Kennelling dogs

[Clodagh]

We are getting some kennels, heated, insulated and very secure.
The house dogs will continue to be that but future workers will sleep outside at night and be out there when we are busy or out.
I presume it’s much the same as crate training? I thought they could start off in the house for bonding and house training and then be moved outside when they were older. Or is it better to sleep out from the start?
I’m sure I’m overthinking this! The working terriers always lived out and I never spared a thought to transitioning them.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

We used to keep pups in the house and transfer to the kennel at about 6 months , depending on the weather/season. I wouldn't want one dog in a kennel on its own.

 

[Moobli]

It depends with our workers … a single pup lives in the house with short periods of kennelling during the day until around 5-6 months then goes out full time. If we have a pair we do it the other way around and they are kennelled from day one but come into the house 3/4 times a day for environmental exposure, play and bonding, cuddle time etc.

 

[Clodagh]

I do think I need to tell OH we have to buy two ?

 

[YorksG]

I do think I need to tell OH we have to buy two ?

Absolutely!

 

[twiggy2]

Ours start in the house with kennel time and then go out full time at about 6 months, no heating in our kennels so if that age hits the middle of winter they stay in longer.
I like them house trained and settled in the house then if they don't make workers for us its much easier for them to go on to become house dogs.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

I do think I need to tell OH we have to buy two ?

Of course you do!

 

[Moobli]

I do think I need to tell OH we have to buy two ?

Definitely!

 

[Clodagh]

I’m not getting two, btw! Unless a rehome turns up. I like my dogs to be ok alone and it will only be in the kennel for sleep and rest, not playing.
And with the prices I can’t afford two anyway ?

 

[CorvusCorax]

I put them out in increments anywhere between 6-12 months. They are usually in at night though.

 

[Moobli]

I’m not getting two, btw! Unless a rehome turns up. I like my dogs to be ok alone and it will only be in the kennel for sleep and rest, not playing.
And with the prices I can’t afford two anyway ?

Ours are always kennelled separately as adults with no problems at all, whether they’ve had a sibling kennel mate as pups or not … so don’t discount it ?. Pup prices do finally seem to be coming down again.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

I do think I need to tell OH we have to buy two ?

All the best people do! Have you found a dog now?

 

[Clodagh]

All the best people do! Have you found a dog now?

Just said yes to one. He’s 5 months.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Ours are always kennelled separately as adults with no problems at all, whether they’ve had a sibling kennel mate as pups or not … so don’t discount it ?. Pup prices do finally seem to be coming down again.

I think there is a difference between dogs being kennelled individually and one dog being the only one kennelled outside, particularly when the others are inside.

 

[Moobli]

I think there is a difference between dogs being kennelled individually and one dog being the only one kennelled outside, particularly when the others are inside.

I have no experience of one dog being kennelled alone when all others are indoors. OH’s sheepdogs are kennelled individually but are next to each other so can see/hear one another. My point to Clodagh was to point out that two pups can be raised in kennels together but aren’t so reliant on one another as they mature that they must always be kennel mates.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Just said yes to one. He’s 5 months.

Fabulous! Being the superficial person that I am, what colour is he?

 

[Clodagh]

Yellow. I kind of wanted black but he’s the right age, breeding is perfect and not a million miles away.
I’m still looking for another but I don’t want 2 at the same age. Until the other turns up he will be kennelled alone, but not until it warms up and who knows how many I will have found by then. ?

 

[Thistle]

Yellow. I kind of wanted black but he’s the right age, breeding is perfect and not a million miles away.
I’m still looking for another but I don’t want 2 at the same age. Until the other turns up he will be kennelled alone, but not until it warms up and who knows how many I will have found by then. ?

I'm confused, or missed something, I didn't think you did male dogs?

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Somebody was offering a chocolate dog on here, possibly too old for you? I confess I’m a sucker for puppies.

 

[Clodagh]

I'm confused, or missed something, I didn't think you did male dogs?

Time to give one a try ?

 

[Clodagh]

Somebody was offering a chocolate dog on here, possibly too old for you? I confess I’m a sucker for puppies.

I’m not very keen on puppies, but thankfully it’s a passing phase ?

 

[druid]

Mine are kenneled as needed from day one (kennels inside a block built shed directly off the house, it's heated/lit to the same spec as the house) but sleep indoors mostly, they're kenneled when I'm out/busy in house, when I'm training others and if they're wet or boggy after work. All have jump up beds from hiK9 topped with a tuffie mattress and heat lamps if needed. They without fail ask to go in the kennel block not in the back door after being outside even for a pee.

I increase time spent out in the kennel in short increments and they go in with a nice chew or treat for the first several months so it's a positive place. I also have a nanny dog who has all pups until they are 6-8 months when they move to new kennels. Some dogs are paired up, some are solo by their own preference (my stud dog is kenneled solo as he's a horrid bully)

 

[Clodagh]

We haven’t got the kennels yet so he will be living n for a while yet. He’ll be crate trained and used to being left when he moves out.
I intend to use them like you do, Druid, except they will go out there at bedtime as well.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Don’t mean to frighten you and you said they’ll be secure, but my mechanic showed me a horrible video of a young woman dragging what looks like a golden retriever out of it’s kennel at a nearby property and stealing it. It’s awful to watch, the dog is desperate not to go with her. ?

 

[druid]

We haven’t got the kennels yet so he will be living n for a while yet. He’ll be crate trained and used to being left when he moves out.
I intend to use them like you do, Druid, except they will go out there at bedtime as well.

I shouldn't admit that three currently sleep on my bed...while two do, one sleeps in his troll hole under the back corner of my bed against the wall The others sleep in the dog room downstairs.

 

[druid]

Don’t mean to frighten you and you said they’ll be secure, but my mechanic showed me a horrible video of a young woman dragging what looks like a golden retriever out of it’s kennel at a nearby property and stealing it. It’s awful to watch, the dog is desperate not to go with her. ?

Breaking into my kennels would be no different to breaking into the house to which they are attached - same (higher!) security, alarms, CCTV, motion detectors etc. If they're going to do it, they will all you can do is make it as hard as possible. All external doors have steel cage door externally over normal access door. Doors double dead bolted.

 

[Thistle]

I'm very tempted to convert some sheds into kennelling, however I'm also thing of adding a dog room to the utility as a half way house, my dogs never have free range in the house and are often confined to the kitchen or utility, I quite like the idea of being able to split dogs up according to personality. Am using some temporary kennels on one of the sheds as a chill out zone when dogs are filthy, or when I'm walking one or two but not all, if I had a nice insulated, roofed block then the spanners would have been in there today after their beach walk. Lots to do and improve here in Suffolk but I'm loving it so far!

 

[Clodagh]

Don’t mean to frighten you and you said they’ll be secure, but my mechanic showed me a horrible video of a young woman dragging what looks like a golden retriever out of it’s kennel at a nearby property and stealing it. It’s awful to watch, the dog is desperate not to go with her. ?

They will be more secure then the house.

 

[Clodagh]

I'm very tempted to convert some sheds into kennelling, however I'm also thing of adding a dog room to the utility as a half way house, my dogs never have free range in the house and are often confined to the kitchen or utility, I quite like the idea of being able to split dogs up according to personality. Am using some temporary kennels on one of the sheds as a chill out zone when dogs are filthy, or when I'm walking one or two but not all, if I had a nice insulated, roofed block then the spanners would have been in there today after their beach walk. Lots to do and improve here in Suffolk but I'm loving it so far!

I’m glad you are loving it, I’ve been meaning to ask for an update