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one side of the roof with a hinged lid of nearly its full size, so that 

 in cases of illness or a bitch having whelps in the kennel they can be 

 examined and help given when required with the greatest freedom and 

 ease. 



Any intelligent carpenter can make these from the drawings and 

 description, and the kennel may no doubt be improved upon in some of 

 its details, but in principle of construction, utility, and convenience it 

 will be conceded that it is a great improvement on the old fashioned 

 cumbersome dog box in common use. Mr. William Holland, builder, 

 New Thornton Heath, Surrey, makes these kennels in a great variety of 

 woods, and of several sizes, at very reasonable prices. 



The following plans and descriptions of other portable kennels to 

 accommodate half a dozen dogs were given by a correspondent in The 

 Country in 1877, and will, I think, prove of considerable use to others 

 who purpose erecting small kennels with a view of exhibiting and occa- 

 sionally breeding : 



" If dogs are to be thoroughly clean and upon this depends their health 

 it is absolutely necessary that you should be able to get inside of their 

 sleeping house, and if breeding is attempted this is more than ever 

 important. I give the plans which I have adopted, and although they 

 may contain many errors, as I am not an architect, still I think they 

 may be found a groundwork to start from. Of course, the idea is to 

 have them in every respect portable, and, keeping this in view, to make 

 them as comfortable as possible. 



"Fig. 1 gives the front view of the sleeping house, the side view of 

 which may be seen at Fig. 3. This is made to lift bodily in one piece, 

 and is built of red pine boards one inch thick, tongued and grooved to 

 make it weatherproof. At the front it is six feet high, falling to five at the 

 back, so that a man can work comfortably inside. The door must open 

 outwards, otherwise you will be troubled with straw and rubbish getting 

 behind it, and it ought to be so let in as to exclude draughts. Two 

 ventilators, which open and shut at pleasure, are introduced over the 

 sleeping benches, and this proper attention to ventilation I consider of 

 great importance. A pane of glass in the door gives what light is 

 required, and a swinging panel, which the dogs very soon learn to use, 

 ensures perfect protection during inclement weather. The panel must 

 not be made of very heavy wood, and the hinges upon which it is swung 



