Product Description

The MIDWEST 30" Black E-Coat exercise is constructed of (8) panels 30" High and 24" wide. The panels are designed to move and can be configured for any size yard or play area designated for your pets. The Black E-Coat Exercise pen also come with four easy use Ground stakes to anchor your pen to the grass or lawn.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #678 in Pet Products
• Size: Large, 24wx30h
• Color: Black E-Coat
• Brand: Midwest
• Model: Black E-coat Exercise Pen 552-30
• Released on: 2006-12-06
• Dimensions: 24.00" h x .5" w x 30.00" l, 28.80 pounds

Features

• Exercise pens provide safe containment for a variety of pets indoors or outside
• Easy to carry and fold flat for convenient storage
• Set up in minutes without tools
• Features 8 24" wide panels

Customer Reviews

Perfect for my French bulldog..
We love this pen. It is large enough for the puppy and for an adult or child to sit in and play with the dog. When opened up it spans a very large entry to the great room in our home giving us the ability to confine her to an area of the house. It is strong and sturdy and although she is a puppy I can imagine her using it even as a 30lb adult dog. For larger dogs, I definitly would consider buying the taller 30" or more. This pen is extremely well priced and after shopping around at local pet stores this one was positively the best deal ever.

Excellent
We have a young, 15 lb. Doxie/Jackie mix who has a LOT of energy. We bought this pen primarily so we could use it as a barrier between rooms, and it works great for that. We use one of the end sections as a "door" for us (and him) that we set against the wall when we want to close off the room; we stretch three of the adjoining sections in short "V"s for the length of the room opening; and then we "fold" the remaining partitions together and set them against the opposite wall. It is completely free standing this way, which means it doesn't rub against the walls (unless our dog jumps against it, which he has been known to do--but it doesn't fall over when does this because of how it's propped against the wall, and that's important). We've also used it as a pen, and it worked great for that too. We wondered if our little guy would be able to knock it over when it was in its pen shape, but if he tried, it didn't come down. We left him in it while we ran errands for a couple of hours, and when we came back, it was exactly as we'd left it. He's pretty well potty trained at this point, but we also wondered if we left him in the pen (rather than his kennel) while we were gone if he'd break protocol and do his business in there since he has a lot more room in the pen than he does in his kennel. But he didn't make any messes at all; so I would recommend it for dogs who are at or near the end of their potty training but still need to be confined while their owners are gone for a short period of time. A final word (no, really, I swear): We really like the black coating. Some friends of ours have a gold pen they offered to loan us, but we don't like the way the gold one looks. The black is more "stylish" (which, let's face it, does matter to some of us), and if the pen winds up rubbing against a wall, the black rubs off a little bit (which is quickly and easily cleaned off) but doesn't harm the wall. (Our friends' gold pen rubbed against one of their walls and left scratches on it.)

Perfect Potty Pen for Puppies
I have a new baby corgi who - in potty training - thought that the back door was okay to use for both potty and play... which led to potty breaks every 5 minutes, and waiting in the cold for a half an hour at a time for her to go to the bathroom.

This exercise pen (while being very small) was exactly what I needed to 'rein her in'. I set it up in an "L" shape with the 2 other sides of the rectangle being the side of the house and the deck. Now, when she goes outside - we go straight into the pen and potty - then, when she has 'done her business' I open one of the hinged gate sides and let her out in the yard to play.

So, it helped with puppy training, and also makes cleaning up very easy! My only concern is that it is very small, so be aware of the space that you need for the dog that you have and be prepared to buy 2 or be creative with your use of space.