going on now! ...will come up with something no doubt..

I have built two kennels for our dog and it simply refuses to stay inside either. We have placed all manner of goodies inside, spent hours coaxing her to go inside. Put her inside and sat with her telling her what a good dog she is etc.

When we leave she immediately gets out of the kennel and goes around the side of the house and rolls around in a patch of grey sand (which happens to be under a leaking gutter so when it rains we get home she is all wet!)

We also have one of those doggy trampoline things, a dog basket and a cloth kennel inside the house. Her preference is the leather sofa - which she knows she is not allowed to use but she creeps onto it after we are asleep and gets off it around 5:30 am and comes and lays on a rug by our bed.

Any tips?

Hey Bob,
Get rid of the sofa then she'll have to use the kennel

Our retreiver was the same but as I seem to spend so much time in there myself she soon got the idea Actually a bit of sheepskin and a towel used to dry her chucked in the kennel did the trick.

I built a kennel a few years ago out of pine pallets that CIG welders came on for our Staffy and at first he refused to use it. He preferred to sleep outside in the dirt in the the middle of New England winters. We put hessian bags in there for him to sleep on. Then one day he decided to use it.

Last winter I decided to insulate it with 2 inch thick polystyrene foam and covered it with three ply. When I did this I reduced the entrance slightly and he refused to go in again.

I don't know whether this was because of the smell maybe or the fact that the entrance was reduced and when he had his coat on it was a bit of a squeeze and maybe he thought he wouldn't be able to get out.

So we bought one of those elcheapo round foam beds from Bunnings for he and let him sleep on the verandah instead of his lockup yard.

Because he used to get up to mischief when we were away like dig up the gardens etc. we would lock him in his yard. Eventually we caught him coming out of his kennel one day so now he uses it all the time even if we don't lock him up in the yard.

Sometimes dogs are harder to understand than SWMBO.