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 fora 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. 
