Day care or boarding in Gloucester?

Day care and overnight boarding solve different problems, and it is worth deciding which one you need before ringing round Gloucester's nineteen listed businesses. Day care is a booked day, with your dog dropped off and collected the same day; overnight boarding, whether in a house or a kennels, means your dog staying somewhere else while you are away.

Who offers which, by the numbers

Nine of Gloucester's nineteen businesses describe some form of day care in their own words, including Regorlien & K9 Walkabouts, Barkeley Barks, Special Friends Retreat for Dogs, Paw Paws Doggy Daycare & Boarding, BJ's Pet Resort & Spa, Linds Furry Friends, House Of Paws, Happy Hounds Boarding and Daycare and DFor Day Care. Only two, Paw Paws Doggy Daycare & Boarding and Linds Furry Friends, use the specific phrase "boarding" for an overnight stay in the way this site's overnight-boarding category counts it; most overnight capacity in Gloucester instead comes through home boarding or a dedicated kennels rather than that exact wording. See our day care and overnight boarding service pages for how these categories are counted across the whole site.

Day care only, no overnight stay

Barkeley Barks runs day care only, not overnight boarding, on Bristol Road in Quedgeley, grouping dogs by energy and play style and running occasional events such as Halloween parties and summer splash days; every new dog completes a free half-day trial first. DFor Day Care, on a private farm estate near Tewkesbury, also runs day care only, with off-lead exercise in a fenced orchard and small, hand-selected playmate groups, describing itself as covering Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and Winchcombe rather than Tewkesbury alone. If a single working day is all you need, either is worth a call; for an overnight stay, look instead at the home boarders and kennels covered in our home boarding or kennels guide.

Businesses that do both

Several Gloucester businesses combine day care with overnight stays under one roof: Special Friends Retreat for Dogs offers day care, dog walking and home-from-home overnight boarding from Quedgeley, with a published price of £25 for day care and £30 per 24 hours of boarding; House Of Paws and Happy Hounds Boarding and Daycare both list day care and home boarding together; and BJ's Pet Resort & Spa, a purpose-built site in Churchdown with a dog swimming pool and agility centre, includes grooming with an overnight stay as well as running day care.

What to ask either way

• Is this a booked day, or can my dog stay overnight if I need that later?
• What are your collection and drop-off times, and are they fixed or flexible?
• How many other dogs will be there at the same time as mine?

Whichever you choose, see our vaccinations, licences and what to ask guide before you book.