kennel
Let an agent explain kennels and their kinds, relay design, welfare standards and licensing from animal welfare and veterinary sources, describe boarding and breeding kennels, and distinguish kennels from catteries, animal shelters and dog crates.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a kennel is.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a kennel, and how do doghouses, boarding, breeding, rescue, working and quarantine kennels differ from catteries, shelters and crates? definition
- Is the question about a structure, a business or the old gutter sense? boundary
Design
Design.
Design
Design.
- How are kennels designed for space, warmth, ventilation, drainage and enrichment? definition
- Which entry fits the specific element? action
Run Running a kennel.
Welfare
Welfare standards.
Welfare
Welfare.
- What welfare standards and licensing apply to boarding and breeding kennels? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Health
Health and disease.
Health
Health.
- How are diseases such as kennel cough and parvovirus prevented in kennels? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Use Using kennels.
Boarding
Boarding.
Boarding
Boarding.
- How do owners choose and use boarding kennels, and what should they check? action
- Which entry fits dog boarding? action
Home
Home kennels.
Home
Home.
- How are garden doghouses built and sited for comfort and safety? action
- Which entry fits doghouse? action
Context History and language.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did kennels develop from hunting establishments to modern boarding and rescue? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of dog keeping? action
Language
Language.
Language
Language.
- How did kennel come to name an establishment and, historically, a gutter? provenance
- Which entry fits etymology? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.BLT
What it is Filled
A structure or shelter for housing dogs, from a small doghouse in a garden to boarding kennels that care for dogs while owners are away, breeding kennels, rescue and shelter kennels, working kennels for hunting and sled dogs, and quarantine kennels, built with runs, sleeping areas, ventilation and drainage and regulated for animal welfare; the word also names an establishment that breeds or boards dogs and, in old usage, a street gutter.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain kennels and their kinds, relay design, welfare standards and licensing from animal welfare and veterinary sources, describe boarding and breeding kennels, and distinguish kennels from catteries, animal shelters and dog crates.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Dog housing
- Runs and sleeping areas
- Welfare regulated
- Commercial and private forms
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Keep dogs in kennels that are overcrowded, unventilated or unclean.
- Mix sick and healthy dogs in ways that spread disease such as kennel cough.
- Hand a dog to anyone other than its keeper or an authorized person.
- Confuse a kennel with a rescue shelter or crate.
Only with a human decision
- Admitting a dog that shows signs of infectious disease.
- Any decision to rehome or euthanise a dog in the kennel's care.
May
- Monitor dogs' food, water, temperature and cleanliness in a kennel it is authorized to watch.
- Report signs of illness, injury or distress to the kennel staff.
Moral aspects Filled
- Dogs in kennels depend wholly on their carers; poor kennels cause real suffering.
- Unlicensed breeding kennels can exploit dogs for profit.
Who is affected
- Dogs
- Owners
- Kennel workers
Owners Filled
Steward
The kennel operator, under the local authority that licenses boarding and breeding.
Master systems
- Microchip and pet registration databases
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q811430 - registry parent class
- Q989946 - registry parent class
related
- shelter - in registry terms
- fixed construction - in registry terms
- dog - temporarily or permanently
- cattery - which houses cats
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.kennel
- Wikidata: Q2724542 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2724542)
Direct properties required Filled
- minimum sleeping area guidance: varies by dog size note - welfare codes
- boarding kennel licensing: required in many countries note
- temperature guidance: about 10-26 C - welfare codes
Recognition required Filled
- Structure for housing dogs
- Doghouses, boarding, breeding, rescue, working and quarantine kennels
- A cattery houses cats; an animal shelter rehomes many species; a crate is a portable enclosure
- A shelter or building with individual runs and sleeping areas for dogs.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain kinds
- relay design and welfare standards
- describe boarding and breeding
- distinguish related facilities
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Poor welfare in unlicensed kennels
- Disease spread such as kennel cough
- Confusing kennels with shelters or crates
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Animal welfare licensing for boarding and breeding kennels
- Model codes of practice for kennel design and management
- Quarantine regulations for imported dogs
Context of use required Filled
- Housing dogs.
- garden doghouses
- boarding kennels
- breeding kennels
- rescue and shelter kennels
- working kennels for hunting, sled and service dogs
- quarantine and veterinary kennels
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q2724542: kennel - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Kennel - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should boarding kennel and doghouse be separate primary entries?
- How should welfare sources be linked?
- How should the establishment sense be recorded?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q2724542/spec.json