For your pet, who protects your home from uninvited guests, you need comfortable conditions for life and service. Be sure to take care of installing a booth on the site, where the dog can hide from snow and rain, and in winter hide from frost.
You can both buy a ready box and do it yourself. Regardless of this, you need to know what types of booths for dogs are and how to choose the right house for a particular pet.
Choosing a booth for your dog
The most simple booth for a dog is a kennel, which is a small rectangular shape with a hole covered with a dense cloth. A more beautiful and comfortable booth for a dog consists of a vestibule and a bed itself. However, the fantasy of the owners is not limited to anything, so that in some areas the booth can be compared with a castle or a family estate.
If you take a more advanced method of selection, then you need to consider booths in accordance with such criteria:
- material of manufacture;
- level of insulation;
- design;
- form of the roof.
Materials for making a booth for a dog are wood, logs, bricks, a combination of bricks and wood. The most common, of course, booths for a dog made of wood.
As for the level of insulation, the booths can be summer (completely without insulation), winter (with insulation), heating booths. If you live in the middle band, a warmed dog booth is a prerequisite for a comfortable stay in her pet.
According to the shape of the roof, they are divided into:
- booths with a flat roof - the most simple in design and manufacture;
- booths with a gable roof - attic can be used to store a collar, muzzle, toys, etc .;
- a booth with an opening roof - it is convenient to ventilate and clean.
More sophisticated owners equip the roof for their pet with the use of roll grass, which serves as an additional protective layer from the heat and cold.
Choose the right dimensions
It is important that the size and design of the booth are consistent with its owner. The dog must safely enter the booth, and also be able to turn around in it and lie without feeling constrained.
For a lightweight choice of design and size, all booths are conventionally divided into the size of the future inhabitant, which can be small, medium and large.
So, for small dogs it is enough that the kennel should have the following dimensions:
- height - 600 mm;
- width - 550 mm;
- length - 700 mm.
For dogs of medium size , the booth should be with the following dimensions:
- height - 750 mm;
- width - 800 mm;
- length - 1200 mm.
A booth for a large dog should be of this size:
- height - 1100 mm;
- width - 1000 mm;
- length - 1400 mm.
Of course, these dimensions are approximate and averaged. You can also make or order a box according to the individual dimensions of your pet. The rules for choosing the right sizes are as follows:
- The height of the kennel should be equal to the height of the dog +10 cm, and if there is a high mat or litter , they are taken into account.
- Depth is calculated in accordance with the size of the dog from the withers to the tips of the forepaws, when the dog lies on the floor + 15 cm;
- The width of the booth is calculated taking into account the distance from the tip of the dog's nose to the tail bone +15 cm.
Another important point is the location of the booth. It should be a warm, dry, windless, bright space at some elevation. The dog must have a good view of the protected area. If it is on a leash, then the radius of its movement should be free from branches, bushes, trees.
Of course, if your pet is very small, then he will probably live in the house, and he needs a home booth for the dog to have his own corner and feel protected.
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