Heating Kennel Lurcher

[carlton chase 37]

What do you lot use to heat your kennels with in these colder months was looking at a heat may or heat lamp but want the cheapest to run obviously with quality what do you use ??!

[LurcherLad94 2,582]

i use one of the tube heaters i onyl have a small sleeping box com comeing off the run i covered the door with a piece of carpet and it keeps it quite warm inside there and the heaters are cheap and use hardly and electric

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

I'm not currently using anything. I've got a length of armoured cable in place which I sourced last week ready to connect to a tube heater but not ordered the heater yet.

 

I just aren't convinced they need it. I got in from work at 3am this morning. -3c on the car thermometer. Went up to the kennel and both dogs were warm to the touch and the straw where they had been lying was red hot. It's a decent dry and raised kennel with no draft at all, a good 18 inches of straw bedding and 2 dogs together. They are honestly like toast and I don't want to introduce unnecessary artificial heat when they have got good coats and seem to handle being outside well.

 

Would there coats become poorer like that of a dog kept indoors?

 

Would they feel the cold more in the day when the heat source is turned off at 8am and it's still really cold?

 

These are just a couple of the questions I haven't answered yet and hence why I'm holding off. Money isn't an issue and nor is the power source. As said I've got the armoured cable in place.

[jeppi26 1,855]

A well insulated kennel and a good diet is more than enough never ad to use a heater in any kennel. If the temperature drops cold I just warm the dogs food threw with gravy or a chicken stock cube

[lurchers 2,763]

A heat lamp if need be but i would rather not,if it was left to the wife the feckers would have there own bedroom and beds.as long as there is no drafts and its not damp mate it should be fine.

[nothernlite 18,077]

Heat lamp in one and a tude heater in the other been the oast week with it been minus

[Chicken_man 1,651]

Tubular heater. Ebay sells some.

Atb

[jeemes 4,467]

I'm not currently using anything. I've got a length of armoured cable in place which I sourced last week ready to connect to a tube heater but not ordered the heater yet.

 

I just aren't convinced they need it. I got in from work at 3am this morning. -3c on the car thermometer. Went up to the kennel and both dogs were warm to the touch and the straw where they had been lying was red hot. It's a decent dry and raised kennel with no draft at all, a good 18 inches of straw bedding and 2 dogs together. They are honestly like toast and I don't want to introduce unnecessary artificial heat when they have got good coats and seem to handle being outside well.

 

Would there coats become poorer like that of a dog kept indoors?

 

Would they feel the cold more in the day when the heat source is turned off at 8am and it's still really cold?

 

These are just a couple of the questions I haven't answered yet and hence why I'm holding off. Money isn't an issue and nor is the power source. As said I've got the armoured cable in place.

I think you are right to go on what your dogs are telling you. If they look warm and happy thats it,but remember it can go colder some years and a few years ago we had 13below. Two dogs make a great difference but if you lost one and temps plummit then youve got a cold dog. The worst for me is a cold wet dog back from work.Possibly hes lost some blood aswell.He needs a good warm meal and some heat on him in the form of a heat lamp for me because its the nearest thing to the sun warming you through. Ive got bullx dogs with very short coats,and I know when they are feeling the cold because like you I just observe them.

Dont quite understand why you would turn heat off at 8 though.Mines on all the time the dogs in kennel.When they go out they are active and when they go back theyve got the heat again.

I dont keep heat on saplings that are carrying a bit of fat (not too much) and bed together but dogs that are being worked and carrying little body fat and have short coat can benefit,but its not necessary.

They also seem to suffer less from rheumatism in old age.

[bird 9,868]

I'm not currently using anything. I've got a length of armoured cable in place which I sourced last week ready to connect to a tube heater but not ordered the heater yet.

 

I just aren't convinced they need it. I got in from work at 3am this morning. -3c on the car thermometer. Went up to the kennel and both dogs were warm to the touch and the straw where they had been lying was red hot. It's a decent dry and raised kennel with no draft at all, a good 18 inches of straw bedding and 2 dogs together. They are honestly like toast and I don't want to introduce unnecessary artificial heat when they have got good coats and seem to handle being outside well.

 

Would there coats become poorer like that of a dog kept indoors?

 

Would they feel the cold more in the day when the heat source is turned off at 8am and it's still really cold?

