Where you keep your dogs.

[bahamutt99]

Know one answered my question so, Ill just tell you what I am going to do. Moving into an Apt and gonna have an indoor kennel setup one dog possibly two (would have two seperate kennels in this case.) Good idea or bad?? all opinions are welcomed.

I guess I'm Know One, because I answered from the perspective of someone who has always lived in urban/suburban areas until just this year. If you've got room to set up a kennel inside a house, do it. Others have. I haven't.

Im wondering what you guys that live in the city or apartments do with your dogs, I know some leave theirs in crates while they're gone but what if you got a wild one that cant stay put for 8hours like that?? Anyone have kennels setup indoors??? Very interested in hearing from ya, thks.

I don't live in a city, but I do keep my dogs inside. Yes, they are crated while we're away. While I'm here, I separate them in different rooms. Right now Terra is in the bedroom with me, Priest is on the other side of a barrier in the crate room (I can hear him chewing a bone), and Loki is out in the main part of the house. Our plan is to eventually set up runs outside so they can spend part of their day out there. But I have heard of people setting up kennels in their basements and whatnot.

[Iverson's Pits]

I HAVE A FRIEND WHO HAS FIVE 5'x10' KENNEL RUNS INSIDE HIS HOUSE....3 IN ONE AREA AND TWO IN THE OTHER. ARE THESE "BAD CONDITIONS" COMPARED TO THE SAME SETUP BEING OUT DOORS????? I PERSONALLY WOULDN'T DO IT...BUT IF I HAD TO HAVE MY DOGS, AND COULDN'T GET A YARD....I GUESS I CAN UNDERSTAND IT. HIS DOGS ARE WELL KEPT, WELL CONDITIONED, AND FULLY SOCIALLIZED. HIM AND HIS TWO SONS KEEP THE POTTY ROTAION GOING AND THERE IS ALWAYS AT LEAST ONE DOG WALKING AROUND THE HOUSE OR CURLED UP ON THE COUCH.

[Marty]

Please don't disregard these dogs....



I got two in the house and Lilbit is one of them

[chinasmom]

NOTK. Not really dissing the fact that you want a dog, but how big is your Apt. going to be? I was thinking more along the lines of adaquate room. If you can handle two in that situation from pups, house train and crate train, more power to you. It's just not something I would want to do. I have China inside and she has never given me any trouble because she was trained. I have a five room house. If you have the time and room, go for it. You will need to make adjustments. Oh the joy of ownership...

[NOTK]

well once i get things goin mayb ill post some pics

[SAM_I_AM]

well once i get things goin mayb ill post some pics

please do, I am intrested to see how this turns out.

[Southerncharm]

well once i get things goin mayb ill post some pics

I would also like to see this and see how it all works out.

[Southerncharm]

Well these are no 'great' pictures.
But, this is Tyson's place.

The chain; not sure how much it weighs? I just know alot of people ask me that, though.



He has some weight on him, but the past 2 months we've had some 'family' issues and he's not getting his 3 walks a day just playing in the back yard.
We'll start back on his excercise maybe next week if everything has settled down by that time.

[Southerncharm]

Please don't disregard these dogs....



I got two in the house and Lilbit is one of them

Awwww.
Haha. I couldn't imagine Tyson being inside.

[rmontheweb]

I got to dogs in my apt. 1 is an 11 week old pup other is a 16month old dog and its fine they stay in the crate for 8hrs a day while i am at work then take them out for walk when i come home and leave them lose in the apt while i am home

[cutt]

heres are old setup..replaced some barrels with houses made from wooden pallets...

[Rickf3]

I only have 1 dog, and keep him pretty much the way you would keep any dog that is an in-door dog. I walk him to an empty lot on the side of my house for messes, than the only time he is running in my yard, which is wood fence, is while I or my wife are outside with him.

Let me teach you my lesson on wood fence and pitbulls. I put up this fence my self, with tender care at the start of the summer. When it was finally finished, I was still on the schedule I mentioned above, but wanted to see what would happen if I left him in the yard.

