44 The Dog Book 



very few showing antipathy to kennel mates, and it is much better so to keep 

 them. The first photograph shows the front exterior arrangement. 

 Each of these rooms opens on a cement-floored, sloping yard, with a brick 

 inclosing wall, surmounted by a substantial wired erection. The centre 

 and wider door along this row admits to the wider yard facing the centre 

 section. There is a corresponding wide door at the office front, and here 

 dogs are boxed for transit to shows and put on the conveyance standing 

 at this wide central gate. The farther or western section is a replica of 

 the eastern, except that a kennel-man's room is provided for upstairs, with 

 easy access to the kennel floor. Facing the driveway along the kennel 

 fronts, as seen in the first photograph, is an irregular triangular inclosure 

 into which the dogs are turned for exercise; shown in the second photograph. 

 Of course this is by no means their sole exercise, for, as at all large kennels, 

 some of the help are perpetually taking out two or three dogs for a run. In 

 addition to this kennel there is another plainer one a little distance to the 

 rear, where the matrons and some of the puppies are kept. There is 

 nothing there that is uncommon : a row of kennels under one roof, each 

 with one or two dogs, and opening each on its own small yard. 



A neatly-arranged kennel is seen in the photograph of Mr. Samuel Unter- 

 myer's collie home at Yonkers, N. Y. Internally it is well finished and has 

 the usual sleeping-bench in each kennel, a passageway running the full 

 length of the building. Outside we have a much more substantial inclosure 

 fence than is customary, and it certainly gives a finished appearance. The 

 slope of the kennel-yards is a desirable feature, and the rising board walks 

 to the entrance-doors are good feet-cleaners. 



The kennels of Dr. Knox, of Danbury, for his bloodhounds are the most 

 novel we have ever met with. The guiding principle is that of the barn- 

 builder who arranges for the live-stock in the "cellar." The kennel is built 

 of stone and is banked on the wintry-blast side to the height of the rear wall. 

 The entrance is around the corner to the left of the photograph, and the 

 arrangement of the interior is shown in the second photograph; five 

 roomy kennels, with cement floor sloping to a gutter in the centre, and 

 leading to a drain at one end. The entire front of each kennel is a swing- 

 ing gate. The sleeping-box is in two parts— the bottom and six-inch sides 

 for the straw, and over this an upper box fits like a tall cover and in this 

 is cut the entrance. By this plan it is possible to have an open sleeping- 

 bench for summer use, or a covered one for winter. 



