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what kind of dog toys can stay in an outside dog kennel/run?

Jul 16, 2008 by hatchetryda | Posted in Dogs

my fiance just put up a huge dog run in the back of the house for our 2 pit bull dogs, one being a year and a half the other 4 1/2 months. i do not plan on leaving them in there for long periods of time, or when im not home, but i would appreciate any ideas for toys they can play with which they are in there and that can stay out in the run. thanks!

Well i have a yard that's fenced that during the day when I'm home i let my dogs stay in, and they have toys like rubber balls and rubber toys that wont get too gross. I also have chew toys for them too that don't attract bugs.

Installing kennel run

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by MICHAEL RUBINKAM

&Mdash; Megan Anderson's nerves are shot. But she presses ahead — the dogs need her.

She pulls into the driveway of Scarlet-Maple Farm Kennel. She tells the adolescent boy who greets her that she's looking for puppies to give to her nephews for Christmas.

It's a lie. A necessary one, Anderson thinks, but a lie nonetheless. That's why she's jittery. Will the boy swallow her story? How about the Amish man with the long gray beard, straw hat and plain dress — the kennel's owner? Will he discover her ruse and chase her away?

She hopes not. If all goes well, Anderson will leave with at least one dog, maybe more — and perhaps with evidence that could help put this kennel out of business for good.

Over the past four years, Anderson — who works for Main Line Animal Rescue, a shelter outside of Philadelphia — has managed to coax some of Pennsylvania's largest commercial breeding kennels to part with their unwanted canines, usually females past their reproductive prime or young males they couldn't sell.

Main Line's founder, Bill Smith, would like to shut down Scarlet-Maple Farm Kennel and others like it. Smith and other animal welfare activists pushed for a new state law — regarded as the toughest in the nation — designed to end the inhumane treatment of breeding dogs in the large commercial kennels popularly known as puppy mills. Kennel owners say the law is unnecessary and too expensive to comply with, and that it is eliminating many good breeders along with the few bad apples.

After listening to Anderson's tale, the boy disappears into the kennel, leaving her to wait outside in the November chill.

She knows the drill. Large operations like Scarlet-Maple rarely allow prospective buyers inside. They don't want the public seeing how their breeding dogs live.

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It's no wonder.

State regulators say the smell of a high-volume puppy mill is unforgettable, an overwhelming stench of urine and feces. Ammonia fumes burn the nose and eyes. The simultaneous barking of hundreds of dogs creates a wall of sound that makes it hard to think, let alone converse.

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