Dog boarding and day care prices in Southampton
Prices are as the businesses published them when we last checked (September 2026). They can change without notice, so confirm them when you book.
Published pricing is rare among the fifteen dog boarders and day cares listed for Southampton: only two publish anything. Barking Mad Southampton, a home-boarding franchise covering the city centre and neighbouring areas, publishes a full price list; Pet Carers Ltd, a home boarder based in Totton, publishes one figure, for its small-breed day care. This guide sets out exactly what is published, rather than guessing at the rest.
Published prices, September 2026
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Home boarding, one dog (per day) | £33.50 |
| Home boarding, two dogs (per day) | £50 |
| Day care, four hours | £20 |
| Day care, nine hours | £30 |
| Dog walking, 30 minutes | £10 |
| Dog walking, one hour | £14 |
| Daily drop-in visit, one hour | £15 |
| Pet sitting at the owner's home (per night) | £55 |
These are Barking Mad Southampton's own published rates for its host-family network, which covers the city centre, Shirley, Bassett, Portswood, Bitterne and neighbouring areas. It matches a dog with a vetted local host family rather than boarding it at one fixed address, so the day rate covers the host's care rather than a kennel run.
Pet Carers Ltd's price
Pet Carers Ltd, a one-to-one home boarder based in Totton, publishes a single figure: £27 a day for small-breed day care, for up to two dogs, Monday to Friday. It has not published a price for its main service, home boarding.
Why so few prices are published online
Ten of the fifteen businesses listed for Southampton are home boarders, taking dogs into their own house rather than running a business premises with a price list on a website; most publish no price at all, and several have no website of their own, only a phone number and a council register entry. The four boarding kennels in the directory — Copied Hall Kennels, Chilworth Kennels and Cattery, Hampshire Dog Boarding and Delvallie Boarding Kennels — all publish opening hours or drop-off windows but none quotes a figure online, and Sirius Doggy Daycare & Grooming, a day-care and grooming business in Hythe, does the same. Southampton City Council, which covers the city centre, Shirley and Bitterne areas, keeps no public licensing register at all, so there is no register entry to check a price against either; the New Forest District Council register that covers Totton and Hythe lists licence type and, where known, a licence number, but never a price.
What to ask when you call
- How the price is worked out: most quotes in this niche turn on the size of the dog and the length of the stay.
- Whether a bank holiday, collection, or a second dog from the same household costs extra.
- Whether the first and last day of an overnight stay are charged as full days or as a set of hours.
- Whether day care is charged by the half day or the full day, and what the cut-off time is.
- Whether a deposit is required to hold a date, and what the cancellation terms are.
With two published price lines across fifteen businesses, a phone call is still the only way to compare prices in Southampton. Ask the same set of questions of each business you call, so the quotes you get back are actually comparable.