KENNEL CONSTRUCTION 117 



than required to stand up in when preparing to 

 curl up. Thirty inches is plenty, and the lean-to 

 is preferable to a gable as being easier to keep 

 tight, warmer in winter, and more sightly about 

 the place. 



Such a kennel can be built out of a shoe packing 

 box, which one can get from the shoe store for 

 perhaps fifty cents, but it is a poor, flimsy thing, 

 and in time the boards will swell open, making 

 cracks which do more to make your dog rheumatic 

 than any other thing, unless it is that end door 

 centrally located which I have protested against 

 before. Why not order some tongue and groove 

 ygxS inches pine ceiling, and make a regular job 

 of it ? Five 12-foot boards of this ceiling will be 

 enough, and $2 will buy the lumber, — ^little enough 

 to spend on the housing of a valuable hunting dog ! 

 For comer posts a 12-foot piece of 2x2 hard pine 

 will be enough, and for nails a pound of 8-d. will 

 be about right. 



To build, you first make the two ends. These 

 require three boards, 2 feet long, and one board 

 two feet long drawn diagonally across to make the 

 two slants. Cut two posts 32 inches long, and two 

 40 inches long, for back and front posts, respec- 

 tively. This will give you eight-inch legs for the 

 kennel, the back being 24 inches high and the front 



