Last year a vet in Chengdu called me. She’d just leased a second exam room and wanted hospitalization capacity, but her back room was one hundred forty square feet total — sink, autoclave, shelving, three cages already fighting for floor space. She needed more housing without more footprint. Standard single-deck kennels would give her two more compartments at best. The PC02 gave her four compartments in roughly the floor space of a refrigerator.
Two levels, four compartments — two over two — in a footprint about eighty centimeters wide and sixty deep. “Dry” means no bottom collection tray. Each compartment floor is solid stainless you wipe down between patients. No pull-out pan, no drain plumbing, no sump. For short-stay patients — day surgery holds, pre-anesthetic waiting, observation after a vaccine reaction. The kind of housing where the dog is in for two to six hours and you need to turn the space in under five minutes.
304 stainless throughout. Cleaning chemicals don’t get milder just because the cage is smaller. Welds are smooth and sealed. Sized for small to medium dogs — Beagle, Corgi, Frenchie, Shih Tzu. A Labrador fits but won’t be happy for more than an hour or two. A Great Dane won’t fit at all.
Full-width front doors with two-point latch mechanism — slide bolt top, slide bolt bottom. A single-point latch creates a pivot a determined medium dog can flex. I’ve seen a Boxer bow a single-latch door enough to squeeze through. Two-point latching distributes the load.
Between upper and lower compartments: solid stainless divider, not mesh, not bars. Waste from the top doesn’t drip onto the dog below. Solid divider also provides sound and visual separation — a reactive dog who can’t see the dog above him settles faster. Noise reduction matters more than people realize in multi-dog wards.
The PC02 is for small practices where every square foot matters — solo vets, micro-practices, mobile units needing collapsible housing, specialty practices where patients come for procedures and leave same day. If your typical hospital stay is measured in hours, not days, the PC02 gives you four compartments in the footprint of two. If you admit overnight patients regularly, you’ll want something with more depth. But for day-use throughput where every square meter counts, the PC02 delivers density without crowding your workflow. Drop me your room dimensions and I’ll tell you the layout that maximizes housing without making your techs walk sideways between cages.
