Does anyone know where I can buy a tall stand for holding the heat lamp over a whelping box? I want it to extend to approx 4 feet high.

I use 2 paraol holders and water pipes up with the curve attachment with another water pipe over. It has done me very well as we cannot drill into our ceiling.

Please, what ever you do, make sure theres no way it can ever fall especially if the bitch becomes fidgety.
I've just tried to visualise the awful scenario of it falling.
Take care :-) 

tooolz i too had many sleepless nights worring mine would fall (and it was fixed very well into celing...

mum in law has a long pece of wood attached to whelping box umm her box was made of wood too ,and thats how we are doing hows this time ,if you can do it like this it should be 5ft high and if you need to lower the links to the lamp can go up and down ....all lamps should be this hight .

ours hang from a beam in the ceiling.

a hanging basket bracket off the wall works well.  I don't breed dogs but use heat lamps a lot with chicken chicks and hanging basket brackets can be nicely firmly anchered.  put a smoke alarm in room too.

I bought an extending pole form B&Q - can't remember what it was original sold as, perhaps a rail for a shower curtain?  It is two tubes of white coated metal which slot into each other so they can be extended, each segment is about 4' long, and each has a small bracket fitted onto the ends forming a right angle, which is ideal to slilp a large "S" hook into, from which I suspend the chain (hooked twice for extra security)  The height can be adjusted by raising and lowering the chain.  this gave me 2 almsot identcal poles from which to suspend  the lamp, I have saddle bracket on the whelping boxes which they slip into, but when pups porgress inot a puppy pen I fix suing cable ties to the outside of the pen.

Hi Toolz,

No this won't everfall it is joined with the 90% bend angles on either side and each angle is secured with gaffa tape, it is about 5 ft of the whelping box when up but I do appreciate your concern.

> but I do appreciate your concern.

My reply was meant for the OP really.

I dont know about you, but I have terible nightmares about all the things that can go wrong! A heat lamp falling on the babies must be the worst thing that can happen.
My anxiety probably stems from the day I hung my canary cage in the garden on a large, free-standing, cast iron hanging basket thingy.
I knew it was top heavy so put two large stones on the base but a strong gust of wind must have just caught the cage, causing it to fall.
My little bird probably died of the shock more than anything.

Toolz, sorry, I understand your concern as I am petrified of the things too. In this last litter I was half asleep when I heard an almighty bang, everything went black in the dining room as the dull lamp bulb was the only source of light. I turned the main light on to find that the bulb had blown and smashed over the pups, luckily most of it was contained in the cage but some had gone onto the vetbed, just what you don't need at half two in the morning.

It's a wonder we haven't worried ourselves to death :-)