New Jersey Beagles

The New Jersey Beagles kennel sits on an acre of land surrounded by 6 more acres of wooded property and our home.  What most people don't know is, before our kennel was built, the property it now sits on was carved out of a totally wooded area.  What you're looking at now was excavated and built in ONE week, with most of it done in just one weekend.   

Ruby and Shelby, along with the rest of our beagle family live in the heated and air conditioned building on the right.  Their houses are inside the building and they can come in and out as they please.  The big kennel yard (60"x120") is used daily for exercising the dogs.  On nice days they will spend up to 7 hours in the yard.  There they have the freedom to run, play, or just relax in the sun.

The building on the left is our puppy nursery, complete with heat, air conditioning, refrigerator, microwave oven, and beagle puppy curtains hanging on the windows.  This is where Ruby and Shelby will live with their puppies until the pups have been weaned and then ready to leave with their new families at 7 weeks old. 

Using the photos below, I've tried to take you on a little journey as we began the process of building, what I consider, one of the nicest, functional kennels around.

The kennel will be built on the wooded area straight back.  The cleared area is actually our front lawn.



Trees are being cleared and stumps removed

  
Time to rake and level what will soon be the kennel yard.



  
The kennel yard is level and the gravel has been laid down for our kennel pad.

Our kennel is delivered and placed on the kennel pad.



  
Little hands

Julie and Steven, my grandchildren, were more than happy to help 

All work and no play makes for very bored children.  Besides, what fun is it going to Nana's house if you can't get a ride on the ATV?
Look at those happy faces    

Ahhhhhhh, thanks Amy
BREAK TIME!

  
Diana, Mike, and kids                                                  Katie and Andy

Ken and Amy
 Three of my four children, and their spouses were on the job.

The kennel deck is complete and the kennel fencing is installed, along with a 6' high chain link fence surrounding the entire complex.

 
The dogs are looking pretty comfortable.  Much more room then the previous kennel they were in.

Almost done, except for the plywood and lattice used for closing off around the bottom of the kennel deck

A photo showing you what the kennel yard used to look like

 AND

What it looks like now!

A view of what the kennel looked like from a distance

AND

How it's starting to shape up.

The last step now.  The pad is being leveled off for the arrival of the puppy kennel and that's it.  We're all done!

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