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kennel

[ken-l] / ˈkɛn l /


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"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

Volunteers and community members have voiced concerns to the Animal Services Commission about poor conditions causing kennel stress, or behavioral decline in animals inside the shelter, sometimes leading to euthanasia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Every kennel here is full when we visit and many of them are covered by screens, because some of the dogs are so volatile our presence could provoke them.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

It was unclear why the card on the outside of Valerio’s kennel, which notes behavior problems for staffers and volunteers, didn’t include his bite history, Wright’s attorneys said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

In the damp box of the old kennel, the sound of the sea washes away all other sounds; she tends to the snails as though to plants in a garden.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Aimiee Sadler, chief executive of Dogs Playing for Life, said that the program helps make dogs more suitable for adoption and that keeping dogs confined to their kennels is equal to “incarceration.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

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

The dogs were housed in kennels built on deck, where they snapped and lunged at anyone who passed too close.

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

Birds are particularly susceptible because they have a high respiration rate, and it causes them stress to keep them kenneled indoors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024

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

The gods kenneled like dogs, crouched down in the enclosures.

From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder

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

At last I discovered that it was the howling of the kennelled blood-hounds which I missed.

From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

With difficulty they broke the chain whereby he had been held like a kennelled hound, and bore him, still senseless, up the long passages, Bolle going ahead as guard and Jeffrey Stokes following after.

From The Lady of Blossholme by Henry Rider Haggard

In Anglesey he built a castle, and kennelled the hounds he loved so well in a church, to find them all mad the next morning.

From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

Even the dogs had been kennelled, and the pious monks were healthfully occupied in the religious offices of the vespers.

From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

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, etc.

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.

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

I have reliable word that he is kenneling in Squannaconk and doing much damage.

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026

"We have police struggling to enforce and respond to dog incidents, huge delays getting to court costing hundreds of thousands in kennelling and police costs," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

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

I would have seen thee before but had to attend to the kennelling of the hounds.

From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott




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