Rick Miller Webboard User Reg: 05-24-2007
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Hey! Long time no see...I am about to set up a pen in the new backyard, and I have a few questions:
Bella has always tried to dig her way out of the kennel when she is anxious, so I expect her to try the same in her new pen. I was thinking of laying stones out along the edges to prevent this. Is this the best way, or are there better alternatives?
Anything that gets her away from the edges of the pen is going to make her "farther" away from getting out. If she can't move the stones then that sounds like a good plan.
Maybe big railroad cross-ties would work good, too.
With my old dog, we dug an almost 2 foot deep trench all the way around the pen and then buried railroad cross-ties. Lot of work.
Melissa Thom Webboard User Reg: 12-04-2007
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I like concrete slabs or lacking that using large paving stones across the whole pen.
If neither is economical or possible then yes, large Stones (at least 18" x 18") across the edge will work. A hint though is to make sure your chain link is super tight and as low as you can get it.
As far as bedding, if it's too big to concrete in I like dirt, pea gravel, or woodstove pellets. Just remember whatever you put in there will not stay in there and you'll have to learn to enjoy it everywhere else.
Mike J Schoonbrood Webboard User Reg: 04-30-2005
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I used 12x12" concrete pavers, woulda used 18x18 or 24x24 if I could find them easily, but 12x12 is fine if you dont mind it not looking as flush as a driveway.
The middle is filled in with silex gravel (kinda like pea gravel) which makes cleanup a lot easier. Every month I pour 3 or 4 buckets of water over each kennel that is filled with some special cleaning stuff made for cleaning kennels. One bottle is disinfectant the other bottle is a strong lemon scent.
Digging got solved by putting a paver under the gravel in the place they dug up. I don't mind them digging in the gravel, its easy enough to put back, but it was annoying when they went past the gravel and into the dirt, mixing the gravel with dirt into a god awful mess. Glad they don't do that anymore.
The bed was made by the people that made the metal panels. Its a galvanized steel frame with some type of coated wood in the middle. Its strong, I can jump up and down on it. Its heavy, so they don't move it around, and its non-stick
My old flooring was concrete, and even though all my dogs are kennel broke, the floors always seemed hard to keep clean so the dogs smelled and looked good. Our new ones , we did different, indoor are concrete floors but the out door runs are not. We dug really deep, then put wire on the bottom with pea gravel poured pretty deep. Love it, wouldn't do it any other way.
Edited by Claire Stadt (09/06/2008 02:18 PM)
Edit reason: to ad: It's also pretty econonmical also
steve strom Webboard User Reg: 03-17-2006
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I don't know if it's actually true but I was told a long time ago the pea gravel is good for their feet. Kind of a streching exercise for them. Our dogs don't spend much time in the kennel but everyone we have had is fine on the gravel part.
Rick Miller Webboard User Reg: 05-24-2007
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Thank you all for your input. I talked to the landlord and he told me that he has never seen a dog pen that the dog didn't tear up, and that the pebbles wouldn't work. So, he said I should just leave it as it is (grass) or just put down some hay. What do you all think? (I just read that this could increase the risk of worms...any thing I can do to solve that?)
I plan on building a dog house based on the version I found on the main leerburg site: http://leerburg.com/knlpup.htm And the reccomendation of using the bed of sand with blocks on top as described at the beggining of the article sounds great, but I don't think the landlord will let me do it.
The pen I bought is actually iron, not chainlink. So, I can use the garage and a neighbor's fence to make a run, then put the iron pen around the back of the garage to the fence to close off a large rectangle attatched to the run. I would really like the large area afforded by such a construction, but what is the point if it is wormy?
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