How to choose dog boarding or day care in Coventry
Twenty-nine dog boarders, day cares and kennels are listed for Coventry, across six areas from the city centre out to Kenilworth. Twenty-three are licensed home boarders, one (The Dog Den) holds a separate day-care-only licence, and six run from a dedicated kennels site rather than someone's home. What matters most when choosing depends on which of these you need and where in Coventry you are looking.
Home boarding, day care or kennels
Twenty-three of the businesses listed board dogs in the boarder's own home: among them A Home from Home, House of Dixie, Pawsies, Paws and Claws Boarding Coventry, Peace of Mind Dog Boarding and Kingswood Small Dog Home Boarding and Day Care in Radford & Keresley; Christopher James Pet Care, Dee's Dog Sitting, GMan Walks, Jo's Pawsome Adventures and Pawsative Choices in Binley; Go Out Paws, Happy Hounds Coventry, Out of The Dog House, Park Your Pawz, The Holidog Inn and Go Fetch in Earlsdon, Chapelfields & Allesley; K9 Divine and Rosie and Friends Pet Services in the city centre; Cosy Home Dog Boarding, Little Paws Kenilworth and Paws and Claws Care in Kenilworth; and Pawfectdayz, the one business currently listed for Tile Hill, Canley & Cannon Park. The Dog Den is a separate day-care-only licence held by the same operators as The Holidog Inn. The remaining five — Harvest Hill Kennels, Rock Farm Boarding Kennels, Fox Covert Boarding Kennels and Cattery, West View Kennels and Meriroyles Luxury Boarding Kennels, all in or near Radford & Keresley — run purpose-built kennels rather than a home; Fox Covert also boards cats. A home boarder usually takes far fewer dogs at a time than a kennels, so ask how many other dogs will be in the house during your dates, and whether they are from one family or several.
What the council licence tells you, and what it doesn't
Twenty-six of the twenty-nine businesses are licensed by Coventry City Council, which covers every area here except Kenilworth; Coventry publishes its own plain register of home boarders alongside the animal-licensing.uk mirror used to cross-check star ratings and expiry dates. The three Kenilworth businesses — Cosy Home Dog Boarding, Little Paws Kenilworth and Paws and Claws Care — are licensed instead by Warwick District Council, whose licences were checked on the same animal-licensing.uk platform. Where a star rating is shown it runs from 1 to 5 and is the council's own inspection score, not a customer review, so treat it like a food hygiene rating rather than a Google star. Coventry's licensing system does not publish an online list for its separate premises-kennels category, which is why Harvest Hill Kennels, Rock Farm Boarding Kennels, Fox Covert Boarding Kennels and Cattery, West View Kennels and Meriroyles Luxury Boarding Kennels — all found through search rather than a register — carry no licence block on their listings here. That is a gap in what the council publishes, not proof either way about whether these five hold a current licence, so ask each one directly for its licence number and which council issued it.
Questions worth asking before you book
None of these are things this directory can answer on a business's behalf; they are worth putting to the business directly.
- What vaccinations do you require, and how long before the stay do you need to see proof of them?
- Do you have a policy on kennel cough, and what is it?
- Do you have any breed restrictions or conditions, including for an XL Bully with a valid exemption certificate?
- How many other dogs, and from how many households, will be there during my dates?
- How is medication given during a stay, and is there an extra charge for it?
- What happens if my dog needs a vet while in your care?
- Are you insured, and can you show evidence of current cover?
None of the businesses listed here publish a vaccination schedule or a stated insurance position beyond what appears on a licence register, so ask rather than assume an answer either way. See our Coventry prices guide for what the two businesses that publish a price actually charge, and what to ask everyone else.