Home boarding or kennels in Barnsley?
Of the twelve dog boarding and home-boarding businesses listed for Barnsley, seven are home boarders, licensed to keep dogs in their own house: Paw Power Dog Boarding, Knuckle Dog Services and Penistone Pets, all in the Penistone and Dodworth area; Chapel House Hounds and Wagnificent Walkies, both near Royston; Hopwood Hippy, in Barnsley town centre; and Klass Dog Services, in the Wombwell and Hoyland area. The other five run boarding kennels instead: 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.
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. Animal Inn, in Wombwell, runs from over 20 acres of fields next to the Trans Pennine Trail and offers a collection and delivery service. Rob Royd Boarding Kennels & Cattery, in Worsborough, has traded since 1984 and describes its cattery as insulated for both winter and summer. Noah's Ark Pet Holiday Home, in Shafton, pairs its kennels with an on-site grooming salon and is the only kennels here to publish a price, at £16.50 a day for a dog. The Cliffe Kennels, near Hoylandswaine, runs alongside a dog rehoming operation on the same five-acre site and states it has traded since 1965; Foxholes Animal Hotel, near Haigh, includes daily dog walks around the site as part of a stay and opens seven days a week.
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. Knuckle Dog Services, run by Sally from 27 acres in the Penistone area, offers day care as well as home boarding, and does not accept unneutered male dogs. Chapel House Hounds, run by Rachel near Royston, also offers dog walking, sitting and grooming, and takes cats alongside dogs. Klass Dog Services, in the Wombwell and Hoyland area, is run by Wednesday Adams, a former armed forces and prison service worker. Paw Power Dog Boarding and Penistone Pets, both in the Penistone area, and Wagnificent Walkies, near Royston, each board only one household's dogs at a time and publish little beyond their own contact details, so ask directly about a typical day in the house and how many other dogs might be there.
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: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council licenses both kennels and home boarding under the same register, so asking to see the certificate is the same question either way. See our council licences guide for how each is licensed and rated.