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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

"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

Videos posted online showed one dog, Cash, trembling in his kennel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

Because we feed processed meat to the dogs there is always the smell of meat over the kennel.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

Dogs at the Chesterfield Square animal shelter have been kept inside their kennels for three weeks due to a giardia outbreak.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

The kennels take on seized or abandoned animals that police are unable to house themselves.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

He found a dog biscuit and a couple of bones in one of the empty kennels.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

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

Allow me to congratulate you, my dear sir, I have never seen so many good dogs kenneled in so small a space before.

From The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog by Edward Axtell

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

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

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

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

From far over the hill came the faint periodic yell of kennelled hounds; while from the nearest village resounded the voices of boys at play in the twilight.

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy

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

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

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

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

Contains chapters on the history and development of the breed, selection of dog, breeding, kenneling, and training.

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

In a statement, South Wales Police said seized dogs are "transported to secure kennelling sites" where specially trained officers will assess the dog.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025

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

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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