Day care or boarding in Barnsley?
Barnsley's listed businesses lean heavily towards overnight care rather than day care. Of the twelve boarders and kennels listed here, only two list day care among their services: Knuckle Dog Services and Hopwood Hippy, both home boarders. The other ten offer overnight boarding only, whether in a kennels or in the boarder's own home.
If you need day care
Knuckle Dog Services, a home boarder in the Penistone and Dodworth area, prices day care at £20 a day alongside home boarding at £25 a day, run from 27 acres of countryside with two to three off-lead walks a day. Hopwood Hippy, a home boarder in the Barnsley town centre area, runs day care from 7am to 6pm alongside dog walking, boarding and pet photography, seven days a week including bank holidays. Both are home-based rather than a dedicated day-care premises, so ask how a day visit would work alongside their other bookings.
If you need overnight boarding
The other ten businesses on this page board dogs overnight only. Five run boarding kennels: Animal Inn in Wombwell, The Cliffe Kennels and Foxholes Animal Hotel in the Penistone area, Noah's Ark Pet Holiday Home in Shafton, and Rob Royd Boarding Kennels & Cattery in Worsborough. Five more are home boarders offering overnight stays without a day-care option: Paw Power Dog Boarding and Penistone Pets in the Penistone area, Chapel House Hounds and Wagnificent Walkies near Royston, and Klass Dog Services in the Wombwell and Hoyland area.
Why day care is thin here
Unlike some other towns on this directory, Barnsley's listed businesses are almost all licensed for boarding rather than day care, and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council's own register does not show day care as a separate licence category the way some other councils do; the two businesses that do offer it hold it as an added service alongside a home boarding licence. If a daily drop-off service matters more to you than an overnight stay, it is worth calling Knuckle Dog Services or Hopwood Hippy directly, or asking one of the other ten whether they would consider a single day booking even though it is not something they advertise.
Cats and other pets
Six of the twelve businesses here also take cats: all five boarding kennels — Animal Inn, The Cliffe Kennels, Foxholes Animal Hotel, Noah's Ark Pet Holiday Home and Rob Royd Boarding Kennels & Cattery — plus Chapel House Hounds, a home boarder that also offers cat sitting and boarding. If you need cover for a cat as well as a dog, ask directly whether a business can take both under one booking.
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. See our area-by-area guide for the full breakdown of where Barnsley's twelve listed businesses actually are.