Booth for a dog: how to make a house for a pet

A dog is a friend of a person, and friends need to be surrounded with care and attention. If your dog lives not only in the house, but also in the garden, you must organize a comfortable dwelling for him. Moreover, a dog booth can simultaneously perform two functions: to protect the animal from the weather and decorate the yard.

Do not know how to make a dog kennel on your own, what to look for when buying it and how to decorate a dog house so that it turns into a bright addition to a personal design? In all these issues, "House of Dreams" will help to understand its readers.

What should be a booth for dogs

Before buying or building a self-contained booth for a dog, let us consider in more detail what requirements it should meet:

1. Size

How comfortable a dog will feel in a kennel, depends primarily onits dimensions. While in the booth, the dog should stand free, unfold and stretch out its full length. If you build or buy a dwelling for an adult animal that has already ceased to grow, start from the fact that the depth and height of the booth should exceed the length and height of the dog by about 5-10 centimeters. As for the width of the canine house, then, as a rule, this indicator is equated with the height of the structure.

If the booth is made for a puppy, be guided by the dimensions to which, according to pedigree data, the animal should grow up.

Many owners believe that the larger the booth, the more it will appeal to the pet. However, this opinion is extremely erroneous. The fact is that in the winter in a booth, not the size of the animal will be cold. In addition, in a too wide and high booth the dog can not feel protected. If you still want the dog house to look not like an ordinary kennel, but as a grandiose design, it's better to split the interior space into several segments, making for the dog some kind of separate "rooms".

2. Material

If desired, a box for a dog can be made from almost any material - wood, plywood, timber, plastic, stone, brick, etc. But keep in mind that:

• first, the material should not be too synthetic, becausethe dog will have to breathe harmful pairs;
• second, it is necessary that the material is well tolerated contact with sediments.

Dogs are most often made of wood. The advantages of this material are manifested in its naturalness, availability and strength. However, it is not uncommon for a tree to attract dangerous pests - mites and parasites, so a wooden box for a dog should be regularly treated with protective means.

A beautiful box can be constructed and from improvised materials. For example, in the able hands of an obsolete barrel, a cistern or a curbstone easily transform into an equipped dog house.

3. Warming

If the animal lives on the street all year round, you need to take care of the warming of the booth in advance. In regions with long and harsh winters, full-scale insulation can not be avoided with the help of foam plastic, mineral wool or other material. In this case, the heater is best used as the core of the walls, closing it from two sides with the main material.

If in your locality the moderate climate prevails, it is enough to insulate only the floor and the roof.

In addition, make a warm booth for the dog can be made of a beam thickness of at least 10cm. In this case, it is only necessary to seal all the cracks and corners well.

4. Design

The traditional booth has the form of a rectangular box with a gable or flat roof. But this form is not an axiom, and you can completely depart from the given canons by performing a booth, for example, in the form of a miniature house or mansion.

However, in the construction of the structure still have to take into account some points:

• first, the doghouse must be demountable. At a minimum, it should be equipped with a removable roof, and, as a maximum, all its walls should be easily removed from the floor. This is necessary so that you can clean and disinfect the structure at any time;
• secondly, the booth design should be equipped with a small elevation, otherwise the floor will freeze in winter, and rot in the summer;
• and, thirdly, if the roof of the booth is flat, note that the animal probably wants to climb it. Therefore, the roof material should be particularly strong.

If a booth is designed for a large dog, you can combine it with an open-air cage. In this case, you do not have to tie the animal to the chain when the guests come to the house.

A booth for dogs as an element of design

In the West, original dog booths have long been not perceived as a curiosity. Owners of large and small dogs tend to ensure that the decor of their home is as much as possible to the landscape design and style of the infield.

For example, the well-known company Well Appointed House regularly produces booths for dogs, which are replicas of luxury mansions and villas. Also in the assortment of the company you can find beautiful dog booths, made in the form of futuristic buildings, village houses, vans and other interesting structures.

It is not known whether such booths can instill aesthetic taste to their inhabitants, however, they will surely become a worthy decoration of the countryside.

If you want your dog to live in a similar structure, it's not necessary to spend hundreds of dollars to buy a brand kennel. You can make a beautiful box with your own hands, just paint the design in bright colors, adding it with carved elements, house signs and other details.

As the dog booth is primarily designed to provide comfort to the animal, pay close attention to its safety and quality. In addition, remember that the dog house can not be installed on both heavily blown and too bright places.