How Woking's councils license its 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: Woking Borough Council licenses the woking and woking-south-old-woking areas, Guildford Borough Council licenses ripley-send, and Surrey Heath Borough Council licenses bisley-west-end-chobham.
Why no star rating is shown here
All three councils' registers were read for this page through animal-licensing.uk, a third-party mirror of each council's own licensing data, rather than directly from a council's own site. Unlike Charnwood Borough Council elsewhere on this site, none of the three councils covering Woking has published anything confirming it treats this mirror as its own official output, so no star rating is shown for any business on this page — only the licence type, number and expiry read from the mirror. This is a cautious choice, not a sign that these businesses are unrated: a rating may exist on a council's own system without appearing here.
What the register shows instead
Eleven of the twelve businesses listed here carry a licence number and expiry date confirmed against one of the three registers. Six hold a current Woking Borough Council licence for home boarding or day care: Bright Days Dog Care, Horsell Happy Pets, K9 Instinct, Leads & Laces by A.P.G. and Sophie Walks Dogs for home boarding, and Pawadise Day Care Ltd for day care. Three hold a Guildford Borough Council licence: Bruce's Doggy Day Care (Surrey Hills) and Dog Days Adventure for day care, and Oak Ride Farm Kennels for boarding kennels and cat boarding. The Dog Cottage holds a Surrey Heath Borough Council licence for home boarding, and The Dogfather (Pyrford) holds a Woking Borough Council day-care licence under a named licence-holder rather than the trading name itself.
Two licences that need checking
Pawadise Day Care Ltd's day-care licence, as read from the register for this page, was due to expire on 13 February 2026 — a date that has now passed, so no current licence panel is shown on its page while that remains unconfirmed; ask whether it has since been renewed before you book. Small Paw Adventures states a Woking Borough Council home-boarding licence on its own site, but the number given does not appear on the register as checked for this page, so no licence is shown for it either; ask about this directly rather than take the website's word for it.
Reading a licence entry
Wherever it is confirmed, a licence covers premises or home standards, record-keeping and how many dogs a business may keep at once; it does not fix a price, promise a particular room, or guarantee a certain group size. Ask any business here to show you its current licence certificate and its number, and check it against the relevant council's own register rather than taking a website's word for it, especially where this page cannot show you a star rating to compare businesses against.