ditch / hedge dog

[breay 0]

is this normal over the past month my 10 month old lurcher will not kennel up if you leave him in the kennel all day(whilst at work) he howls very long and loud. this has got me a letter from the council because one of my neihbours made a complaint. i have to leave him in the garden with the kennel door open for shelter. he will not shelter in the kennel but prefers to sleep under the hedge or trees even in the nastiest weather. he is also a theif will steel anything you put down is this normal only happy when in a hedge or dich

[marko 30]

it depends how muc`h freedom the dog is getting is the kennel and run a bit small some just like plenty of room to potter about a bit and dont worry about the thieving all perfectly normal its what lurchers are good at.

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

takes me back 10 yrs..

i had the same problem, the dog kept jumping out of his dog run and sleeping in the snow.

i got reported twice.

i ended up asking a naughbour to let him out in the yard twice a day while i was at work

[Neal 1,866]

When my kelpie bitch was a pup she used to to squeeze through the bars of her run and make a bed under a sack of compost and some old plastic crates and my last lurcher was forever dragging his blanket out of his kennel to sleep out in the open; oh well, each to their own.

[breay 0]

he is walked about 5 miles at night and i cycle 5 miles in a morning sprinting with him on a private road after, still not happy in the kennels his run is 6ft 8ft and his kennel is same resided to the fact he can live in the garden much to my missus anoyance

[Guest SJM]

My terriers are the same If I am at home I leave the kennel doors open and let them run around in the paddock and I very often look out the back window to see what they are up to and the 3 of them are lying curled up in a corner rather than go inside their kennels, even when its pissing down

[gnipper 6,460]

It has to be proper cold to get my border in his kennel, either that or when he sees the hose pipe He will sleep in the middle of the lawn in proper rain without batting an eye lid

[juckler123 707]

is this normal over the past month my 10 month old lurcher will not kennel up if you leave him in the kennel all day(whilst at work) he howls very long and loud. this has got me a letter from the council because one of my neihbours made a complaint. i have to leave him in the garden with the kennel door open for shelter. he will not shelter in the kennel but prefers to sleep under the hedge or trees even in the nastiest weather. he is also a theif will steel anything you put down is this normal only happy when in a hedge or dich

Sounds like a proper dog to me ive seen jukels asleep in the snow totally covered in it with a warm dry kennel at the sde of em same as the thieving i wouldnt want it any other way all good signs id have said breay