Dog day care and boarding in Carlisle, area by area
Carlisle's ten listed dog day cares, boarding kennels and home boarders are spread unevenly across the town's six defined areas, licensed across two different councils and, in one area, no register at all. This guide lists exactly what is published in each, and says plainly where coverage is thin or missing; see our council licences guide for the detail behind each star rating mentioned below.
| Area | Businesses listed |
|---|---|
| Carlisle city centre | 1 |
| Stanwix & Kingstown | 0 |
| Brampton | 2 |
| Penrith | 3 |
| Wigton & Silloth | 3 |
| Cockermouth & Keswick | 1 |
Carlisle city centre
One business is listed here: Top Dog Doggy Day Care, on the Willowholme Industrial Estate, the town's only day-care licence. It has traded since 2021, holds a 5-star Cumberland Council day-care licence current to August 2028, and publishes a from price of £17 a session — the only published price anywhere in Carlisle.
Stanwix & Kingstown: no business listed
No business is currently listed for this area. Research found one possible boarding kennels on the Kingstown Industrial Estate, but its trading name could not be confirmed, so nothing is shown here for now; a follow-up pass would be needed before this area has a listing.
Brampton
Two businesses are listed here, both boarding kennels that also take cats: Allenwood Kennels, trading since 1986 and holding a 3-star Cumberland Council licence, and Moorfield Boarding Kennels and Cattery, run by Ian Graham and Gill Wright with over 30 years in the trade and a 5-star licence from the same council.
Penrith
Three businesses are listed here: Cumbria Dog Training and Home Boarding, a home boarder run by Janet Ardley with a 3-star Westmorland and Furness Council licence; Woof Terrain Dog Services, another home boarder, holding a 5-star licence from the same council; and Berrier Boarders, a small kennels run on a family farm near Greystoke, licensed at 3 stars.
Wigton & Silloth
Three businesses are listed here: Fingland Pet Hotel and Biggards Kennels, both boarding kennels, and Solway Dog Walkers & Home Boarding, a home boarder run by Andrea and Mark. All three state a licence number and issuing council on their own site, but none could be matched to a current council register during this research, since Cumberland Council does not publish one for this former Allerdale area; ask any of them to see their licence certificate directly rather than relying on a website's own claim.
Cockermouth & Keswick
One business is listed here: Hairy Hound Hotel, a boarding kennels near Keswick with 12 individual heated rooms, some looking out towards Blencathra. It is licensed by Westmorland and Furness Council at 3 stars, current to January 2027, despite sitting in a postcode area usually associated with Cumberland Council — a boundary quirk of the 2023 council reorganisation rather than an error.