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kennel

[ken-l] / ˈkɛn l /


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Animal Care and Control officials cited “The Exorcist” star Linda Blair after several complaints led county authorities to investigate her Acton dog kennel operation where they discovered 251 canines at the unlicensed facility.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Blair’s kennel facility’s permits expired in 2023, and she allegedly didn’t respond to attempts by the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control to contact her, People reported.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

"My wife and son have evacuated, but I'm staying because I want to be able to help my brother-in-law, who runs a kennel with 60 dogs, if they need to be evacuated," he said.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

Rob Holder, general manager at Clumber Park, said while the origins of the Clumber spaniel were not clear, they may have come from a kennel of prized spaniels gifted to the 2nd Duke.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2026

Or perhaps you want to become a veterinarian, work in a kennel, or work with horses.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

Evidence from his son's cell phone indicated, however, that Murdaugh was the only person with his wife and son at the estate's dog kennels several minutes before they were killed.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

Sri Lanka's police kennels department was mobilised to ensure that local street dogs did not attack Aloka, who was led on a leash held by an army commando.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

"There is never a time when our kennels aren't full. And in the last few years, it's XL bullies filling them."

From BBC Mar. 30, 2026

The increase comes at a price - housing them in kennels rose from £4m in 2018 to £25m in the first year of the ban, O'Hara says.

From BBC Mar. 30, 2026

Many of them lived in kennels built on deck by dour old McNeish, the carpenter.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Experts might call that a good thing, since most rescues work with fosters, and it's healthier for adoptable felines to be cared for in private home settings than kenneled for long periods.

From Salon Dec. 6, 2024

Babs and Bugs were two stray Belgian Malinois picked up Jan. 21 and kenneled together at the Palmdale shelter.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2023

The prison authorities let them keep the dog kenneled in their cell as part of a program in which they train the animal for later use as a service dogs for disabled people.

From The Guardian Jul. 31, 2018

“He’s not getting the treatment he needs. He’s being kenneled like an animal.”

From Seattle Times Oct. 3, 2014

He saw into her hold,—a horrible place of stench and filth and darkness,—a place where hounds would not have kenneled.

From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Mary Johnston

After 40 years in captivity they kept their spirits up by caring for a dog kennelled in their cell which they trained to work with vulnerable individuals.

From The Guardian May 25, 2019

Old Kraken spied with kennelled snarl, His Lady deemed disgraced.

From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

The part really inhabited by him was the mezzanino,—a low, intermediate story, where he and his family were kennelled out of the way.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various

I didn't know enough to understand the wrong of one lazy idler having this splendid place while the people he lived on kennelled in hovels.

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by John Maurice Miller

Here he kennelled it and waited his chance.

From The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

He envisions having informational screenings playing in the waiting room, building on awareness programs the community is already doing on best practices like leashing and kenneling to keep pets from harm.

From Seattle Times Nov. 27, 2021

His book discusses types, methods of training, kenneling, diseases and all the other practical points relating to the use and care of the hound.

From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth

It was a snug, well-protected kenneling place, surrounded by the swamp.

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

The author takes up the origin and history of the breed, its development, breeding, kenneling, and training.

From Taxidermy by Leon Luther Pray

His book discusses types, methods of training, kenneling, diseases and all the other practical points relating to the use and care of the hound, etc.

From Taxidermy by Leon Luther Pray

The council said they had been told by their kennelling contractor that the dogs were "a German Shepherd type".

From BBC Jan. 11, 2026

Forces in England and Wales say the costs of kennelling thousands of seized dogs, often for months at a time, have risen sixfold to £25m a year and many facilities were at capacity.

From BBC Dec. 19, 2024

They had thought that fifteen people might attend, to see their demonstration of a lion-proof enclosure made with kennelling materials available at Home Depot.

From The New Yorker Feb. 5, 2017

Ms Berger has called on the government to take "urgent action" and grant the police powers of preventative action which could avoid the need, and cost, of kennelling.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2012

The kennelling for the poor animals was got up under the supervision of Ap and Seth himself.

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables




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