Dog enclosures

wirehairmax

Anyone any good contacts for suppliers of dog enclosures? I have a 1 yr old GWP and he is wrecking my head trying to keep him penned in. I need some panels of anti-climb fencing. At the moment he is penned in with site fencing with chain link around the bottom but if he's not breaking holes through it he climbs over it. I've got prices off some websites for enclosures for €500 for a 3m x 2m enclosure. I would like to buy the panels and adapt them to suit my own needs. Anyone able to point me in the right direction or give me some ideas

demonloop

From looking at your photo, there's frig all thats gonna keep that boy penned up!

endasmail

get another site fence and stick it on top
i have the same for my pointers,their unreal ,between fitting out through the gaps and burrowing
escape artists they are

fodda

Whats his name.....Steve Mcqueen:D

The only way with him is an electric fence, just a few wires at the top.

But you have a clever boyo there, worth his weight in gold.

Chloroplast

you have to be careful with electric fencing coz some breeds of dog have a high pain threshold and can end up doing themselves a lot of damage from it.

maybe try get a few metres of chain and a few swivel hooks, enough for him to roam around in the pen, and if hes walked enough everyday then when its time to go back into the pen he should just chill out and lie down, rather than trying to jump the fence.

whippetman

I would say as much excersize as u can give him and see if he will chill out a bit then. If that dont work a friend of mine used a shock collar and after just a few shots whenever he seen him try to escape the dog gave up in less than a week

irish setter

endasmail wrote: »

get another site fence and stick it on top
i have the same for my pointers,their unreal ,between fitting out through the gaps and burrowing
escape artists they are

+1 to the site fence or run chain link over the top. he will climb any enclosure you'll buy and you'll have to cover the top anyway

sonofthegun

we picked up second hand site fences in good nick got 12 of them for 150 euro but same as the lads we put a roof on and also set them on a concrete base so no way out whole project cost 200 euro and its a big pen

deeksofdoom

Chain link is the only thing that's going to stop him. A friend of mine had the same problem with a dog like that before and he put a chain on him. He came home to find the dog had hung himself.

I have chain link over the top of my run.

terminator2

put a roof on it.....DAH.....:D

EPointer=Birdss

sonofthegun wrote: »

we picked up second hand site fences in good nick got 12 of them for 150 euro but same as the lads we put a roof on and also set them on a concrete base so no way out whole project cost 200 euro and its a big pen

1st of all thats a great photo & the look on his face as if to say
"What? I'm not doing anything" is priceless.

But SOTG & sorry to go off thread but where did you get the 2nd hand fences if you don't mind me asking??

greenpeter

Beware of security fencing, a dog can push trough and end up choking. Happened a friend springer not a nice thing.

EPointer=Birdss

greenpeter wrote: »

Beware of security fencing, a dog can push trough and end up choking. Happened a friend springer not a nice thing.

TBH I'm after it for a chicken run

greenpeter

EPointer=Birdss wrote: »

TBH I'm after it for a chicken run

Poor chickens have feeling to:p

LetFly

From what I can see, you have two options.

Put a roof on the existing run, or at least run a couple of strands of wire around the top angled in to stop him getting over the top.

Get an enclosure with vertical bars instead of mesh. He most definitely will not be able to climb the vertical bars.

Dusty87

greenpeter wrote: »

Beware of security fencing, a dog can push trough and end up choking. Happened a friend springer not a nice thing.

My fella managed to break a couple of strands and lift it up. So i put two 4inch blocks where he was doing it. Fecker lifted them too, so now its steel nailed down with wall plate straps

deeksofdoom

My springer went out through the bottom of my dog run like a bullet, she figured out that she could keep tugging on a couple of strands of the chain link and if she could get her head out her body would follow. I had to get 2 sheets of 2 inch weld mesh and reinforce the bottom of the run. She used to climb up the side of it aswell but I reckon she must have taken a fall coz she stopped it.

sonofthegun

EPointer=Birdss wrote: »

1st of all thats a great photo & the look on his face as if to say
"What? I'm not doing anything" is priceless.

