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We keep ours in a large kennel(concrete and chain link sides and roof with a huge log cabin dog house) when not home and in a huge fenced yard when we are home. It really promotes a good relations among everyone. We never have a fight and when we open up the boxes to hunt they know the order of things! Now we do keep them in the house at night in the uililty room. Two are lose and the youngest in a crate. All of our hounds are crate trained, just something we do. They also get an hour run a day and we try to coon in the off cat season as much as we can!

Mel

keep mine on chains

i use to kep mine in a large kennel were they could all run around and play then i moved and now i keep them on chains i dont have a problem with them barking or anything i keep them close enough were they can touch noses so they play alittle bit but i run them pretty hard so usally they dont even come out of there barrles untill its time to go huntin. i have one dog that stays in the barrel she comes out when i feed and when i go huntin other then that she stays in the barrel she is a odd dog. i like chains better cuz if i want to take one dog it is easer for me to go up there and just unsnap them instead of trying to keep the other back why i try to get one out of the kennel. and i can keep a better eye on each dog i can see how they are eating if they have the runs and stuff like that. at mine house i live with 3 other guys 2 of them have hounds to so there are 10 hounds ans 2 other dogs on our property all of mine stay outside but my other buddy lets 4 of his inside so usally there are 6 dogs in side and 5 outside. i told him we need to even things out and get another dog so then we can have 6 inside and 6 outside.

My setup is very similar to FullCryHounds setup. It is on a hill and little over an acre. I had a little trouble with some of them getting out so I got one of those underground fence things so if they get too close they get a little zap. They stay in pretty good shape running up and down.