Home boarding or kennels in Cardiff?
Cardiff's twenty-four listed boarders, day cares and kennels are mostly home boarders: seventeen board dogs in the boarder's own house, against seven businesses running from a separate premises — five with boarding kennels and two dedicated day-care sites with no overnight stay.
Home boarding
Home from Home Dog Boarding, Wagging Tails Dog Boarding Cardiff, Lucy's Leads Cardiff and Fran's Happy Hounds cover Ely & Fairwater; PontK9, Wallace Pet Boarding and Danescourt & Radyr Pet Care cover Canton & Grangetown; Cardiff Dog Sitting, Fur Baby Services and Cariad Pet Care cover Roath & Penylan; Jackie's Pet Care Services & Doggy Digs, The Tru:dog Academy, Paws & Claws Pet Boarding and Home from Home Dog Hotel cover Llanishen & Whitchurch; and K9 Services Wales, Rachel's Pet Care Services and Sit 'n' Stay Petminding cover Penarth & Barry. A home boarder usually takes far fewer dogs at once than a kennels, often just one household's dogs alongside its own. As with every home boarder on this site, only the area and town are shown here; the address is given once you book.
Boarding kennels
Teleview Kennels, Tyn-y-Coed Country Lodge for Dogs and Slanwood Kennels, Cattery & Dog Grooming, all in Ely & Fairwater, plus The Boarding Centre Cardiff Kennels & Cattery in Llanishen & Whitchurch and Little Green Westra in Penarth & Barry, run purpose-built kennel blocks. A kennels usually has room for more dogs at once, set feeding and exercise times, and staff on site rather than one family; several of these five also run a cattery or offer grooming alongside boarding.
Day care only
Doggie Day Camp Cardiff, in Ely & Fairwater, and Canis DayCare, in Llanishen & Whitchurch, run day care but do not board dogs overnight. See our day care or boarding guide for the full split between day care and overnight stays.
Cardiff city centre and Cathays
No home boarder, kennels or day care was found with a confirmed address inside Cardiff city centre or Cathays for this research. If you live centrally, the nearest listed businesses are in Roath & Penylan and Canton & Grangetown.
Privacy and premises
A boarding kennels is a business premises in the ordinary sense, so its address appears on its listing here. A home boarder's licence, by contrast, is issued to a person at their own house, which is a different kind of privacy: this site shows only the area and town for a home boarder, never a street, and gives the address once you have booked, whether or not the business itself publishes an address elsewhere.
Choosing between them
A nervous dog that dislikes sharing space with strange dogs may do better with a home boarder taking one household at a time; a sociable dog might prefer a kennels' larger group and more structured day. Ask a home boarder how many other dogs will be there during your dates, and ask a kennels about its run and group sizes, before you decide.