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After living and working in Worcestershire for just 3 years, Rich was made redundant again. So after a rather stressful few months we not only secured a new Gamekeepers job in North Wales, but also had the mammoth job of moving again with all the menagerie, which had grown since we had been there and included a litter of 8 Golden puppies at 3 weeks old and a singleton at 11 days younger. The good side of this was that the bungalow that we moved to is slightly bigger, so there is more room for a few more dogs to be in the house at any one time. Also the Shooting ground is better too and the Syndicate are a great bunch of guys!
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Garden Lodge
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The layout of the garden was not as easy to fit everything into, but we managed. We refurbished the very tatty old row of 5 kennels and put up 4 new ones and on the opposite side of the garden we erected a lovely set of 3 catteries and a big puppy kennel, with divider. We then refurbished an extremely old kennel and turned it into one large cattery, Once this was finished we moved the cats and then we moved the Spaniels over into what had been the catteries. But sadly all this was flattened by a large old oak tree which fell on the new block at the beginning of 2010. Thankfully none of the dogs that were in the kennels at the time were physically damaged although they were very traumatized. So we are now going to have to rebuild yet again !
So the work continues ..................................................... so watch out for updates.
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All we had for Kenneling when we moved in. The pond eventually was dug below this Kennel block
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The New Top Tier of Kennels + the Old Bottom Tier refurbished
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The Kennels on the Right and the bottom of the Catteries on the left with the pergola running down the middle, which looked lovely with all the hanging baskets on during the summer
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The Catteries + the big Puppy Kennel which is nearest to the house and also has a CCTV camera set up in it
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The Koi pond in the snow
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The pond and the Sexy Girls kennel in the summer
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Before the Cattle Grid was put in
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Rich testing the Cattle Grid on the Quad
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Cattle Grid and Gate all done now, it makes a great difference !
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