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I have a bunch of old carpet that I am planning to throw away. Similar to Berber. But, I thought it might work in the dog kennel to keep it warmer and more comfortable for the dog. Right now it is a dirt floor and the dog has access to an outside run to do his business out there. He has never crapped or peed in the kennel so I don't believe I would have to worry about those smells and clean up.

Would this be a good thing to do or should I just throw it out? What are your thoughts?

Use it until it gets stinky and then throw it out. Anything would be better than a dirt floor.

That's what I was thinking, but many dogs have cement and no dog run.

As long as it doesn’t get wet.

I like stall mats.

Odd of it getting wet are pretty small. Never thought of stall mats. Wonder how they would be in the cold. I thought of the carpet for comfort and warmth.

My dogs would shred it in a day.

Here's how mine sleep, at the foot of my bed.
"But but but you'll spoil the dog!"
Damn right I will. Mine had ground elk last night for dinner too.

If my wife wouldn't loudly complain mine would be at our bed too. Heck, she said I was making him soft when the temp got pretty cold and i let him stay in the garage.

What kind of Dog...some are outdoor Dogs and some shouldn’t be in a Montana winter...

Agree...and it will.get wet or damp sometimes eventually....carpet also becomes hard quickly, retains moisture and freezes solid when cold and wet and has practically zero insulation quality..

Do the hardcore backpackers here choose carpet as their ground layer when out in the winter? Wife needs to sleep outside in the winter more often...hell, be nice and let her have the garage....it will keep her from going soft....perhaps just sleeping on the carpet floor every night may do the trick..

I can't imagine being so heartless as to keep a dog outside on the dirt in a Montana winter. WTF is wrong with some people? "But the wife won't let me.."
JHC..

The OP should spend a night lying down on bare dirt ground during a Montana winter night, or the garage floor,...with [bleep] carpet for conduction insulation...Perhaps then the answer would be obvious...Maybe not....

Wonder why the Iditarod teams use straw and cedar and not carpet.....

Then again....this guy uses carpet.....

Yeah, red heat lamps and straw. What in the world could go wrong with that>

Agree on the heat lamps, depending on how they are installed..there are better electrical choices which are safer..

I’ve used an Akoma Hound Heater with cedar and straw in the beagle’s coop for the last three winters (Dec. to mid-March). Coop itself has 2” styrofoam insulation sandwiched between plywood and two separate, baffled ‘rooms’ inside. Electric bill about $10.00 a month more. Re. outdoor dogs, spoke to the owner of the company when I bought the unit and he related that some customers in MN report that their dogs will not sleep in a heated coop and actually prefer to sleep outside in the MN cold.

My dogs sleep indoors in their crates most of the year.

There is straw in his kennel and I have slept on the ground during the winter more than once.