How Loughborough and Melton Mowbray's councils license dog boarders
Dog boarding, home boarding and day care are licensed activities under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018, and this page sits across three separate councils: Charnwood Borough Council licenses Loughborough and Shepshed & Quorn, Melton Borough Council licenses Melton Mowbray, and North West Leicestershire District Council licenses Coalville and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
What each register shows
Melton Borough Council and North West Leicestershire District Council both publish their own PDF registers directly, giving a licence number, star rating and expiry date for every entry. Charnwood Borough Council publishes its own list of animal activity licences as a spreadsheet on its website (September 2026), with a licence number and star rating for each business, and the Charnwood star ratings on this page are read from that list.
How the ratings split
Thirteen of the fourteen businesses listed here carry a star rating from 1 to 5. Care4Paws, Zewmies Pet Care Services, Pucci Dogs Daycare & Home Boarding, Murrayhill Boarding Kennels, Old Station Kennels, White Lodge Boarding Kennels and Cattery, Dogtastic Daycare and Ashby Happy Hounds all sit at 5 stars, the top of the scale. Old Parsonage Kennels & Cattery and Buena Vista Boarding Kennels & Cattery both sit at 3 stars. Woof Lodge Dog Hotel and Farmlands Canine Country Club Dog Day Care sit at 4 stars, and The Dogs Dog Sitters sits at 2 stars, the lowest confirmed here.
A licence that needs checking before you book
Farmlands Canine Country Club Dog Day Care's day-care licence, as read from North West Leicestershire's own register for this page, was due to expire in August 2026 — a date that has now passed, so no current licence detail or star rating is shown on its page while that remains unconfirmed. The register may simply not yet reflect a renewal, so this is not treated as evidence the business has stopped trading; ask Farmlands directly whether its licence has been renewed before you book, and ask to see the current certificate.
Reading a star rating
A star rating shown here is a council licence rating from a risk-based inspection, tied to how often the licence is reinspected and how long it runs for; it is not a customer review, so treat it the way you would a food hygiene rating rather than a Google star. Where a business's own website quotes an older licence number than the one currently shown on its council's register — as with Woof Lodge Dog Hotel and Sophie's near-neighbours in this niche elsewhere on the site — the current register entry is treated as the authoritative figure throughout this page. None of the fourteen businesses here sit in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, so a star rating is shown for every one that currently holds a valid licence; that would not be the case everywhere this directory covers.