Day care or boarding in Coventry?
Day care and overnight boarding solve different problems, and several of the businesses listed for Coventry offer both, so the choice isn't always between two separate businesses. Of the 29 dog boarders, day cares and kennels on this page, twelve list day care among their services: Christopher James Pet Care, Go Out Paws, Happy Hounds Coventry, Pawsies, Park Your Pawz, Pawfectdayz, Paws and Claws Boarding Coventry, The Dog Den – Day Care, Kingswood Small Dog Home Boarding and Day Care, Rosie and Friends Pet Services, Little Paws Kenilworth and Paws and Claws Care.
When day care fits
Day care suits a dog that would otherwise be alone through a working day rather than one that needs to stay overnight. The Dog Den – Day Care, in Kenilworth, holds a day-care-only licence for up to twenty-five dogs and shares its phone number and operators with The Holidog Inn, a separate overnight home-boarding licence run by the same two people. The other eleven day-care providers listed here also offer home boarding, so a dog can move between a day visit and an overnight stay without changing business if needed.
When overnight boarding fits
The other seventeen businesses on this page offer home boarding or kennel boarding without day care as a separate service. Five run purpose-built boarding kennels — Harvest Hill, Rock Farm, Fox Covert Boarding Kennels and Cattery, West View and Meriroyles Luxury Boarding Kennels, all in or near Radford & Keresley — and the remaining twelve are home boarders taking a dog into their own house for one or more nights, including A Home from Home, Dee's Dog Sitting and GMan Walks in Radford and Binley. See the companion guide on home boarding or kennels for what separates the two.
Ask which one you actually need
If you are not sure whether your dog needs a day or a night away, describe your situation to the business directly: how long the dog will be away from you, whether it has been left with strangers before, and whether it needs medication or has any anxiety around other dogs. Go Out Paws, which offers puppy socialisation alongside its day care and home boarding, is worth asking about specifically if your dog is young and has not stayed away from home before.
Published day-care prices
Two of the twelve day-care providers publish a price: Christopher James Pet Care charges £30 for a weekday or weekend day, with a £12 rate for a second dog from the same household, and Go Out Paws splits its day care into a £21 half day and a £37 full day. See our prices guide for the full table and what everyone else charges once you ask.
Cats and other pets
Fox Covert Boarding Kennels and Cattery, in Radford & Keresley, boards cats alongside dogs; none of the other 28 businesses listed for Coventry mentions taking cats or other pets. If you need cover for more than one type of pet at the same time, ask Fox Covert directly whether it can take both under one booking.