 Bedroom to dog room
#267989 - 03/07/2010 10:42 AM |
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My friend has no place to keep her crates/dog but her spare bedroom. Needless to say, with carpet, the room gets funky. She has to break down the crates, take them outside and wash/sanitize and then shampoo the carpets, wash the walls down and put it all back together again on a regualr basis.
First off, let me say that my solution to this is simple....dont have so many dogs....but she has her own purpose for each dog. SO...I am trying to find a cheap way to transform the room into a more dog/sanitation friendly environment.
My ideas are to remove the carpet and apply either a vinyl remnant or vinyl tile to the floors and then find some sort of...something we can apply to the walls from floor to about 2 feet up that is easy to clean and install a bathroom fan in the room for circulation.
I have been on the net looking thru home improvement sites trying to get ideas for what could be used but then it occured to me that you brilliant people might have some ideas.
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Re: Bedroom to dog room
[Re: Angie Stark ]
#267995 - 03/07/2010 11:11 AM |
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Well, my darling husband built me a dog house (so he can send ME to the doughouse, I suppose)... it's about the size of a large room. We put cheap vinyl down, knowing it wouldn't last what would normally be expected anyway. He ran the vinyl up the wall about 4" then used a plastic/synthetic strip to attach. Above the vinyl and also attached under the strip is plexiglass, going up the wall about 4'. We have a window air conditioner installed directly through the wall, it has heat/air/fresh air circulation. A window that opens, with a screen, directly across the room generally allows free circulation of new air.
I only boarded less than ten dogs at a time, and usually only had 5-6 at a time, and this worked well.
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[Re: Paula Colvett ]
#267996 - 03/07/2010 11:13 AM |
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Paula, do you have any pictures?
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[Re: Angie Stark ]
#267998 - 03/07/2010 11:19 AM |
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How many dogs are we talking about? How realistically clean are these dogs kept? Are these wire crates, plasic, or ? Does she feed and water these dogs in their crates?
Reason I ask is that at a certain point the number of dogs becomes a funk factory and a health concern for both the dogs and people. Reality is that at that point a kennel building is needed for the health and management of the dogs and for sake of the people living there.
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#267999 - 03/07/2010 11:25 AM |
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She has 3 dogs in wire crates and a 4th in a vari-kennel because he messes in the crate every day and spins it all over the place. I have no idea if she feeds them in the crates. I didn't post for critisim on what she should or shouldnt be doing...Im not the boss of her. Just trying to find a way to make the situation better for dog and people. Building a kennel would be awesome and she would welcome having them in a kennel vs her home especially since she moved to this place from a home with a very nice kennel but sometimes you have to make do for a while. Thanks for the input.
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#268001 - 03/07/2010 11:30 AM |
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what size dogs are we talking about?
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#268003 - 03/07/2010 11:34 AM |
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Hey, what about those peel-and-stick floor tiles? I think you can take up and replace badly damaged ones.
Just an idea; I have no experience with them beyond seeing them on HGTV. So I don't know for sure that they can continue up the wall a way, but it's something to look at.
Maybe looking at the home-siteideas for kitchen back-splash materials would provide partial-wall ideas too.
(Getting rid of the carpet would certainly be my primary focus too.)
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#268004 - 03/07/2010 11:37 AM |
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Angie, while you're helping her, you might get an opportunity to ease her into the free eBook on LB about crate training, and to find out why the dog has what sounds like diarrhea.
If you can't, you can't, but who knows what opportunities will present themselves. 
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#268006 - 03/07/2010 11:46 AM |
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She got the dog when he was 8 months old or so and he and his family have all been kennel dogs. None of her other dogs are bad in the crate, just this one. It's not diardhea but by the time he pees on it and spins all day long in the kennel, it is quite a disgusting soupy mess. Even when she puts him in the run outside, he just spins in circles. He's nasty.
Peel n stick vinyl is what I was thinking too, just didn't know if it would stick right to the osb or whatever sub floor she has plus wanted to ask around before just doing it and then someone telling me an idea that I wish Id thought of  I hadthought of that plastic pebble-y textured wall board they use in commercial kitchens, turns out that would be pretty expensive. I was wondering about running the peel n stick tiles right up the wall to the top of the crates but didn't know if they'd stay on a verticle surface....I guess a person could glue them.
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#268007 - 03/07/2010 11:47 AM |
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Dennis, the dogs are pits and one malinois.
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