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Custom Colorado Metal Buildings for Dog Businesses

Dog kennels, dog training, veterinarians, and dog daycare businesses thrive in Colorado metal buildings. We just need to Right size a custom metal building with a Lester metal liner for your business plan. Do you have extra outside land, or do you plan 2 pursue indoor activities?

Planning Colorado Metal Buildings

The design of our Colorado metal buildings will provide an exceptional first impression for your customers. To get started, the first order of business will be to establish a business plan and conceptualize the spaces necessary to open your doors. How many dogs do you want to accommodate at once? How will you execute cleaning protocols? What kind of fencing will work for your purposes? Do you need fencing indoors and outdoors?

Wherever the dogs are cared for, trained, and placed to play, we’ll want to ensure the building design deals with basics such as safety, comfort, and accessibility.

1. Safety

The most important aspect of the design process will be safety dash safety for the animals, yes, but safety for you and your employees, other customers, and pets. Read up on the designs used by other dog businesses, dog training businesses and kennels.

Think of what to install. Higher fences will prevent jumping dogs from disturbing the peace. Non-slip flooring means fewer falls and is easier to hose down. Stalls need to be smooth. Create escape routes for suddenly aggressive animals.

2. Comfort

Striving to provide comfortable spaces for the animals and people who come to your animal facility, think of the environment. You will want good ventilation, temperature control, lighting, and walls and separators.

For example, you may want walls and separate rooms that enhance concentration for dog training sessions. As the dogs become proficient in specific skills, then they graduate to a more distracting environment.

3. Accessibility

Installed or flexible equipment new line Your training equipment We’ll next certainly need to be changed out depending on the size of the level of training you are offering or care you are or care. If you want heavy equipment installed indoors, thoughtfully plan how it will be accessed, unlike movable equipment. For example, treat dispensers and wall storage racks, closets, shelving.

What type of doors do you envision? Would you like a large opening to bring in the fresh air and expand access and your exercise space? Where do you need walking doors for employees and clients? The dog care facility will need to be accessible to all clients, including those in wheelchairs.
If you plan to offer long term residences for pets who have traveling owners? If these dogs can be housed in a separate area, will it be accessible from the interior?

Dog Care and Kennels

Before opening your business, create forms and protocols to ensure success. Just like schools watching small children, caring for pets is a responsibility. And owners usually want to know what happened during their time away. Multiple pets will require that you log activities and intake.

So, you’ll need a way to screen the health of the animals coming to you open paren vaccinations, flea treatments etcetera close paren. You’ll establish routines for feeding pets, accommodating naps, and issuing medications. you’ll want to be sure to set up a daily cleaning schedule, including sanitizing.

You’ll also need contingency plans. How will emergencies be managed? Come up with protocols for handling difficult animal behaviors, too. General guidelines will help keep you, the dogs, and their owners happy. We hope this information encourages you to move forward with plans to open a dog business.

Contractors for Colorado Metal Buildings

For information about pole building construction in Colorado, contact Sapphire Construction, Inc. at (303) 619-7213.