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The House
Here you go, I
came home early so there would still be some light, but
my battery was low so these are not works of art.
Hate to admit but I didn't clean up for you either :-)
I hate my house but Doug has been working on reno's for
the last year. He is putting in a grooming room
for me, right now it is in the living room with
everything else, and we took out all the walls and
re-floored so we would have a great room. The dogs
let us live with them. I'll try to explain how the
pens work (indoor and outdoor) for when girls are in
heat - or we are leaving for long periods of time.
The house - 1/3
acre
front
Back Yard - Dogs have full run, when we have girls in
heat we have a sectioned off outdoor yard for them
Outdoor pen- they can get to this anytime - even when
we are out - they have a dog door from the deck that
goes to the pen. They have full run of yard from
another gate that opens into the yard, but if we are not
home we don't let them hang out in the yard. This
pen has fishline over the top - in case of owls, eagles,
hawks. The puppies and teenagers are never allowed
to access the outside unless we are home - they are too
small.
This is an inside pen where my two girls in prime
heat are right now. We have an intregate system
where gates open and close so we can rotate who has run
of the house, run of the yard etc. when girls in season.
The girls in heat can at this moment get out into the
yard from the dog door. The boys right now are
just in the living room. Then we rotate. If
we are out and have to keep them seperate there is an
identical set-up on the other side of the dining room
for the boys. and they have outdoor pens which would be
closed if we are not home
This is an outdoor pen from the girls dog area - it
is closed right now, because Doug was out and I just got
home and the boys are free to come and go on the deck.
In a little while I'll close the gate for the boys and
let the girls have a run and a play.
Here is the boys pen. I've closed them in from
the deck and they have their outside pen and opened the
girls. side. It's a pain when girls are in season but
this them safe and still gives them freedom. I
don't want them in crates for 3 weeks
A bit overexposed because of the window but this will
be Taylor's whelping room. It also seems to be our
main TV room, and we have a small office in here too -
we like to whelp the puppies where there is lots of
traffic, but the moms need privacy from the other dogs.
This little den is perfect. If I have two at the
same time, I use my bedroom. The dogs sleep there
normally so they grumble as they get moved to the family
room for sleeping if I'm whelping in the bedroom
A gate separates our front steps. Saftey
Havanese are not street smart and they are fst.
The large 6 x 6 crate beside Taylor (she's been shaved
down) is where I put wet dogs while I'm grooming - see
why I need a grooming room :-)
They have another 6 x 6 closed x-pen that they can in
and out - this is where I put the puppies if we have to
go out
Doug just came home so lets of activity at the gate
:-)
My cutie pie husband
Two of the kids
Cheena my Alpha girl guarding her toy on the couch.
This is Max my Bichon
My bedroom - oops nobody made the bed this morning.
They all sleep in their crates in our room at night.
We have 2 in bed with us and they get to change places
every month. This month it has been Taylor and
Poppy because they are pregnant and need to get up and
go potty through the night with their big bellies
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