Can you keep puppies in outside kennels?

[Jdakin95 0]

Well not a kennel as such but my stone shed? was thinking of putting a heater in there

[BBHLFC 0]

as long as its warm ...i had mine outside with the bitch.trouble is when you get a gap and the wind whistles through.you dont say how old they are.or if its just one, keep em well fed and summat to snuggle up in.

try get a heat lamp to aim down on them and try get the bed just up off the floor.

 

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[toddy2010 1]

i bought a pup at 6weeks but kept her in the house untill she was 10weeeks but i bred a litter of pups last year and were outside from day 1 hoipe this helps mate.

[Jdakin95 0]

How do bedlington whippets handle the cold? would of thought pretty good due to there long coats

[jonny10 20]

ive gota saluki/bedlington x whippet/greyhound mate and it dusnt feel the cold it curls up in the snow in the winter and sleeps in it instead of its kennel some days believe it or not

[Catcher 1 639]

New pup going into this outside kennel.Cant put it in with the lurchers

 

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[coursingmad 0]

Well not a kennel as such but my stone shed? was thinking of putting a heater in there

they b fine.nights r not that cold to kill pups in stone shed, spring is here now, i had 6 litters in winter, not even heat lamp, thogh i now use one, for when i bring my dogs back and thyre wet, will make them stronger in long run, jmo. dont worry, r they workers or house pets?

[skycat 6,173]

Stone sheds are very cold: keeping the cold in in the winter and the sun out in the summer: put a wooden box about the size of a tumble dryer with a lid and pop hole in one side in a corner of the shed: raise it off the floor a couple of inches: put loads of clean straw inside the box and your pup should be warm and snug. I always put the pop hole off centre so the dog has a corner out of draughts to nest into. No dog, let alone a pup, does well in a cold bed.

[lawrence 657]

sound advice as always from skycat. forget the rubbish that keeping pups in the cold will make them hardier when older.

[kill um with crisps 7]

My one lived in a shed from birth to 6 weeks of age when i collected him. He was in a sectioned off corner of the shed with plenty of straw to bed down in, a mother not far away and a heatlamp over the top of him. He and his brothers and sisters all survived and flourished quite happily with that set up.