How to keep puppy warm in kennel

[Dazb1967]

I built a ply bed box and had a hinged base, underneath it I left an 8” deep box where I placed an electric tube heater with a thermostat so it would only kick in when it was low temp, it worked well and was cheap to buy.

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This is the greenhouse heater I referred to earlier in this post, I actually think the warmth from it made him uncomfortable, I would often come down on really cold mornings and he would be asleep on top of his kennel, It was only set to come in really cold temp and only set low.

 

[gixer1]

This is the greenhouse heater I referred to earlier in this post, I actually think the warmth from it made him uncomfortable, I would often come down on really cold mornings and he would be asleep on top of his kennel, It was only set to come in really cold temp and only set low.

I drilled holes at the top of the bed box to make sure the heat got into the kennel part itself…

But I would still find my labs sleeping out in on the concrete - I don’t think it was the heat, they just liked being outside.

 

[Tom270]

Many years ago my 2 German shepherd's lived outside in a small shed I put a divide in it at 90 degrees to the entrance which was open to let them in and out just after moving in the night temp was well below zero, I went out worried about them only to find it was really warm inside. You could always put a max / min thermometer inside to see what's happening.