Day care or boarding in Bracknell and Crowthorne?
Day care and overnight boarding solve two different problems, and Bracknell and Crowthorne's fourteen listed businesses lean heavily towards overnight cover: thirteen offer some form of overnight stay, while eight also offer day care alongside it. Only one business here runs day care without any overnight option at all, and this town has no day-care-only site the way a purpose-built day-care centre in a bigger town might run.
Day care: for a working day, not a holiday
Day care is for a dog that would otherwise be alone through a working day: it goes in after breakfast and comes home at teatime rather than staying overnight. Hot Dogs Grooming and Doggy Day Care, trading from Moss End Garden Village in Warfield alongside a grooming salon, is the only business here offering day care without also boarding dogs overnight; it closes for day care on Saturdays, when only grooming runs. Seven more combine day care with home boarding: Berkshire Canine Company, 4 Paws and Pals, Poochies Palace and Active Paws in the Bracknell area, and The Dog Boss, Happy Dogz and Catz and Claire's Canines in Sandhurst and Yateley. None of these seven publish a price for either service, so ask what a day's care costs alongside what a night's boarding costs when you call, since the two are rarely priced the same.
Overnight boarding: kennels or a home
Thirteen of the fourteen businesses offer an overnight stay. Ryslip Group Ltd, near Binfield, is the only boarding kennels listed for this page, and has traded since 1955; it also runs pet travel, export and quarantine services from the same site. The other twelve overnight options are all home boarders, taking your dog into their own house rather than a kennel block: the seven combined day-care-and-boarding businesses named above, plus The Little Pup Lodge and Bravo Dog Training in the Bracknell area, Katy's K9s in Crowthorne, and Amy's Animal Allsorts and Tails on Trails, both of which describe themselves mainly as dog walkers on their own sites but hold a Bracknell Forest Council home boarding licence too. See our home boarding or kennels guide for how a home stay compares with a kennels stay.
Which to choose
If your dog needs looking after during a working day and will sleep at home every night, Hot Dogs Grooming and Doggy Day Care or one of the seven combined businesses above can cover it. If you are going away and need overnight cover, you have a choice of twelve home boarders spread across Bracknell, Crowthorne and Sandhurst and Yateley, or Ryslip Group Ltd's boarding kennels near Binfield. None of the fourteen currently publish a price; see our Bracknell and Crowthorne prices guide for why, and what to ask instead. Whichever you choose, ask about a trial or settling-in visit first; see our first stay guide for what to expect, and see our area-by-area guide for what is listed closest to you.