• Floors and walls have been sealed - to ensure that the cement, bricks and mortar do not absorb urine and other spillages.  A costly exercise however this allows for easy cleaning and long-term cleanliness.
• Further retaining walls have been installed to allow for extra parking areas.
• Grass has been laid at the front of the kennels - no more sand!!
• Fencing to extra exercise yards and security to kennels.
• Feature brick pathway to the kennel entrance laid.
• Gravel laid for parking near the kennel entrance and also on the verge.
• Remaining area of our (very large) verge has been mulched.
• Kennel sleeping bays have been fully lined with ceilings - that was a BIG job!!!
• Kitchen fully fitted out with stainless steel benches.

See the Photo's Page for the latest pic's of the kennels.

There is still much to do, however we are now operational and we proudly introduce our very first resident,
Miss Millie (photo below) ...

Council Health and Security have given their "stamp of approval" pending a few minor items to be fixed. 

Floors and walls are planned to be sealed in the next week or so and once finished we will be "operational"!

There is still much landscaping and fencing yet to be done. 

New photo's to be posted on this page soon.
      

The internal gates have finally returned from the fabricators, resized to fit (hopefully!) and now with the lock panels ... still needing some small alterations, however these will be done on site.  Safety being the main cause for concern.

The application for the Kennel Licence was also submitted to the council last week which was followed by a visit from our friendly, local Ranger, Patrick Cornelius, who now awaits completion in order to make his final inspection. 

Stay tuned ... we're getting close now!
      

It's been over 6 months now since we started this venture!   

The mesh screens and gates were delivered last week.  Most looks pretty good but a small set back with the internal gates ... they were made with the mesh welded on the wrong side (sharp sides in towards the dogs) and the frames also incorrectly sized! ...

Unfortunately the difficulty in communication has hindered the progress of this part of the project. 

The smooth running and final completion of this project has been a challenge to say the least, but so far, we're still hanging in there (just!)  

In the meantime, the Plumber has completed the drainage and taps in and around the building. 

To the many enquiries we have had for future bookings, hang in there ... it can't be too much longer ... surely!!!

Plumbers returned to firstly, connect water to the building, finish the plumbing connections to the septic tank and install the kitchen sink and taps around the building. 

The bricks have been cleaned ... take a look!

The brickwork is finished!
... still awaiting cleaning, however some pic's below.
Once the bricks have been cleaned the weld mesh panels will be fitted at the front and inside of each bay.

Our Brickie is here ... brickwork has started, a little later than scheduled
but growing day by day!!!  Stay tuned for updates.

Brickies are scheduled to start work in the next couple of weeks! 

Above: the view from inside the kennels

Above: the view of the kennels from our front door.

Above: the view from inside

Earthworks commenced ... a little more sand is moved and the pad area leveled ready for marking out the slab.
    

The next step was the "great retainer wall" ... wow!  This was one huge job (well it seemed that way to us) and Wayne Thompson of Thompson's Retaining & Fencing did a fantastic job for us!

Whilst still awaiting quotes and final figures from builders we began work on preparing the area. 
150m² of sand had to be moved.  Thanks to Fred of Canning Vale Earthmoving Services, who delicately maneuvered his front end loader around this sloping block with little fuss and damage.  Also thanks to friend, Eric Herson, who lives just a few blocks down the road from us, willingly took the clean fill to level his backyard.

When we purchased this property, in 2002, it was one of the only blocks in the Canning Vale Kennel Zone without kennels.  It had been owned, loved and enjoyed by a couple with their one little dog, where they had brought up their children and grandchildren ... we never dreamt that one day we would decide develop it to what it is today and build kennels.  Thanks to Martin Blakey (Real Estate Agent) for finding us the perfect dream property!

After over 12 months of research and deliberation, we decided to proceed with building kennels.  Council gave us permission to build on the area that we wanted to use - a very sloping part of our block that would require serious retaining and earthworks - but also an area that was totally useless for anything else we wanted to do.