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Kennel Design: The Essential Guide to Creating Your Perfect Kennels
by David Key

Essential reading for anyone considering starting, building or updating kennels.

Step-by-step kennel building guidance & advice
from expert David Key on plans, construction, materials, equipment and all aspects of your design.

This complete reference guides you through all the options you need to think about before building or updating your kennels. For ISBN, number of pages, weight, covers etc please click here.

Dog welfare and behaviour expert Gwen Bailey helps you better understand and incorporate dog welfare knowledge into your design to improve it beyond measure.

Fascinating case studies from successful boarding kennels, and world-renowned charities such as Dogs Trust, San Francisco SPCA, Dublin SPCA, The Blue Cross and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.

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FROM: David Key
DATE: Sunday 25/7/2010

Dear Dog Lover,

Are you considering a career as a caring and professional rescue centre, boarding kennels or dog hotel owner?
Are you having problems finding where to get straight, unbiased answers to your questions about where to start, or what are the best kennel designs?

Have you been to your local kennels and come out thinking
"I can do MUCH better than that"?!

Do you want to find out what it's like to completely change your lifestyle and income doing something you LOVE - spending your day working with dogs?

Then you've come to the right place!

Over the last 20 years I've been designing animal facilities professionally, working for one of the most well known animal rescues (as well as helping many others).

I've also had the privilege of assisting thousands of animal lovers worldwide to become facility owners themselves.

I use my knowledge and experience to help people create MUCH better facilities for our dog friends... to reduce cat stress, have a much happier time in the kennels, or get adopted sooner. (Click here if you'd like to read more about my experience...)

Working for a big rescue for such a long time, you can just imagine the breadth of kennel facilities, suppliers, products, materials and level of care I've seen - from cruel to amazing.

So, in 2000 I decided to DO something to help more people build BETTER facilities, and Kay and I started writing our books and websites

My latest book, Kennel Design: The Essential Guide to Creating Your Perfect Kennels is a BIG BOOK (over 10" square and 1.25" deep) and totally unique - described as:

Whatever type of dog facility you’re looking to build, I am certain this book will help you create a first class kennels facility for your customers, both two and four legged.

At Dogs Trust we are changing the way kennels look and feel forever. This is why I am so delighted to introduce you to a book that will inspire and encourage you, and show you the many benefits that good kennel design has for
you and the dogs in your care.

by Clarissa Baldwin OBE, CEO of Dogs Trust, the UK’s leading dog welfare charity - who wrote the Foreword to the book, as well as providing some of its fascinating kennels case studies.

Read excerpt: Foreword PDF 419kb

Founded in 1891, Dogs Trust, formerly known as the NCDL, has always campaigned on dog-welfare related issues to ensure a safe and happy future for our four-legged friends.  This wonderful charity rescues and find new homes for aroundWe currently have 17 Rehoming Centres and over 500 staff.  Last year they cared for 15,162 dogs, neutered 52,615 dogs, and microchipped 19,964 dogs. [Click here] if you would like to read more about their work.

But we didn't stop there with our rescue case studies for the Kennel Design book!
We also included the world-renowned Dogs Trust, San Francisco SPCA, Dublin SPCA, The Blue Cross and Battersea Dogs and Cats Home as well as top boarding kennels and dog hotels - all our case studies are from the UK, America and Ireland.

Kay and I searched worldwide to find some of the best and most successful boarding and rescue kennels to include as case studies, with BIG colour photos, descriptions and insider information on what makes their kennels so unique, successful, and financially viable.

We provide facts, statistics, advice & design guidance with real-life examples, layouts, and 100's of BIG colour photos - to give you masses of ideas, inspiration and motivation to start your own kennels...

... and the encouragement & facts to become one of the BEST and most profitable by providing a service that dog owners are longing for.

And the truth is... that running your own kennels can be an INCREDIBLY rewarding --- and profitable way to earn a living... if you know what you're doing, are caring and knowledgeable about dogs, and are prepared to invest in dog-friendly kennels that your customers adore!

It is EXTREMELY important that your heart is 100% in it. Unfortunately, there are far too many poor quality kennels out there that only provide a very basic service because of outdated knowledge (or lack of it) and total disinterest in improving or investing in their facilities, basically running them into the ground.

I realised that putting my experience and knowledge into book form, and creating accompanying websites was the way to reach many, many more people.

Get it RIGHT  ~&~  do it BETTER !!!

But whether you have already ordered your units, begun building, or your kennels is finished --- there is SO much wonderful information available today that you can now read in Kennel Design: The Essential Guide to Creating Your Perfect Kennels.

I wrote the book because I wanted to catch people BEFORE they made expensive mistakes, or help them understand the options to put things right, show them how clever design can improve life for dogs in kennels, whether it is for a week or six months --- and even how to improve dog welfare in the worst of conditions or no budget.

But here is where I want to help YOU... once you find out what customers are really looking for today - and what makes a good kennels for dog welfare and good customer impressions - you will start to understand how much MORE SUCCESSFUL (financially, personally and professionally) you will be.

Kay and I want to help you every step of the way, whether you are thinking about starting kennels (whether boarding, rescue, quarantine, breeder or pet), need information and advice to help you decide, whether you are already 'going for it', or have an existing kennels.

We want to see kennels improving, not only for the dogs' welfare but also to encourage caring new owners to build better housing and become more successful by doing it!

Start learning today what it takes to start, run, and grow a successful kennels business and whether it is right for you!

Don't waste any more time hunting on the web for the detailed information you want to start your kennels - it doesn't exist!

We spent two and a half years in total putting together this book, pouring over 40 years of expertise into it - and I assure you, as can Dogs Trust, that it IS a book that will inspire and encourage you, and show you the many benefits that good kennel design has for you and the dogs in your care, and it WILL help you create a first class kennels facility - in fact, there are no other books concentrating on the most fundamental part of your kennels - the building itself!

It was written to help encourage you to make YOUR dream kennels come true, and to motivate more of you to create GREAT kennels!

I hope you will join us in wanting to create MUCH better kennels for our dog friends. The rewards benefit everyone - human and canine!