cucha

Many dogs still enjoy a life outdoors, that allows them to enjoy an existence in semifreedom in a small farm, or the garden of a familiar house. These animals, generally of good size, must have a dry, clean place and relatively sheltered where to rest and to take refuge of the climatologic inclemencies.

In a percentage elevated enough, the proprietors of these dogs even prefer that they enter the house, in the vestibule, the kitchen or in any other aposento, some shed, garage, or garage. In this last case, will have to qualify rickety old bed elevated in corner protected, since, against which it could seem, he is less comfortable a dog to lodge or to spend the night in a great shed that in a small enclosure that tempers with the own heat of the animal, ?cucha? like diurnal refuge or permanent home.

?Cucha? must fulfill a series of minimum requirements of location and structure. The inner useful volume of the construction must be the minimum to during allow to the minimum movements of the animal and the voluntary confinement in its interior, some hours, being agreed with the dimensions of the guest. The ground will be high of the level of the land a minimum of 10 cm and constructed on a small cement base that assures a perfect isolation possible humidities.
Of being possible, the floor of the construction will present/display a slight declivity, canalized, with the lowest part located in the only access door. This form, one makes sure a comfortable cleaning and inner hygiene that allows to evacuate the washing water, without retaining the dirts nor the humidity in the perrera. The lateral walls or walls, of the square will be of brick or double wood with an intermediate insulating layer and enduídas inner of form so, that they are completely smooth, without turns, and painted with synthetic painting of white color.

The ceiling, to two waters if this canine house is isolated, or with a single slope if it is constructed leaned to a building, must be detachable, on guides of stainless steel or aluminum profiles hard anodizing, to slide the ceiling whenever a hygienic cleaning of the square is made. Nevertheless, this convertibility does not suppose a deficient isolation of the ceiling, that allows to the circulation of airflows or the possible permeability to the water of rain or of liquification of the snow.

The direction of the door will pay attention preferredly to the south, always protected of winds or more violent colds. A stock market fabric can be placed burlap or another sort, as a curtain that assures during the winter the conservation an optimal temperature for the animalito.
At the moment they are used ?cuchas? seasonal, prefabricated, constructed in light materials or summery that they do not require, logically, such requisite of watertightness and isolation that the traditional ones, allowing the canine lodging in a natural atmosphere during the most benign stages.

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