Rancho Santiago kennels were located under the shade and protection of an 80-year-old apricot orchard. Sadly, after a 5-year long drought, the apricot trees surrounding the kennels at the ranch and all over Dickens county died even though we watered. We are replanting with cottonwood trees.

The kennels are built two feet off of the ground with the floor slanting towards the back for easy daily wash-outs to aid in sanitation.

Whelping House #1 was remodeled this fall.

Whelping kennel house #1 is now divided into two whelping rooms and a puppy run for each side of the house. Warm in the winter with heat lamps and cedar shavings on the rubber stall matt floor and the shade of a huge elm tree and fans inside the house for summer comfort for a bitch and her pups.

Whelping house #2 was added last summer.

The construction process with help from good friends.

Estaben… highly skilled construction & renovation artisan…. friend

Our Marine son Chris with his son home for holiday.