But SOTG & sorry to go off thread but where did you get the 2nd hand fences if you don't mind me asking??

got them off a site across the road from were i live in co tipp the developer is kind of gone to the wall he had about 30 or 40 of the on the site i know him so i asked him could i buy a few of them
p.s love the hat cam thread best thing on here all year should be a prize of that thread sotg

gavlaw

put a run of tin around the inside put it high enough up so he cant jump it have it wide enough that he cant pass it.worked for me until i bought a new pen

flanum

a few more sggestions and this should be stickied maybe?

maigheo

hi all im building a pen at the moment, my mesh will be 5ft high will this be enough for a setter bitch? Im wondering whats the best thing to do with the dog waste, i built my own doggy toilet similiar to the ones you see online or in some garden stores, but its much bigger. i have dug a large hole in the pen, i filled this with 16in of stone, got a kitchen bin cut the bottom out and bored a good few holes around the sides, put the bin in the hole upright, filled in the hole around the bin with stone, put a rectangular manhole on top and concrete over the lot. I have another smaller manhole at the back corner of the pen, the lid of this is hinged so it can be opened and closed without touching it. when washing and cleaning the pen all the water and waste will go into this small manhole and be piped into the dog toilet. when i close this manhole all the rainwater from the pen will go into a normal rainwater water gullie beside the manhole linked to the mains. (im afraid in times of heavy rain this excesss rainwater could cause the toilet to back up)
it may be hard to picture it but basically its a little septic tank under the pen where everything will break down and decompose back into the earth. Hopefully. Haven't tried it yet as im still looking for a pup. Has anybody tried anything similiar? will it work?

gavlaw

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this is my new pen its not finished yet still have to put in the dog boxes i built the pen in front of a manhole and put a hole on the side of it i put a gullly at the back and angled it to the manhole so all the poop an rain water runs into the same sewer as the house

thelurcher

gavlaw wrote: »

HPIM2806.JPG
this is my new pen its not finished yet still have to put in the dog boxes i built the pen in front of a manhole and put a hole on the side of it i put a gullly at the back and angled it to the manhole so all the poop an rain water runs into the same sewer as the house

Anyone know what the council/corporation view is on having the waste from a kennels go in the main sewer system?
From what I've heard they wouldn't be too happy
I'm not on the mains myself - too far out.

yog1

where do you all get the steel work done for your dog pens, building a few pens of my own and just want to know who all i can price for them, was going to get a guy i know local to do the steel(had him do other stuff for the farm as well). i'm in tyrone so any business close to it would be good, its more for the design than the price,

mallards

I got mine from Sperrin Trailers. I bought some from a crowd in Kildare and another in Antrim. The welds on both started to come apart after two years. I got four large sections made up in Sperrin three years ago and they still look as good as new.

Mallards.

gavlaw

yog1 wrote: »

where do you all get the steel work done for your dog pens, building a few pens of my own and just want to know who all i can price for them, was going to get a guy i know local to do the steel(had him do other stuff for the farm as well). i'm in tyrone so any business close to it would be good, its more for the design than the price,

currys car breakers in derry has top quality pens good heavy steel structure an the price is reasonable mine is nothing compared to them

gavlaw

thelurcher wrote: »

Anyone know what the council/corporation view is on having the waste from a kennels go in the main sewer system?
From what I've heard they wouldn't be too happy
I'm not on the mains myself - too far out.

my friend has the same layout as me he got reported to the council by his neighbour they sent a man out to check the hygiene of the kennels an the council was happy and they let him keep them :P

Liam_D

Here is the one I threw together for the setter, I got the two sides from a mate for nothing, gave it a lick of hammerite after a good going over with a wire brush and the roof cost me £100 in materials. I just have to put a drain in lonking to that manhole as at the minute the water lays in the corner of the garden out of the picture.
Its 11' x 6' and about 4' high so it needed the roof as he would be able to climb out in no time.