Day care or boarding in Loughborough and Melton Mowbray?
Day care and overnight boarding solve different problems, and several of this area's businesses offer both. Of the fourteen boarders, day cares and kennels listed across Loughborough, Shepshed & Quorn, Melton Mowbray, Coalville and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, eleven list day care among their services.
Overnight only, no day care
Three businesses offer overnight boarding only, with no day care listed among their services: Buena Vista Boarding Kennels & Cattery, a kennels and cattery in Melton Mowbray, and two home boarders in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Cosy Canine Club Ashby and The Dogs Dog Sitters.
Day care only, no overnight stay
Two businesses run day care only, with no overnight boarding among their services: Dogtastic Daycare, in Coalville, and Farmlands Canine Country Club Dog Day Care, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch (see our council licences guide for a caution about Farmlands' current licence before you rely on it).
The ones that offer both
The remaining nine businesses offer day care and an overnight stay side by side. In Loughborough, Care4Paws, Woof Lodge Dog Hotel and Zewmies Pet Care Services are all home boarders that also take day-care bookings. Pucci Dogs Daycare & Home Boarding, in Shepshed & Quorn, and Ashby Happy Hounds, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, are the same shape: a home boarder with a day-care licence alongside it. Old Parsonage Kennels & Cattery, in Shepshed & Quorn, and Murrayhill Boarding Kennels, Old Station Kennels and White Lodge Boarding Kennels and Cattery, all three in Melton Mowbray, run day care and overnight kennels from the same dedicated site rather than a home.
Ask which one you actually need
If you are not sure whether your dog needs a day or a night away, describe your situation directly: how long the dog will be away from you, whether it has been left with strangers before, and whether it needs medication or has any anxiety around other dogs. A kennels stay and a day at a day-care premises are licensed differently by the council, so this is also a question worth asking as part of checking a business's licence. Opening and drop-off hours also vary between the day-care sites here: Dogtastic Daycare opens Monday to Friday 7am to 5:45pm, while Old Station Kennels and White Lodge Boarding Kennels and Cattery both set narrower drop-off and collection windows either side of the day rather than an all-day service, so check the exact times before you plan a journey either way.
Cats alongside dogs
Three of the businesses here also board cats alongside dogs: Old Parsonage Kennels & Cattery, Buena Vista Boarding Kennels & Cattery and White Lodge Boarding Kennels and Cattery. If you need cover for more than one type of pet at the same time, ask directly whether a business can take both under one booking rather than assuming a dog-only business will.
See our area-by-area guide for where each of these fourteen businesses actually sits, and our prices guide for what the three that publish a figure actually charge for a day or a night.