Home boarding or kennels in Coventry?
Of the 29 dog boarders, day cares and kennels listed for Coventry, 23 are licensed home boarders, five run purpose-built boarding kennels, and one, The Dog Den – Day Care in Kenilworth, holds a day-care-only licence rather than either of the two.
What a boarding kennels gives you
A boarding kennels means your dog has its own kennel and run on a site built for it, with set feeding and exercise times and more than one household's dogs on site at once. Coventry's five kennels are all in or near Radford & Keresley: Harvest Hill Kennels, a family-run site in its fourth generation offering pet taxi, dog training and puppy introduction sessions; Rock Farm Boarding Kennels, near Corley Services on the M6; Fox Covert Boarding Kennels and Cattery, near Withybrook, which also boards cats; West View Kennels, in Corley; and Meriroyles Luxury Boarding Kennels, a purpose-built, climate-controlled site near Meriden with four full-time staff.
What a home boarder gives you
A home boarder means your dog lives in somebody's house instead, usually alongside only one household's own dogs at a time; the address is given once you book, not published here. Coventry's 23 home boarders are spread across every other area on this page: 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; K9 Divine and Rosie and Friends Pet Services in the city centre; Pawfectdayz in Tile Hill; and Cosy Home Dog Boarding, Little Paws Kenilworth and Paws and Claws Care in Kenilworth.
Which suits your dog
A kennels tends to suit a dog that is happy with its own space and a set routine, and there is often more room left during a busy school-holiday week simply because a kennels takes more dogs at once. A home boarder tends to suit a dog that finds a group of strange dogs stressful, or one that is used to living in a house rather than a run. Neither type is licensed to a higher standard than the other by default: home boarding and boarding kennels are both licensed activities under the same England-wide regulations, and asking to see the certificate is the same question either way, though Coventry's own register currently only publishes a list for home boarders, not for the town's kennels.
Specialist care
Kingswood Small Dog Home Boarding and Day Care, in Radford & Keresley, focuses on small and medium dogs. If your dog is a specific size that you think needs particular handling, a specialist may suit better than a general home boarder or kennels, but ask what that specialism means in practice for that business.