Stackable crates for two Beagles

Stacking crates is a smart move for a two-dog room — it keeps each dog with their own space without doubling your floor footprint. The key thing with crates is getting the size right first: too small causes real distress, but too large takes away the den-like feel that makes dogs settle. For Beagles, material matters too — wire is usually the best fit for home use since it gives good airflow and visibility between them. Before I point you at anything specific, can you tell me roughly how big your two Beagles are — standard size or on the smaller or larger end? And are they already crate-comfortable, or are you building that habit from scratch?

Perfect — standard adult Beagles at that weight sit comfortably in a 30-inch crate. That gives them enough room to stand, turn, and lie stretched out without so much space that it stops feeling like a den. Since they're already crate-trained, you're not asking the crate to do any heavy lifting behaviourally — you just need a robust, stackable wire option that won't flex or rattle when they move around. Are they calm in the crate, or does either one tend to push at the sides or dig at the tray?

That's useful — a bit of initial fussing is normal and nothing that needs a heavier-duty crate to manage. What you want is a crate with a sturdy slide-bolt latch and a reinforced base tray so the scratching doesn't warp it over time. For two Beagles at 30 inches, stacked, I'd go with the Elitefield 2-Door Folding Metal Dog Crate, 30 inch — sold individually on Amazon UK, so you buy two and stack them. The frame is robust welded wire, the tray is solid ABS plastic that handles the occasional scratcher well, and the feet on the base unit have rubber grips so the stack sits stable on hard floors. The latches are firm double-bolt closures, not the flimsy single-clip type that rattle. At 30 inches they're correctly sized for your Beagles, and stacked they take up the floor space of one crate. That's the one I'd get.

The top crate sits inside the rim of the lower one's roof panel — it's a natural recess rather than a flat surface, so there's no real risk of it sliding off with normal movement. That said, I'd always place the stack against a wall as a precaution, not freestanding in the middle of a room. The main thing to check when your crates arrive is that both are fully squared up before you stack — if the lower one is slightly twisted in assembly the top won't sit flush. Takes about 30 seconds to confirm before you load a dog in. Once they're level and against the wall, it's genuinely stable day-to-day.

Put the settled one on top and the scratcher on the bottom. The lower crate sits directly on the floor so it has more inherent stability and absorbs that early-door scratching without transmitting movement to the crate above. The dog on top is also slightly more exposed visually, which tends to suit the calmer of the two better. Once your scratcher has fully settled into the routine — usually within a week or two if he's already crate-familiar — it won't make a meaningful difference either way, but that's the setup I'd start with.