Petmate Sky Kennel for Air Travel, 40in Dog Crate for Pets 70 to 90lbs

Very well made,.lots of safe figures. Easy to put together. Highly recommend.

PERFECT create if you traveling internationally with your pet. i purchased the XXXL for my german shepherd who is 79lbs. she has enough room to stand, move around, lay, sit. it was very sturdy. if any other families are traveling OCONUS on military orders this was the only crate that is up to date with IATA requirements, did not have to do any modifications to it as the crate wholes all around were under 1”x1”. super easy to put together and got here faster than expected! 10/10 recommended compared to any other brand out there

Traveling with a pet often comes with its own set of challenges. When I was preparing for a cross-country move, ensuring my pet's safety and comfort during the journey was my top concern. Enter the Petmate Sky Kennel Pet Carrier, a product that turned out to be a lifesaver. Right out of the box, the sturdiness of the Sky Kennel was evident. Made with high-quality materials, it promised durability and security. The 36-inch size was spacious, allowing my medium-sized dog to move around comfortably, lie down, and even stretch a bit. The ventilation on all sides is a thoughtful feature. It ensured a steady flow of fresh air, keeping the interior cool and preventing any feelings of claustrophobia. The secure latch mechanism gave me peace of mind, knowing that my pet would remain safely inside throughout the journey. One feature I particularly appreciated was the clip-on bowls for food and water. It allowed me to ensure my pet stayed hydrated and fed during transit without having to open the kennel. The small storage compartment on top was handy for keeping a leash, some treats, and other essentials. Setting up the kennel was straightforward, and the included "Live Animal" stickers were a useful addition, ensuring that handlers were aware of the precious cargo inside. During our journey, the Sky Kennel lived up to its promise. My pet seemed calm and comfortable, and the kennel held up well, showing no signs of wear or damage. In conclusion, the Petmate Sky Kennel Pet Carrier is more than just a transport crate; it's a safe haven for your pet during travels. It offers a blend of comfort, security, and convenience that both pets and their owners will appreciate. If you're planning to travel with your furry friend, this kennel is a top choice. It ensures that your pet's journey is as smooth and stress-free as yours!

