Home boarding or kennels in Fareham and Gosport?
Overnight boarding across Fareham, Gosport, Wickham & Southwick and Bishop's Waltham comes in two different shapes: a home boarder, who takes your dog into their own house, or a boarding kennels, where dogs stay in individual runs or pens on a dedicated site. Of the eighteen businesses on this page offering overnight stays, fourteen are home boarders and four run boarding kennels. CB Canine Care, Fareham's Dog Day Care Ltd and Elite Canine Services offer day care only, with no overnight stay at all, so they sit outside this comparison.
Home boarding
Fourteen home boarders are listed here: 4 Muddy Paws and Just Like Home in Fareham; Kelly's Pet Care in Gosport, also covering Lee-on-the-Solent, Stubbington and Titchfield; Posh Paws in Wickham & Southwick; and ten more across Bishop's Waltham and its surrounding villages — Bishops Waltham Pet Services, Daves Pet Care, Tina's Pet Care, Primrose Dog Care in Shedfield, Wickham Walkies and Happy Days Animal Care in Durley, Oak Villa Boarding and Daycare and Phoenix Trained Dogs Ltd, Hampshire Dog Care and Durley Grooming Parlour. Licensed capacity is generally small: Daves Pet Care and Durley Grooming Parlour are each capped at two dogs at a time, and most of the rest at three to five. Licensed capacity among these fourteen is generally small: Winchester City Council's register caps most of its home boarders at two to five dogs at a time, and Posh Paws specifically at five. As with any home boarder, only the area and town are shown on each listing here, never a street address.
Boarding kennels
Four boarding kennels are listed here. Lone Valley Kennels Ltd, in Fareham, is licensed for up to 50 dogs and run by Karen and Jim Walsh with over 30 years of dog experience. RSPCA Solent Branch (The Stubbington Ark) runs its kennels in Fareham alongside its rescue and rehoming work. Harfields Pet Retreat, in the Bishop's Waltham area, is licensed for up to 68 dogs, and Three Oaks Boarding Kennels for up to 78, plus a separate licence for stray, rescue and welfare dogs and cats. See our council licences guide for the star rating behind each Winchester-licensed listing.
Which suits your dog
A nervous dog, or one used to a lot of one-to-one attention, may settle better with a home boarder than in a kennel block, while a dog that copes well away from a family home, or an owner who wants a fixed, staffed site with set hours, may prefer purpose-built kennels such as Lone Valley Kennels Ltd or Three Oaks Boarding Kennels. Ask either type of business how it introduces a new dog to its routine and how many other dogs will be there during your dates, and see our first stay guide for what a trial visit usually covers.