Home boarding or kennels in Chester?
Chester's eleven listed boarders, day cares and kennels split three ways: three board dogs in the boarder's own home, six run a boarding kennels premises, and two offer day care only, with no overnight stay at all.
Home boarding
Digs for Dogs (Chester) covers the Chester city centre area, Waggy-tails covers Mold & Buckley, and Aunty Vikki's Pet Services covers Flint & Holywell. 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
Oakfield Farm Boarding Kennels covers Hoole & Boughton; Ty Gwyn Pets covers Mold & Buckley; Calcot Kennels and Cattery covers Flint & Holywell; Wynnestay Kennels & Cattery and Glenbrittle Kennels both cover Neston & Heswall; and Warren Wood Kennels and Cattery covers Handbridge & Lache. A kennels usually has room for more dogs at once, set feeding and exercise times, and staff on site rather than one family; four of these six — Ty Gwyn Pets, Calcot, Wynnestay and Warren Wood — also board cats.
What the premises look like
A boarding kennels premises varies a good deal in Chester: Oakfield Farm Boarding Kennels has underfloor-heated indoor kennels and access to 44 hectares of farmland for walks; Glenbrittle Kennels has heated kennels and an on-site hydrotherapy pool; and Warren Wood Kennels and Cattery gives dogs three exercise sessions a day. Ask to see where your dog will actually sleep and exercise, rather than relying on a general description.
Day care only
All Creatures (Doggie Day Care), in the Chester city centre area, and Canine Capers of Chester, in Handbridge & Lache, 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.
Privacy and premises
A boarding kennels is a business premises in the ordinary sense, so a street or village name can appear 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, whatever the business itself publishes 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.