Purchased September 2023 for October 16th 2023 travel date. For those PCSing overseas; I will preface my review with 2 things: 1. Review the most current IATA guidance 2. Everything depends on which check in Agents you have on the day of your flight For those not moving overseas, These kennels are great on their own without any modifications needed at all. If you’re just looking for something to keep in the house or a drive across the US no modifications are required. They make a great kennel option, that you can reasonably consider safe and secure for your pet. For overseas travel on commercial aircraft here are my observations: I purchased 2 XL kennels for 2 dogs, one dog weighing 48 lbs (black and white mix of many breeds) the other 68 lbs (half Sheppard half lab). The XL was slightly too large for the 48 lb dog and slightly too small for the 68 lb dog. Both were close enough to pass, and within the requirements of the IATA regulation. It’s hard to measure a dog, mine were afraid of the tape measure. I got the most actuate measurement of them while they were sitting in the old kennel I had for them, held the tape up against the side while they were sitting and got their height by interpolating between which cross bar of the kennel that their ears came closest to. Call the airline you plan to travel with to get their specific guidance on kennel requirements, some airlines add stipulations to the IATA regulation. I found that some of the additional requirements were based on outdated IATA rules, or simply misinterpreted IATA rules, example: red LIVE animal stickers. This rule actually applies to LAB animals, not pets. The IATA guidance still specifies green live animal stickers, but the airlines use live animal stickers with pictures of live animals, not the words “live animals”. They also use large up arrows to indicate the up direction of the kennel (see pictures). But, I still used the Live animals stickers that came with the kennels, because better safe than sorry. I covered the stickers with 3M packaging tape to keep them from wearing off from moisture. It held up from Dallas to Dusseldorf no problem. The person you talk to on the phone can’t change the airlines policy, so just oblige as best you can and get along with it. The IATA guidance has specific instructions on how to construct your own kennel. If you can’t find one in the correct size and are somewhat handy with tools, it might be worth the time to build your own BUT you need to know the weight limitations your airline has for the kennel plus the dog or animal, so keep that in mind if you choose to build your own (yes you can build your own kennel or pet carrier for cargo pets, follow the IATA guidance) Pet beds/kennel pad/absorbent material: I purchased 2 pet pads, one for each kennel (I shipped 2 dogs) the kennel size I purchased was the XL here’s the link for the pet bed that closely fits the XL: Washable Dog Bed Mat Reversible Dog Crate Pad Soft Fluffy Pet Kennel Beds Dog Sleeping Mattress for Large Jumbo Medium Small Dogs, 41 x 27 Inch, Gray https://a.co/d/gZE7hWM These dog beds are thin but super plushy and soft. I went as far as searching for a fleece bathroom mat to fit the xl kennel because I had a hard time finding a thin dog bed that would fit. These beds are great because they are not very thick, so they don’t add much to the head room or weight, which in my case I needed to preserve for my larger 68 lb dog. They are slightly too big for the XL kennel, but they are thin enough that they have a good bit of give to them and fold up when the door is closed. Under each pet pad I placed an adult bed absorbent pad, made for adult incontinence. I purchased these at wal mart for $17 for 40 pads. I taped one down in each kennel with 3M packing tape around all the edges, and put the pet mat over the top of that. They worked great. The pet palace crew at Frankfurt added their own pet pad. The material was what I’d call a “pigmat”. This is a highly absorbent material we used to use any time we had a fuel leak on an aircraft on the flight line. Also used for soaking up oil and hydraulic fluid in an aircraft maintenance hanger or on equipment with a leak. It’s a thick Cotten like absorbent pad, comes in a box of about 10 for use of the aforementioned purpose. Neither of my 2 dogs had any accidents, but the incontinence pads I put in the kennels soaked up the water that spilled out of their drinking container. Drinking bowl and food bowl: I purchased 4 of these from pet smart (see photo) They are about $9 each. The IATA regulation says that the drinking and food bowl must be secured to the door with a screw on fastener. The ones I purchased from Petsmart have that, but they don’t stay fastened because they are plastic. I drilled two each 1/4 inch holes in each bowl and zip tied them to the kennel door. Every bowl or container I looked at would either break off from the dog or the crew loading it. So I went with zip ties. Dog food/water bowl provided with purchase of kennel: The ONE dog food and water bowl that comes with this kennel is about the size for a cat. It’s small. It doesn’t secure to the door with a screw mechanism, it snaps on the door. This would be fine for a small dog or cat, but probably would not pass the initial inspection for a dog UNLESS it was drilled thru with 1/4 inch drill bit and zip tied to the door. But you would need 2 of them. The IATA regulation requires one food and one water container. This one would likely fall off during flight. Not to mention it’s pretty shallow and has no lip around the rim, so most of the water will splash out when it’s moved even a little. You can use a water bottle style that mounts to the outside, but the IATA regulations says it has to be fillable from the outside of the kennel without having to open the door, so the provided one would only be suitable for a food container. I initially was going to use the provided container as a food dish, but my 68 lb dog has a fetish for chewing plastic and it only lasted a few days before she discovered it could come off the door and then turned it into small pieces of plastic. Provided bolts: the bolts are 10-24 size. This size is very close to a 3/16. So close that if you purchase a box of 50 or so 3/16 lock nuts from ACE or your hardware store, you can double up on the lock nuts on each bolt to satisfy the “no sharp edges” requirement of the IATA regulation. The screws/bolts provided are 10-24 carriage bolts, and are a little longer than 1 1/4 inch. Most airlines require a metal fastener to secure the kennel top and bottom, which comes from the IATA regulation. These kennels come with a plastic “nut” that satisfies the no sharp edges requirement, but not the metal fastener requirement. Zip Ties/cable ties: I flew on Lufthansa, the zip ties they had at the check in counter for Lufthansa at Dallas were huge. To large to fit in the pre drilled hole to secure the door closed to the kennel (don’t do this yourself before TSA inspects the kennel, you’ll have to have the kennel inspected by tsa prior to putting your dog inside). I brought 16 zip ties, enough to close them in and re-secure the door if I was able to let them out at Frankfurt, my connecting flight. I also brought a pair of diagonal cutters so I could cut the zip tie ends and be able to remove the zip ties (cable ties) if able at my connection at Frankfurt. The current TSA rules say you can bring hand tools in a plier configuration as long as they are less than 7 inches when assembled. Thankfully Frankfurt has a “puppy palace” team which lets them out on connections, plays with them, feeds them, adds absorbent padding, etc. I did need the diagonal pliers aka (diagonal cutters, dikes, etc.) once I picked up the dogs at the Dusseldorf baggage claim so I could let them out to go potty once more before the 2 hour shuttle ride to our final destination. Each corner needs a cable tie. The holes on these are large enough to accommodate the airlines massive HVAC sized cable ties, but that is overkill and for good reason. If your dog is an escape artist, let the airline cable tie the corners with their big ties. If your dog is generally tame and doesn’t typically dig or weasel their way out of a plastic bag, a normal size zip tie will Work. Price: I think I paid $176 per kennel on Amazon, which is pretty good compared to a pet store, however I found on the empty shelf for the exact kennels at the BX for $167. If you’re at a larger base or post, check your BX, PX, NEX, etc to see if they have them in stock or can order them, chances are you could save a few more dollars if you have time to wait. I did not have the time to wait, I needed time for my 2 fur monsters to acclimate to the new kennels quickly, which they did and they seem to love them. I have 2 kennels here in Germany, but they seem to prefer to sleep in the same one at night together. Durability: no issues with any parts failing or breaking on any leg of the trip. They are not indestructible, but they also aren’t a solid wooden table from the 20th century. A 50 lb kid could jump on them and they’d give a little, but still work. It isn’t a work bench. IATA “gotchas”: there are pictures in the IATA regulations that show needing 1 inch by 1 Inch 3mm thick welded wire mesh over holes in the kennel. I believe this pertains to homemade kennels, not this specific kennel. I did purchase the materials to cover the pre drilled air holes in the back of this kennel, but ended up not installing it because the IATA regulation says all holes must provide bite protection for handlers. The holes that are pre drilled are small enough to provide bite protection from a larger dog (provided a handler doesn’t insert their finger into the hole), so I did not install and my kennels were accepted on all legs of my journey. Check in agent: I read the IATA rules a dozen times, called Lufthansa half a dozen times to get their interp of the rules. It all came down to the agent at the desk at the time of check in, she was brand new. She didn’t know anything other than I needed to show a health certificate, she didn’t check the vaccination record, she forgot to charge me for the flight of the dogs, she forgot to print out and attach the baggage transfer stickers (aka IATA tags) to the kennels. She was very nice and clearly overwhelmed but handled it well, and I was very patient with her. The supervisor was bouncing from agent to agent checking on them and reminding them of “do this, check that” sort of stuff. Luckily the tsa agent was also chill, but she’s the one who realized the bag transfer tags weren’t on the kennel. Had she not caught that, my dogs would have probably stayed at Frankfurt when I left for dusseldorf. That’s why I believe it’s largely going to be up to the gate agent, animal inspector and tsa agent at the airport to make the call if you’re good to go or not. Also things like how busy the terminal is at the moment, # of people checking large cargo, etc. I showed up 3.5 hours early for my flight and the line was 100+ people long. They set me to the side with my 4 bags and 2 kennels and 2 dogs and I waited patiently, had a good attitude and was compliant with their requests. They did not make me change one thing or have any problems with the kennels or the dogs. No one measured the dogs, or viewed them inside the kennel to ensure size, in fact they didn’t even weigh the dogs. They just asked me what the weight was. They did weigh the empty kennels. I hope that this review helps and that your experience PCSing with a pet using one of these kennels is as smooth as mine and I wish you the best of luck in your journey.

