Product Description
Everything you need to know to build a palace for your dogs—From drawing up the plans to buying the lumber to sinking the fence posts to nailing the utility hooks to the wall, everything is covered in this comprehensive look at building a home for your best friend. Tips on kennel operations, and how they should shape your plans, help readers choos the design that's right for them and keep their kennels running smoothly once they have been built. There are separate sections on hobby kennels and boarding kennels, with ideas for each type that can be put to good use in both.
Dog World called this book, "A first-rate practical guide for anyone who loves dogs.... It is also a splendid essay on what it means to keep a dog—your own or someone else's."
From the Back Cover
Kennels & Kenneling, 2nd Edition, brings you exciting, updated information on the business and hobby of kenneling. Whether keeping multiple dogs is one of the basic requirements of your livelihood or the natural result of an absorbing pastime, you need a practical system in order to house, handle, and manage all the dogs in your care.
That′s exactly what you can expect to find out with all the reliable advice and wisdom available in this second edition of Kennels & Kenneling:
- A Guide for Professionals and Hobbyists.
- Discover: Strategies for planning, designing, constructing, and operating a successful kennel
- Information on how to make running any kennel easier and more enjoyable
- Solutions that you can use for both hobby and professional kennels
- Tips on keeping all your visitors happy and healthy
- Quick answers to the most common kenneling and client problems
- Easy ways to maintain the information and records necessary to run your kennel smoothly
- Tried and true policies that are sure to keep your canine guests visiting your kennel again and again
