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I hope you enjoy this tour. Perhaps it will give you some ideas
for your own show kennel.
The front entrance: double insulated glass door and window. Game
meat freezer kept out front.
 
Restroom, kennel fridge, towel cabinet. In the restroom there are 2 gas water heaters so that there is
no hot water shortage for cleaning or bathing. Next, there is the
kitchen, complete with stove, fridge, food storage tub, prep table
with sink and faucet. The main food storage is out of sight just
left of the stove. There is a cabinet for bowls and utensils. In
the foreground is one of 2 topped pens that can be used for grooming
dogs or for hospital care.
Here is a view of the small, topped pens. To the right are the double
doors leading to the interior.
The next photo shows the tub and grooming area. There is a tool cabinet
and table on the (unpictured) wall which is just below the large
window you saw on the front entrance. Behind is the double door
entrance to the main kennel.
  
Here
are some photos looking down the kennel from the double doors.
In the first picture you can see the air conditioner, the overhead
fan & lights, and the skylight. The second picture shows all
the young dogs. It is a puppy pen, with removable divider
panels. The last picture shows a normal interior pen (with a 4yr.
old Griffin standing at the front). The materials used are 2" square
steel bars with heavy-gauge horse panel welded to the frame. Each
interior pen is 4'x4' square with the divider panels bolted to
the wall studs. Doors to the outside runs are cut in the wall and
covered with a swinging panel of plexiglas and a guillotine door
of the same wall material that is raised and lowered by ropes through
pulleys attached to the ceiling. The extra plexiglas door offers
additional insulation from the weather (seen better in the pictures
below).
This
picture gives you a good view of the eastside runs. Each exterior
run is 16' long, 4' wide. 5' tall. A panel can be used to top each
run if needed. Everything
sits on a huge cement pad that is angled away from the walls to
the edge of the covered walkway fronting the entire structure.
The steel door in the middle allows that pen to be used as an alley.
There are windows above each run. The roof is a combination of
asphalt shingles
and corrugated steel sheets. There is a rock-filled
drainage area between the walkway and the play yard. Look closely
at the back of the last run and you can see the plexiglas shield
on hinges. All around the roof perimeter are halogen lights to light
the play yard. There is a set of double lights just above the center
door to illuminate the runs. The construction of the opposite, west
runs is identical to this east side.
  
The
first picture is looking north from the outside and front entrance.
The second is a view through the outside east runs to the play
yard. The third is a view through the outside west runs to the west side play yard. The yards are now covered in
grass. Every yard is completely fenced. The west yard is cross-fenced
into 3 play yards (below).
 
These 3 views from the garden show the west
yard.
Today, 100 Ponderosa pine
trees surround the fence perimeter.
That concludes the tour of my kennels and
some of the property. Come back and visit anytime!
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