Registered: May 2013
Location: arkansas
Posts: 41

I am new to the coonhunting my sons and I have purchased 3 dogs we built 3 kennels with panels but are on dirt am wanting opinions of the best floor I was
Thinking concrete but afraid their pads of their feet would get sore thought about river gravel but am thinking that would be hard to keep clean so all opinions are welcome dont mind leaving it on dirt just they are digging in the corners and dont want to spend my time filling holes or looki.g for dogs

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Registered: May 2005
Location: oklahoma
Posts: 5034

PUT 2X4 WELDED WIRE DOWN BOUT 2FT WIDE ALL THE WAY ARROUND YOUR PEN, FAST THE EDGE NEXT TO YOUR PEN WITH CLIPS OR BAILIN WIRE SO IT WONT MOVE, THUS STOPS DIGGING AND OR EXCAPING. I PREFER DIRT FLOOR

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Registered: Aug 2012
Location: blue knob,pa
Posts: 1296

I bought 2 kennels & set them apart so all I had to do was make a span with a door for the center pen.
I put down used brick over shale (cheap) lots of drainage easy to clean
I put wood post & footballs in for the boys to wiz on instead of the cage wire & post
They have inside dog boxes I'm still working on it but when finished I hope to have outside boxes for them as well
each run is 5'X15' with 12' of it under roof I did not have to shovel snow this year!!!
I used cul lumber from local lumber yard & mixed or open bundles of shingles that they just wanted rid of it also was very cheap
In colder weather the water bucket sat inside on top of boxes & they didn't freeze up

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