Those are actually really, really nice professional-looking setups man. They look fantastic! The only thing I don't like are for 2 things: 1) the wood flooring as you mentioned and 2) the limited space the dogs have to live in. For those in the United States, 300 cm x 200 cm is only about 10ft x 6 ft, which is pretty small quarters @ only 60 square feet of living space for each dog to live its life in. Other than that, you couldn't ask for a nicer-looking kenneling system.

Still, overall (when looking at a cost + quality-of-life-for-the-dog aspect), the best way to keep dogs is on a good ol-fashioned chain spot. I typically have my chains at 12' which (if the surface area of a circle is 3.14 x r2) affords 452 sq. ft of space for each dog to live in:




I do agree that the dogs living in the dirt isn't all that sanitary either, and a person really has to keep up on his worming protocol, but the room they have to run around on makes it worthwhile. Not to mention the fact a dog has the chance to "be a dog" in that he can run around, dig, bark at squirrels, etc.

I can also say this with authority too: plastic barrel houses rule. The top photo was taken of Dirty Hammer in 2008, right after I finished making that nice wooden house, while the bottom photo was taken in 2007 of houses I made back in 2002. It is now 2012, and that wooden house has long since been destroyed, while the plastic barrel houses look exactly the same now, 10 years later. Not a bad investment for about $5/barrel, about 40-min of time, and another $5 in hardware

Jack