For those who live in a country house and hold a dog the good a canine friend enclosure can become the best decision. Exactly here it will be able quietly to move, eat, grow up posterity and at the same time will not disturb none of members of household or guests. It is possible to build the dogs enclosure independently.
It is required to you
- - materials for a floor (concrete, asphalt, boards);
- - materials for walls (metal rods, a grid, a lattice and also boards, a professional flooring);
- - materials for a roof (wooden beams, a tile, slate, roofing material);
- - box.
Instruction
1. Determine the open-air cage size, for this purpose measure a dog in withers. If the dog small, is less than 50 cm, enough area of 6 square meters will be her. For a dog of 50 - 65 cm in height provide the open-air cage about 8 sq.m., and to a dog higher than 65 cm can appear a little even 10 "squares". For several dogs increase the area at least by 1.5 times.
2. Choose the place for the open-air cage, it has to be the spacious dry platform, with sufficient airing and illumination. Pay attention to existence of irritants if you plan to breed puppies, excess alarms for a dog will be absolutely to anything.
3. Think over a structure of the open-air cage. For winter accommodation surely provide the small box, and for oshchenivsheysya boughs the cozy warmed lodge with a double entrance has to be ready. The higher you will make an open-air cage ceiling, the it will be more convenient to move away him.
4. Begin construction of the open-air cage for dogs. Designate and mark perimeter. If you approach construction seriously, flood the concrete base on depth of 0.5 meters. As a last resort, make a floor of boards. That the floor could be washed from a hose, make a bias towards an exit. An earth floor not only cold, but also comprises danger that the dog can dig the course under one of fences.
5. Lift open-air cage walls. At least make one wall transparent, of metal rods or a lattice. An optimal solution – the smooth metal tubes or bars made at identical distance with a step of 50 - 100 mm (depending on the size of dogs). If dogs not big, use a lattice or a grid chain-link, but consider that the grid a chain-link is not really reliable and every time when dogs want to jump on it will rattle. Execute blank walls from a tree, slate, a professional flooring, one of walls can be a wall of the house or a fence.
6. If you plan the covered open-air cage, make a roof. For this purpose strengthen rafters, furring and cover with any suitable material: slate, tile, roofing material, galvanized iron. Height of a roof has to be such that the person could be in the open-air cage to the utmost.
7. Provide dogs with warm boxes and feeding troughs. For a dog with puppies provide the good spacious room with a double entrance (and also an entrance for you). Anyway the box has to be warmed therefore upholster walls with warm material from within – felt, an old carpet, etc. The box with a flat roof on which it could lie is very convenient for a dog.
8. The door of the open-air cage has to be closed on a latch, but surely provide more safe lock to have an opportunity to close dogs when is not at home you.