 

These are just a couple of the questions I haven't answered yet and hence why I'm holding off. Money isn't an issue and nor is the power source. As said I've got the armoured cable in place.

they deff feel better for a heat lamp, 1st they will stretch out , so avoid stiffness , 2nd the heat lamp don't toast them lol, it just holds a better temp, than going below what it was in the 1st place. there coats stay the same because these still amount of cold in the kennel anyway so the dogs will keep a good coat. I put my lamps on from 9. 30 pm - 11am next day, then there off till 9 30 pm. and I always put them on when ive took the dog lamping, as it as above stops stiffness next day, infact all my dogs over the years have had stiffness next morning from a night lamping. but since I had heat lamps (no more stiffness ) so for me there Brill I would always use them deff

[buster gonads 862]

Tube heater in sleeping box that runs through a frost stat, i bought the tube heater from Toolstation and Frost stat from Screwfix.

[king 11,972]

Dogs don't need it.good diet draught free kennel.job done.

[Jekyll 329]

Same as buster.. tube heater small double type with guard, wired to a frost stat but can override if needed, insulated kennel box and thick clear plastic door flap, only put heater on once so far as not needed when they pile in together

[king 11,972]

I've never heard of a dog that has died from the cold in a decent draught free kennel.

[paulsmithy83 567]

I'm not currently using anything. I've got a length of armoured cable in place which I sourced last week ready to connect to a tube heater but not ordered the heater yet.

 

I just aren't convinced they need it. I got in from work at 3am this morning. -3c on the car thermometer. Went up to the kennel and both dogs were warm to the touch and the straw where they had been lying was red hot. It's a decent dry and raised kennel with no draft at all, a good 18 inches of straw bedding and 2 dogs together. They are honestly like toast and I don't want to introduce unnecessary artificial heat when they have got good coats and seem to handle being outside well.

 

Would there coats become poorer like that of a dog kept indoors?

 

Would they feel the cold more in the day when the heat source is turned off at 8am and it's still really cold?

 

These are just a couple of the questions I haven't answered yet and hence why I'm holding off. Money isn't an issue and nor is the power source. As said I've got the armoured cable in place.

some good points there about being over used to heat. reminds me of my mates dog his is indoors , heating always blearing. he dont do to well in cold temps ferreting.cant think of the word is it climatisation ???

ive slept in my kennels enough in winter no heater and i been very warm to the point i always have to take me fleece off and just sleep in me vest.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

 

I'm not currently using anything. I've got a length of armoured cable in place which I sourced last week ready to connect to a tube heater but not ordered the heater yet.

 

I just aren't convinced they need it. I got in from work at 3am this morning. -3c on the car thermometer. Went up to the kennel and both dogs were warm to the touch and the straw where they had been lying was red hot. It's a decent dry and raised kennel with no draft at all, a good 18 inches of straw bedding and 2 dogs together. They are honestly like toast and I don't want to introduce unnecessary artificial heat when they have got good coats and seem to handle being outside well.

 

Would there coats become poorer like that of a dog kept indoors?

 

Would they feel the cold more in the day when the heat source is turned off at 8am and it's still really cold?

 

These are just a couple of the questions I haven't answered yet and hence why I'm holding off. Money isn't an issue and nor is the power source. As said I've got the armoured cable in place.

I think you are right to go on what your dogs are telling you. If they look warm and happy thats it,but remember it can go colder some years and a few years ago we had 13below. Two dogs make a great difference but if you lost one and temps plummit then youve got a cold dog. The worst for me is a cold wet dog back from work.Possibly hes lost some blood aswell.He needs a good warm meal and some heat on him in the form of a heat lamp for me because its the nearest thing to the sun warming you through. Ive got bullx dogs with very short coats,and I know when they are feeling the cold because like you I just observe them.

Dont quite understand why you would turn heat off at 8 though.Mines on all the time the dogs in kennel.When they go out they are active and when they go back theyve got the heat again.

I dont keep heat on saplings that are carrying a bit of fat (not too much) and bed together but dogs that are being worked and carrying little body fat and have short coat can benefit,but its not necessary.

They also seem to suffer less from rheumatism in old age.

My post was based on everyday kennelling, not for a dog that is wet, injured or suffering from blood loss. Sure this would require additional care.

 

I also assumed that most people use the heat lamps on a timer. I've never heard of anyone using a heat lamp 24/7 during the winter months. That's a first for me.

 

My dogs spend the night in the house after lamping, i can keep an eye on them, dry them, clean them up and they can spread out on a big quilt. But I don't have the heating blasting, I keep it cool.

 

Same for a retired dog suffering rheumatism, it would be indoors ??