{"id":20994,"date":"2020-11-30T17:50:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/?p=20994"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"kennel-update-k2-is-move-in-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/kennel-update-k2-is-move-in-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennel Update: K2 is move-in ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago Debbie Ramey, who rescues dogs and horses was renovating her horse barn and had a bunch of 5 feet wide by 6 feet high American Kennel Club welded wire kennel panels in there that she wanted to be rid of.\u00a0 She asked me if I could make use of them here at Piney Mountain Foster Care.\u00a0 Oh, yes, I could!\u00a0 So she donated them to us and my friend, Trucker Tim, and I went down there with his truck and trailer, loaded all those panels on his trailer, and hauled them back here.<\/p>\n

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K4 For short term and emergency housing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tim lives near by.\u00a0 Tim also has a barn.\u00a0 A barn with lots of extra space inside.\u00a0 He offered to let me store this trove of panels in his barn where they would be out of the weather until I found ways to use them all.\u00a0 I used 6 of them (one with a door in it) to build kennel 4.\u00a0 The rest went into Tim’s barn.<\/p>\n

With the north wall of Kennel 2 Inside complete I just need a front panel for it to make it usable.\u00a0 The 10 foot long kennel panels I have on hand are too long for this application.\u00a0 One of those worked okay on Kennel 1 while I built a proper front panel with door, but in this position it just won’t work.\u00a0 I am rapidly filling up the empty space that was created by selling\u00a0 the stack of white oak lumber.\u00a0 So I went down to Tim’s place and retrieved a few of those 5 foot panels.\u00a0 I mounted 3 conduit hangers, which I use to attach the tubing frames to the concrete walls with concrete screws, in the opening.\u00a0 Then I used those as a hinge for the 5 foot panel.\u00a0 I hold the other end tight to the wall on the other side of the opening with rubber straps to keep the dog inside.\u00a0 This is just until I get a proper front panel with door built.<\/p>\n

Then I got Josie’s Karunda dog bed and water bowl out of her outside kennel (K1) and moved it into the new inside space (K2) — leaving\u00a0 the barrier I have over the small door between inside and outside areas because Blade is still in\u00a0 K2 Outside.\u00a0 I took out the small igloo style dog house that was in K1 Outside for Josie and assembled a large one in there for Blade.<\/p>\n

Josie had been running in the play yard while I did all this.\u00a0 Now it was time to get her back into K1 outside and let Blade out for his turn.\u00a0 While he played with Blondie Bear I removed his Karunda and water bowl out onto the sidewalk outside the kennels, closed the outside door to K2 and removed the barrier between K2 Outside and K2 Inside.\u00a0 Then I removed\u00a0 the barrier to K1 Outside and moved Josie into K2 Inside through the kennel building and secured the makeshift door\/front panel.\u00a0 I put the K1 barrier back into place and went outside.<\/p>\n

I moved Blade’s bed and water bowl into K1 Outside and called Blade to come get his treat and go into his room.<\/p>\n

He came running, stopped short and gave me the side-eye, “That’s not MY room.\u00a0 What are you trying to pull?”<\/p>\n

The short version is that he became Blade the Belligerent<\/strong><\/em> and I had quite a time getting him into his new room.\u00a0 But that’s another story.<\/p>\n

Josie, on the other hand, was delighted with her new expanded living space.<\/p>\n