Home boarding or kennels in Loughborough and Melton Mowbray?
Of the fourteen dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses listed for Loughborough and Melton Mowbray, seven are home boarders, licensed to keep dogs in their own house: Care4Paws, Woof Lodge Dog Hotel and Zewmies Pet Care Services, all in Loughborough; Pucci Dogs Daycare & Home Boarding, in Shepshed & Quorn; and Ashby Happy Hounds, Cosy Canine Club Ashby and The Dogs Dog Sitters, all in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Five run boarding kennels from a dedicated site instead, all in either Shepshed & Quorn or Melton Mowbray: Old Parsonage Kennels & Cattery, Buena Vista Boarding Kennels & Cattery, Murrayhill Boarding Kennels, Old Station Kennels and White Lodge Boarding Kennels and Cattery. The remaining two run day care only, from premises rather than either a home or a kennels block: Dogtastic Daycare, in Coalville, and Farmlands Canine Country Club Dog Day Care, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
What a boarding kennels gives you
A boarding kennels means your dog has its own space on a site built for it, with set feeding and exercise times and more dogs on site at once than a home boarder would take. Murrayhill Boarding Kennels has run for more than 40 years with 32 kennels for up to 75 dogs, plus a cattery and grooming room, and lets dogs off-lead in a controlled area rather than keeping them on a lead throughout their stay. Old Station Kennels has 26 kennels set across 1.7 acres of grass fields with two ponds and four exercise paddocks, and runs dog training classes alongside boarding. White Lodge Boarding Kennels and Cattery is a small, family-run site with 44 years' experience that also rescues and rehomes retired greyhounds.
What a home boarder gives you
A home boarder means your dog lives in somebody's house instead, usually alongside only one household's own dogs at a time; the address is given once you book, not published here. Ashby Happy Hounds is run alongside the family's own spaniel and only takes spaniel-sized dogs and smaller. Cosy Canine Club Ashby hosts a small number of boarding dogs alongside its own three resident dogs, and only takes small and medium-sized dogs. The Dogs Dog Sitters asks new clients about a dog's routine and personality and arranges a meet-and-greet before a first stay.
The day-care-only premises
Dogtastic Daycare, at Broom Leys Farm on the edge of Coalville, is run by a qualified trainer and behaviourist and also hires out a secure field rather than boarding dogs overnight at all. Farmlands Canine Country Club Dog Day Care, on farmland off the Ashby bypass, runs tailored farm walks and an adventure play paddock, also without overnight boarding.
Which suits your dog
A kennels tends to suit a dog that is happy with its own space and a set routine; a home boarder tends to suit a dog that finds a kennels environment stressful, or one that is used to living in a house rather than a run. Neither type is licensed to a higher standard than the other by default: each of the three councils covering this area licenses both kennels and home boarding under the same regulations, so asking to see the certificate is the same question either way. See our council licences guide for how each is licensed and rated.