Dog boarding and day care in Canterbury, area by area
Canterbury's seven defined areas hold this directory's eleven dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses very unevenly: Whitstable & Tankerton alone has five, while three areas have none at all.
| Area | Listed businesses |
|---|---|
| Whitstable & Tankerton | 5 |
| Sturry, Blean, Rough Common & Hersden | 3 |
| Herne Bay | 2 |
| Canterbury city centre | 1 |
| Wincheap | 0 |
| Chartham & Chartham Hatch | 0 |
| Bridge, Bossingham & Barham | 0 |
Whitstable & Tankerton and Sturry
Whitstable & Tankerton's five businesses are the home boarders Jenkins Canine Services, Milo & Co, Red Lion Canines and Whitstable Dog Care, plus the area's one boarding kennels, Pet Lodge Boarding Kennels & Hydrotherapy Centre. Sturry, Blean, Rough Common & Hersden's three are the home boarders and day cares Muddy Pups, K9 Kindergarten and Handy Pet Services.
Herne Bay and Canterbury city centre
Herne Bay's two are Bay Pawz, a groomer that also holds a home-boarding licence, and Barking Mad (Canterbury & Herne Bay). Canterbury city centre has one, We Love Pets Canterbury & Whitstable, based there but covering Whitstable as well.
Wincheap, Chartham & Chartham Hatch, and Bridge, Bossingham & Barham
No business on this page has a confirmed phone number in any of these three areas. Chartham & Chartham Hatch and Bridge, Bossingham & Barham each have one Canterbury City Council-licensed business recorded in this directory's research that could not be published because no phone number could be confirmed for it. If you are based in Wincheap, the nearest listed options are in Canterbury city centre or Whitstable, both a short drive away.
How these areas were worked out
An area shown here follows the postcode district a business's address sits in, matching the same convention already used on this site's dog-grooming pages for Canterbury. Every business shown also has a confirmed phone number, so the counts above only include businesses that could actually be reached, not every licensed name found in research.
If you're near the edge of an area
Canterbury's seven areas follow postcode districts rather than exact boundaries, so a business shown under one area may still be a short drive from a neighbouring one. If a nearby area shows none, or fewer than you expected, it's worth checking the areas either side of it as well before assuming nothing is available near you.
Why coverage is so uneven
Whitstable & Tankerton's strong showing partly reflects how many independent home boarders operate from the seaside towns rather than the cathedral city itself, while Canterbury's own city centre is mostly shops, colleges and housing without much space for a kennels or a large day-care site. Sturry, Blean, Rough Common & Hersden also holds several licensed home boarders whose listing could not be confirmed here for lack of a phone number, so its true number of licensed operators is higher than the three shown.