Need to put a weather door on my dog house

I’ve used carpet in the past. You can find scraps somewhere.

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I just finished building a huge doghouse for in the last week or two.

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That was your first mistake. You should build a dog house just big enough for the dog to be able to enter, turn around and lie down to get comfortable. Build it so the deck is off the ground so cold won't transfer through the bottom.

Then drop something like hay, pine straw or even an old blanket if you just need to have something manmade for them to sleep on, and be done with it.

Their body heat will keep them warm in a small area.

Corrugated cardboard is a surprisingly good insulator., if your dog doesn’t like to chew. I repurposed a dogloo type house for a pair of yard cats, and I completely covered the opening with several thicknesses of cardboard, sealing it tight against the house, then cut a small cat sized porthole at the bottom. Worked like a charm, and the duct tape and cardboard lasted through about 5 winters before it needed replacing.

You can buy pet safe heating pads that are pressure activated, with wire wrapped chew proof cords. Pad heats to something like 60 degrees when animal isn’t on it, then goes higher when the animal lays on it. Will help to heat a too big doghouse if you don’t want to use straw or hay.

if you close that in it will probably be too hot and he will sleep outside of it