Gator Kennels

Gator Kennels publishes its component prices: $200 per aluminum post, $325 for a 4 x 6 ft panel, $625 for a 4 x 6 ft gate and $725 for a 4 x 6 ft door with glass, so you can cost a run before asking for a quote.

What a boarding or daycare business gets

You buy only the parts your layout needs. Each kennel is built from four components (corner posts, side panels, back panels and a gate), adjacent kennels share their dividing panel, back-to-back rows share back panels, and wall brackets let a dog-proof wall serve as the back. Gator says that saves both money and floor space across a full row. Every project is custom: you choose panel sizes, colors, privacy panels, logo engraving and one of four gate styles (half-slotted, full-slotted, half-glass or full-glass), and gates come with a clipboard clip, kennel numbering and the firm’s patented hinge and four-point latch.

Materials

Posts are hard-anodized aircraft-grade aluminum that will not rust, and the colored panels are HDPE plastic, which the firm describes as FDA approved for food use and naturally anti-microbial. It lists the materials as nonflammable, urine resistant and free of lead and silicone, made with 35% post-industrial recycled content and sourced and assembled in the USA.

Sizes, delivery and lead times

Common sizes run from 3 x 4 ft to 6 x 6 ft, with face-to-face, back-to-back and wall-attached layouts, and pre-assembled cage banks and guillotine transfer doors are also sold. Kennels ship by FedEx Freight on a 48 to 53 ft trailer with a liftgate included, anywhere in the United States or Canada. After moving into a 26,000 sq ft plant with four extra CNC routers, the company says its lead times are now shorter, custom sizes included.

Company background

Gator has built kennels in Loveland, Colorado since 2010, after making machine parts for companies including Kodak, HP and Ball Aerospace. Its team includes engineers and a microbiologist. It says its kennels are used everywhere from single-person boarding facilities to multi-location franchises, and its completed projects include animal hospitals and a Dogtopia daycare.

Compare with

Gator sits in our kennels, catteries and animal housing section alongside the specialist kennel manufacturers and kennel panels and runs lists, and its boarding range fits dog day care equipment. Medal Paw Kennel Systems in Alberta makes powder-coated, galvanized and stainless steel kennels instead of aluminum and HDPE, Designer Kennels has made HDPE kennels in Yorkshire since 1998, and Kennel Suite sells flatpack commercial kennels for self-build projects. More makers are listed under United States suppliers.

Source: gatorkennels.com

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