Day care or boarding in Fareham and Gosport?
Day care and overnight boarding solve two different problems, and this page's twenty-one listed businesses sit mostly on the boarding side: seven offer day care, eighteen offer overnight boarding, and four offer both.
Day care: for a working day, not a holiday
Day care is for a dog that would otherwise be alone through a working day: it goes in after breakfast and comes home at teatime rather than staying overnight. Seven businesses on this page offer it: 4 Muddy Paws, CB Canine Care and Fareham's Dog Day Care Ltd in Fareham; Just Like Home, also in Fareham; Kelly's Pet Care, which covers Gosport, Fareham, Lee-on-the-Solent, Stubbington and Titchfield; and Elite Canine Services and Oak Villa Boarding and Daycare, both in Shedfield within the Bishop's Waltham area. Three of these — CB Canine Care, Fareham's Dog Day Care Ltd and Elite Canine Services — offer day care only, with no overnight boarding at all, so they are the ones to check first if day care specifically is what you need.
Overnight boarding: kennels or a home
Overnight boarding means your dog stays away from home for one or more nights, either in purpose-built kennels or in a home boarder's own house. Eighteen businesses on this page offer it. Four run from a fixed kennels site: Lone Valley Kennels Ltd and RSPCA Solent Branch (The Stubbington Ark) in Fareham, and Harfields Pet Retreat and Three Oaks Boarding Kennels in Bishop's Waltham, the last of which also takes cats and stray or welfare dogs under a separate licence. The other fourteen board dogs in the boarder's own home, spread across Fareham (4 Muddy Paws, Just Like Home), Gosport (Kelly's Pet Care), Wickham & Southwick (Posh Paws) and Bishop's Waltham, where ten more are licensed, mostly capped at two to five dogs at a time. See our home boarding or kennels guide for how those two compare.
Which to choose
If your dog needs looking after during a working day and will sleep at home every night, CB Canine Care, Fareham's Dog Day Care Ltd and Elite Canine Services run day care as their only service, while 4 Muddy Paws, Just Like Home, Kelly's Pet Care and Oak Villa Boarding and Daycare offer day care alongside overnight boarding. If you are going away and need overnight cover, choose between the four fixed kennels sites or one of the fourteen home boarders. Only 4 Muddy Paws publishes a price, including a £10 trial stay; see our prices guide for what it charges and what to ask everyone else. Whichever you choose, ask about a trial visit first; see our first stay guide for what to expect, and see our area-by-area guide for what is listed closest to you.