Excellent kennel crate for my German Versatile Hunting puppy I’m picking up in Ga on the 20th July/9 weeks old. . Likely 12-15lbs currently. This is a very excellent product/USPS delivery- excellent/ came together perfectly. Ripsnorter Upland Mist Von Apalach / -Misty. . A larger size like this one when it is needed someday. . Quality. Safe/well made in the USA!!!

I just adopted a pair of small (part chihuahua) senior dogs. I needed a sturdy kennel for each of them that could be used in the house or for auto and air travel. After thoroughly reading the reviews on several different kinds of kennels and checking up on the airlines' requirements, I purchased two Petmate Sky Kennels. The kennels come in a variety of sizes. Since my "pups" max out (and may possibly slightly exceed) the requirements for the small kennel, I decided to buy the next size up. My choice was based on the fact that these kennels are large enough for both dogs to share one of these kennels in the house, but, for safety's sake, each dog would also have a kennel that fit the airlines' requirements when traveling long distances. I am impressed with how strong these kennels seem to be. The kennels were quickly and easily assembled with the eleven metal bolts and (what appear to be exceptionally strong) well-designed, easy to tighten, wing nuts. (Airlines may require you to replace these plastic wing nuts with metal ones.) There are also six strategically placed ready-made holes for the plastic zip ties required for air travel. The zip tie holes are at each corner as well as at the top and bottom of the door. The door, when closed, is securely fastened by metal pins that extend up into the kennel frame at each corner of the door. The door locking mechanism is firm. but can be opened with one hand. Several "Live Animal" stickers were already fastened to each kennel. Ventilation holes on each of the four sides should provide adequate air to each animal. All four sides also have a sturdy edge that protrudes beyond the side. This should assure that the air vents are not blocked. They also act as handles for lifting the kennels. Each kennel also has a carrying handle on the top. If you need to disassemble the kennels for storage, the top and bottom are designed to nest, requiring less storage space. A small divided food dish that hooks onto the door grill was included with each kennel. My only complaint is that there was no pet bed or padding included with the kennel. I should be able to purchase one without any problem. I will use thee kennels for my dogs' sleeping quarters in the house, for safer car travel, and if I need to fly them somewhere. After I assembled the first kennel, I opened the door, tossed in some soft blankets, and watched in surprise as both dogs immediately walked into it and laid down for a snooze. Obviously, they liked it, which made me one happy kennel owner!

