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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

The Fourth of July is freedom day, but if you’re not paying attention, the celebrations might land your furry friends in a shelter kennel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

When I sent a picture of the economy-pod setup, more than a few friends said it looked like a dog kennel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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

“We have to reach the kennel door before it swings shut.”

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

A German Shepherd dog, understood to have been involved in the incident, had been seized by police officers and remained in police kennels, the spokesperson added.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

Jennifer Naitaki, a Michaelson Center for Public Policy senior advisor, said the group’s workers keep notes on how the dogs behave outside their kennels, which helps match shelter dogs with appropriate new homes.

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

Even when the winter’s bad and others starve and freeze, We’ve porridge from the kennels — But we also have the fleas.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

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

She had been monitoring Angel, a 2-year-old black German shepherd, who was kenneled in the back at the Palmdale shelter, in an area that required an escort.

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

A trifle to one side of the door, under a window, a dog was kenneled.

From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman

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

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

But I stood in the debt of charity and honour, and in consequence I felt for all the world like a kennelled dog that tugs barking on his chain.

From Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \"Big Fish,\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Charles Gilson

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

They were crouching here and away there in France and England, they were crouching like beasts that bide their time, mewed up in forts, kennelled in arsenals, hooded in tarpaulins as hawks are hooded....

From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

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

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

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

But right soon a message reached him, from Rehoboth, of southern Massachusetts north of Rhode Island, that Head Captain Annawan was "kenneling" in Squannaconk Swamp, and plundering the farms outside.

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

Fincham was ordered to pay £3,680 in total, including a £2,000 contribution to kennelling costs, a fine of £961 and £200 compensation to Mr Sudell.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025

Courts can order that police be repaid for costs caused by kennelling dogs seized in connection with a hare coursing-related offence.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2022

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

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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