Dog boarding and day care in Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket, area by area
All eight areas covered by this page have at least one listed dog boarder, day care or kennels, though the numbers vary a great deal: Mildenhall & Lakenheath has the most, with seven, while Newmarket and Haverhill have only one each. A search for “kennels Stowmarket” or “dog boarding Mildenhall” is often a better match for what's actually nearby than a search for the whole town, so this page runs through what's in each area.
By area
| Area | Postcodes | Businesses |
|---|---|---|
| Mildenhall & Lakenheath | IP26, IP27, IP28 | 7 |
| Bury St Edmunds | IP28-IP33 | 6 |
| Stowmarket | IP14 | 4 |
| Diss & Eye | IP21-IP23 | 4 |
| Sudbury | CO10 | 2 |
| Thetford & Brandon | IP24, IP27 | 2 |
| Newmarket | CB8 | 1 |
| Haverhill | CB9 | 1 |
Mildenhall & Lakenheath and Bury St Edmunds
Mildenhall & Lakenheath's seven include a mix of kennels (Church Farm, Lindcoly, Pine Farm and Winterbrooke), day care (Mischief Doggy Day Care Centre and The House of Muddy Paws) and a home boarder, KCO Pets. Bury St Edmunds itself has six, spanning boarding kennels (Ixworth Country Kennels), a combined day care and kennels site (Camp Tails Doggy Daycare), a day care and training business (East Anglian Dog Training and Grooming) and three home boarders (The Dog Hotel Whepstead, We Love Pets Bury St Edmunds and Holidays4Dogs).
Stowmarket and Diss & Eye
Stowmarket's four include two boarding kennels that also offer training (Acorn Kennels, Boundary Kennels & Training) and a day care and home-boarding pair run from the same farm (Doggie Daydreamz and Doggie Sweetdreamz). Diss & Eye's four are three boarding kennels and catteries (Goldbrook, Quiet Acres and Wortham) plus a home boarder, Phoenix House Home Boarding, near Diss itself.
Sudbury, Thetford & Brandon, Newmarket and Haverhill
Sudbury has one kennels (Waterhall Kennels & Cattery) and one day care and home boarding business (The Dog House Daycare). Thetford & Brandon has one long-established kennels (Forest Animal Boarding) and one day care with a self-service dog wash (Pooch's Yard - Doggy Day Care). Newmarket and Haverhill each have a single listing: Moulton Pet Sitters, a home boarder, and Hanchett Hall Boarding Kennels & Cattery. Both areas are genuinely thinner on this page than in West Suffolk Council's own records, since its register gives no address field at all, so most of its wider home-boarding list could not be confidently placed in either town specifically — see our choosing guide for more on that gap.
A postcode can span two areas
IP28 covers both Bury St Edmunds and Mildenhall & Lakenheath, and IP26 and IP27 cover both Mildenhall & Lakenheath and Thetford & Brandon, so the same postcode district does not always mean the same area on this page. Businesses here are placed by the actual village or town in their own address rather than by postcode alone — Church Farm, Lindcoly, Pine Farm and KCO Pets are all IP28 addresses in villages between Mildenhall and Lakenheath rather than in Bury St Edmunds itself, for example. If you live right on one of these postcode boundaries, it is worth checking the neighbouring area's listings too rather than assuming everything nearby sits under your own postcode's area.