Three days ago we took The Big Retirement Move from Texas to the UK. This moved was carefully planned for years and was almost scuppered by this kennel. If you have never taken a pet to the UK you can't possibly know how difficult and expensive it is. It's a months long process of meticulous paperwork and timing for shots and worm treatment that involves finding a USDA certified pet, getting a USDA pet export license, filing reams of paperwork with the airlines and not the lease, reams and reams of paperwork with the UK gov't. The total cost was $975 on Virgin Atlantic, £350 to UK animal control, about $100 to the USDA in fees and travel and about $200 in vet bills to fill out paperwork. All of the paperwork and vet treatments are on a very tight timeline and if you mess up in any way your dog will be in quarantine in the UK for six months. Not easy, not cheap and very stressful. UK rules say the dog, no matter how small, must be in the hold in a pet carrier, so we bought this one from Amazon thinking it was the sturdiest and most well made we could find. We planned our trip to make it as easy on our Pomeranian Yoshi as possible and booked a Delta flight from Central Texas to Boston were Yoshi could stay in the cabin with use, spent the night in Boston (the pet-friendly Hilton at Boston-Logan) and took Virgin Atlantic to London Heathrow. The carrier was sent as part of our luggage and made it fine on the Texas to Boston leg. As we were leaving the hotel and pushing our luggage, Yoshi and the carrier to the airport (we walked from the hotel to the international terminal, which are connected by a walkway/skybridge) the carrier fell off the trolley and SHATTERED like a cheap beer bottle!! It didn't fall two feet off a slow moving luggage trolley onto carpet and was totally empty and yet it broke apart through the plastic (not the hinges or the fastenings), literally shattering into pieces. I can't tell you how upsetting this was. There we were, hours away from boarding our plane and literally on the way to the VA Air cargo place to deliver our dog for transport, and now we had no carrier. We called around to local PetsMart, but the nearest we could find a carrier was in Cambridge, Mass, an hour away by cab. If we didn't find a carrier we'd miss our plane and we would be out thousands of dollars because we'd be stuck in Boston in a $400/night hotel and forced to look for a USDA vet that could redo Yoshi's shots and paperwork. Not only were we upset about this disaster, we were upset that our beloved dog would have been inside when it broke apart during transfer from the ground to the plane during loading. People wonder how dogs escape out of planes during loading and run around airport runways, and now I know. We ran around Logan looking for duct tape to repair the carrier in the (vain) hope we could fix it. A lovely TSA man helped us out with some tape, and we took the carrier to the VA Cargo office to see what they said, even though they told us on the phone that ANY duct tape was not allowed. On the way to the office, as we crossed the parking lot, I saw an abandoned carrier on the side of the road where someone had imported a dog and left the carrier by a trash can. It was beat up and was a cheaper carrier, but intact and workable and we stripped off the stickers and bills of lading and used that one. We were very, very lucky. So, after tears, heart attacks and a horrible trip on the plane worrying about Yoshi in the hold, we made it home safe and sound, but no thanks to Petmate Sky Kennel

This crate is HUGE! Fits my pup weighs 103lb/~46.7kg, 78cm/31in'' in height, 40in'' length. Needed to order the 48'' for travel. Works with Lufthansa despite their max dimensions, just depends on the airliner you fly with (check with your airline before ordering!) Easily assembled. Very sturdy and stable. Came with bolts. Recommend ordering other bowls for food and water. Crate + Dogs weight came out to 151lb/68.5kg.

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I purchased this product on Amazon.de to have a kennel available in Germany to fly our dog Rexy home to the US. Upon unpacking I already noticed that the plastic seemed very "soft" and flimsy. However, I was in a bind and decided to keep the kennel. Sure enough after the flight from FRA-MSP when I took Rexy out there was a hairline crack in the middle of the bottom and soon thereafter the corner broke off on its left side, see pictures. Very disappointing for a kennel that expensive.

Raza mediana. El precio es muy bueno comparado con el mercado (veterinarias, tiendas de mascotas, tiendas de autoservicio, etc), te ahorras una buena diferencia. El material de la transportadora es muy resistente y de buena calidad, es fácil de armar-desarmar en muy poco tiempo. Contiene tornillos y mariposas adicionales de repuesto, sin embargo, no recibí los platitos que se muestran en la fotografía (no importante para mí). La rejita y los seguros para bloquearla son muy buenos, muy dificíl que tu mascota pueda forzarlos para salir. Adicionalmente contiene dos calcomanías de "live animals" por separado para poder pegarlas cuando sea necesario - la transportadora ya tiene un par de ellas adheridas.

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