I left him out there and stood in my kitchen for an hour or two the first few times and he basically sat by the fence door, and would bark once in a while but things were seemingly working out and I figured once he got over it he would enjoy laying out in the yard for a few hours each day.

Well I went out for 30 min, my wife home and suppose to be checking on him every once in a while. When I got back, he was sitting on my front stairs and a whole about the size of his body had been chewed thru my fence.

Moral: wooden fences are the wrong way to keep a pitbull or most dogs for that matter.

Also, my dog is very much a house dog, and getting very old so he is pretty happy to lay in my office most of the day. He gets walked 3 times a day at least because I smoke and don't like to smoke in-doors

Rick

[Nikita]

my dog stay with me he sleeps in my bed

[Dr_jitsu]

My dogs, 8 and 9 months old spend most of their time inside in crates but they get outside in my backyard for 3 45 minute to 1:15 hour periods per day. They are a female and male combo and play somewhat well together on tie outs, always supervised. I never leave them alone in the back yard for more than 3 minutes. My last dog would eat through a wood fence in less than 3 minutes to get to another dog. Never leave these dogs w/ out a proper tie out/kennel in a back yard.

As they are getting older I am starting to work them outside on the bike, fetch etc. I am building chain link kennels since their play is starting to escalate into outright combat. I will probably have to just hve them in their outside kennels 3 hours a day.

As they get older and more mature they will start to get more time loose indide the house although they must earn that right.

I am building chain link kennels so that they can spend more time in the back yard unsupervised, but never for more than an hour and never together for long enough for one dog to seriously damage another. My female is dominant but my male may decide to stand up to her in the near future.

[JBlazeRx7]

I have my dog's inside. In the morning i takem each for a walk atleast for a 1/2hr just to empty them out. When i get home from work i take a walk for like an 1hr or so all the while keeping them on that pullin me mode. When I'm off I take them over to my friends yard and i rigged this portable spring rope that i could set up quick cause they could flirt for HOURS! I don't know about you guy's but my arm get's tierd playin tug with them. lol I love it tho. and it's great to see them go at the spring rope!

[lyuhberri]

Sorry to bring up a post that hasn't been touched in a few days, but I wanted to say that I enjoy seeing the set ups everyone has! I am planning my outdoor set ups for when I have my own property, and these pictures are so helpful!

[ReverendYin]

You don't get many trespassers, do you? LOL I know most pits don't have a strong drive to guard property, but that one up front there looks awfully intimidating. Intimidating, but handsome

Hello SC. If you do a search in the gallery of yards and setups, you should get some pretty good results. Also check the forums. Hope this helps. Two of mine are on chain setups. In the winter, I put pinestraw in the houses with cedar chips to help keep them warm. Here's an old pic. Getting new house's next week. I hope to make them if Hubby still has time off work.

[chinasmom]

No.. not too many. lol The one up front is a dog that I rehomed to who I thought were good people. I found him a few months later with no shelter, food or water bowl and on a three foot piece of chain. He had lost about twenty pounds. I just put him in the car and brought him back home. He's my big Merle boy. "MUTT" or so I'm told. lol I love him.

[performanceknls]

My dogs stay in their crates during the day if I'm not home. When I let them out I rotate who goes out in the dog runs. We have 7 areas where the dogs can run around. These are my kennels when my husband first built them.
Warning just in case a newbie reads this.... These dogs were raised not to fence fight. They do not all get along with each other but they know better that to fence fight. They are never in runs if I'm not home. I have a friend that has a similar set up but he has to use a hot wire to keep them from fence fighting. I have a dog run by it's self for those dogs that can't get along in back.


There is another run now where that trash can is. Because that run has a tree I have to be careful not to put a destructive dog there. They will eat the tree.

[masta of game]

Its called rock dust

im going to need that very soon, how much do they cost, do they charge per kg or bags..