How Guildford's council licenses dog boarders
All ten dog boarders and day cares listed for Guildford, Godalming and Cranleigh hold a current council licence, a legal requirement in England rather than a discretionary badge. Which council issued it, and how much its register shows, depends on where the business sits.
Guildford Borough Council
Three businesses in Guildford town centre — Hound and About, Paws4aWalk and Simone's Doggy Creche — are licensed by Guildford Borough Council. The council's own animal-licensing page does not itself carry a register table; the working public source found for this batch is the animal-licensing.uk platform, which lists Guildford Borough Council's licence holders by name, category and full address, but does not show a licence number or expiry date for these three listings. Guildford Borough Council's own site has not been confirmed as treating that platform as its official register the way Colchester City Council does, so no star rating is shown here for any Guildford-licensed business, even where a rating appears on the aggregator.
Waverley Borough Council
Seven businesses — Croft Doggy Daycare, We Love Pets Cranleigh, Doggy Digs Cranleigh, Tazmanian Tails, Burntwood Kennels, K9 Development Centre and Surrey and Sussex Dog Trainer — sit in Godalming or Cranleigh, both licensed by Waverley Borough Council. Waverley publishes its own register as a periodically-republished PDF (the copy used for this directory is dated 30 October 2025), grouped by licence category, giving a business name, licence number and star rating, but no address or expiry date, which is why every Waverley-licensed business here had to be placed in its area by name rather than by a listed postcode.
Star ratings across the ten listings
| Business | Council | Star rating |
|---|---|---|
| Hound and About | Guildford Borough Council | Not shown on the register |
| Paws4aWalk | Guildford Borough Council | Not shown on the register |
| Simone's Doggy Creche | Guildford Borough Council | Not shown on the register |
| Croft Doggy Daycare | Waverley Borough Council | 4 stars |
| We Love Pets Cranleigh | Waverley Borough Council | 5 stars |
| Doggy Digs Cranleigh | Waverley Borough Council | 5 stars |
| Tazmanian Tails | Waverley Borough Council | 5 stars |
| Burntwood Kennels | Waverley Borough Council | 5 stars |
| K9 Development Centre | Waverley Borough Council | 5 stars |
| Surrey and Sussex Dog Trainer | Waverley Borough Council | 4 stars |
What the rating does and doesn't tell you
Where a star rating is shown, it is the council's own inspection score, tied to how often the licence is reinspected, and is not a customer review — treat it the way you would a food hygiene rating rather than a Google star. The three Guildford-licensed businesses showing no rating here are not necessarily lower-scoring; the gap is in what this directory could confirm from Guildford Borough Council's own published sources, not a mark against any of the three. Ask any business for its licence number and check it yourself against the relevant council's register before booking; see our vaccinations and licences guide for further questions worth asking.