Looking for an indoor dog pen

[IndianSpringsGuy]

I need to get something to confine small to large dogs in the kitchen on a cerramic tile floor. I do not know where to find soemthing reasonably priced. Any ideas or experience? My son bought one years ago, that can be shaped and folds up for carrying and travelling.

Family, maybe your husband knows how to build one?

[Wilson]

We have 2 wire crates (like these (http://www.petsmart.com/global/include/inc_product_detail_popup.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=8 45524441775479&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302035804&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=2534374302023689&bmUID=1184783605057)) but the largest model. They fold flat. When the puppy was brand new, we gated off the dining room for a few days until she was crate trained for nighttime. I probably paid way too much, but I got everything at PetSmart. The picture I linked to shows how they fold up, but they are awfully heavy to be carrying around!

[FamilyGal]

My husband built a huge outdoor one, but I don't know if he would know how to build an indoor one. With plans, he surely could. But, couldn't you just go to Petco or Petsmart? My friend just bought a huge crate for her dogs. And our other friends use huge crates for their dogs. I'm pretty sure they carried the ones that fold up for travel as well. I will check with my daughter's in-laws because they travel with their five large dogs up to Utah on a regular basis.

Edited to say, sorry for pretty much the same response as Wilson's. I didn't see her response until I hit submit.

[cgwoolf]

Another option I have considered recently - although they are not cheap...is to order (thru one of the mail catalogs I receive by the dozen) a fold-up type gate. They have some that stretch out to block off entrances/exits to large rooms...like 7-8 feet. The bigger you need the more they cost. Do you want me to see if I still have any of these catalogs left so you could look them up online and see if it is what you want? OR it may give you idea of how to build - shouldn't be too hard as long as you had decent latch on each end.

[TXrose]

This will work for small dogs, I have used one, but I'm not sure for large dogs. It's built for babies.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=1762412

[IndianSpringsGuy]

This will work for small dogs, I have used one, but I'm not sure for large dogs. It's built for babies.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=1762412

I am going to get this one, I believe. It would be worth that price. I suppose it folds up into a small unit if we want to put it away. I may not be the greatest for a large dog but I do not have one right now, so I can take my chances. I could train a large one to stay in it overnight. I think the crate is not a good solution for us. I have been putting them in the utility room when I leave. It is small and they cannot see outside. I could even put this on the deck outside if I wanted them outside but not in the mud. This will give them limited but quite a bit of space to move around. I need to go back and look at the size and measure.

Thanks for the varies ideas. I would never have searched for a baby pen.

[TXrose]

They used to have them at Walmart and with the extension kits. That's where I got the one I use.

[IndianSpringsGuy]

Another option I have considered recently - although they are not cheap...is to order (thru one of the mail catalogs I receive by the dozen) a fold-up type gate. They have some that stretch out to block off entrances/exits to large rooms...like 7-8 feet. The bigger you need the more they cost. Do you want me to see if I still have any of these catalogs left so you could look them up online and see if it is what you want? OR it may give you idea of how to build - shouldn't be too hard as long as you had decent latch on each end.

This might work but it would need to be fine enough where the little one could not get through. The problem I have is that the doors to the kitchen are easily opened by the dogs and I would like to confine them to the kitchen and not let them go to the den next to it where there is no door separating the two rooms. It is not a very big passage way. Maybe it would be easier to have two small gates than to manage the pen. Leave the doors open and put a gate there instead and put another gate between the kitchen and den.

[FamilyGal]

There are many types of "corrals" made for young children, but depending on the size of you dog, it may not work.

[Wilson]

Once we got the new puppy home and I realised how clueless I was lol:

We turned the dining room into the "dog room" and placed the 2 crates (that we're still using, they are just in different positions now and our dining room is back to normal). DH rigged up a baby gate between the two crates:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/184/460414715_d51744f37b.jpg

This hallway is from the dining room to the kitchen and we put another gate at the end:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/460414571_a37436b179.jpg

Thankfully, we had that setup for just a week. We're still working on the potty thing with Nora (how long should that take anyway?!). We've left the 2 crates in the dining room and that works out well for us. I like that the crates are near the front door so that when I need to answer the door, I just tell the dogs to go to their crates and close them.

[IndianSpringsGuy]

pretty cool!

[Lon Chaney]

IS Guy, if you want that white baby gate in the pictures it's now hanging in the garage and your welcome to it. I'm thinking $20.00? Let us know.