How Coventry's council licenses dog boarders
Two councils license the 29 dog boarders, day cares and kennels listed for Coventry. Coventry City Council covers Coventry city centre, Earlsdon, Radford & Keresley, Tile Hill and Binley, plus one Kenilworth-based day-care licence; Warwick District Council covers the other three Kenilworth businesses on this page. In England, home boarding, day care and boarding kennels are all licensed activities under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018, and it is the relevant council that issues and renews the licence for each one, whatever type of business it is.
How the register works here
Coventry City Council publishes its own plain register of licensed home boarders, giving a trading name, the licence holder's real name, home area and phone number — it is the only council register found across this whole site that publishes a phone directly. That register covers home boarders and The Dog Den – Day Care, but not the town's five premises kennels, which apply through a separate commercial process with no published list of their own. For licence numbers, expiry dates and the Warwick District Council businesses in Kenilworth, this site reads animal-licensing.uk, a third-party mirror of both councils' register data, since that mirror carries fields the councils' own pages don't.
Why you won't see a star score on this page
England's licensing regulations allow for a 1-to-5 star inspection score as part of the licence, and both Coventry City Council and Warwick District Council do assess one. This directory shows a council star score only where it can read it directly from a council's own register, and for Coventry and Kenilworth that figure sits only on the animal-licensing.uk mirror rather than on either council's own page, so no star score is shown for any of the 29 businesses listed here. That is a limit of the source used here, not a claim that these businesses have no star score at all, and it is a different thing entirely from any customer rating.
Two licences the register doesn't fully confirm
House of Dixie appears on Coventry City Council's own register but not on the animal-licensing.uk mirror at all, so it is shown as licensed without a licence number or expiry date attached. Jo's Pawsome Adventures appears on both sources, but the licence date the register gave had already passed when it was checked, so no expiry claim is shown for it either. Neither gap is a sign anything is wrong with the licence itself — it is a limit of what the two sources happened to publish on the day this page was checked, so ask either business directly about its current licence status.
What to check yourself
You can look up a trading name on Coventry City Council's own register or the Warwick District Council mirror to confirm a licence and its type. For a star score or an address, ask the business directly for its licence number and check it against the relevant council's own licensing team.
Coventry's unlicensed category: premises kennels
Coventry's five boarding kennels — Harvest Hill, Rock Farm, Fox Covert Boarding Kennels and Cattery, West View and Meriroyles Luxury Boarding Kennels — apply for a licence through a form the council does not publish as a list, so none of the five carries a licence block on this page. That is a gap in what the council publishes here, not proof either way about whether a given kennels holds a current licence, so ask each one directly for its licence number and which council issued it.