Dog boarding and day care in Harrogate, area by area

Harrogate's dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding page covers a wide stretch of North Yorkshire, from the town itself out to Ripon, Malton, Pickering, Thirsk, Northallerton, Easingwold and Boroughbridge. The twenty-four listed businesses are fairly evenly spread across four of the five areas, with one thinner spot.

Every one of the five areas has at least two listed businesses, which is not the case on every town this site covers; even the thinnest area here, Malton & Pickering, has two confirmed, phone-verified listings rather than none.

Harrogate town centre & Knaresborough

This area's six businesses are Harlow Kennels & Cattery and Mucky Paws Boarding Kennels, both combined dog-and-cat kennels; Petties Paws, a family-run kennels at Fewston offering day care alongside boarding; and three home boarders, FlowerDown, The Walkabout Company and Maddie's Retreat, the last based in Knaresborough itself.

Ripon & Pateley Bridge

Four kennels sit closer to Ripon — Sutton Grange Boarding Kennels, Wilderbrook Kennels & Secret Garden Cattery, Brackenfarg Kennels and Moor View Kennels & Cattery, the last actually above Bewerley near Pateley Bridge — alongside one home boarder, Harry & Co. Canine Solutions in Ripon, and one day-care-only business, Tatty & Tilly's, on five acres near Pateley Bridge with its own Harrogate collection bus.

Malton & Pickering

This area's two businesses are both home boarders: Cutters Canines & Equines, near Pickering, run by a canine and equine behaviourist, and Paws 4 Walkies, based in Malton. No kennels or dedicated day-care site is currently listed for this area, which may reflect a genuine gap rather than one nothing operates here at all; anyone in Malton or Pickering may want to ask locally as well as checking here.

Thirsk & Northallerton

Three of this area's four businesses run day care only, with no overnight boarding: CenterBarks Dog Daycare at Sowerby, DogSmith of Thirsk at Dalton, and Just For Dogs Day Care in Northallerton. Romanby Kennels, on the edge of Northallerton, is the area's one boarding kennels, open 8am to 8pm seven days a week.

Easingwold & Boroughbridge

Four kennels serve this area — Abbotsway Kennels, Low Shires Boarding Kennels, Derrings Kennels and Studforth Kennels, the last actually nearer Boroughbridge at Cundall — alongside two home boarders, The Easingwold Waggy Dog Walker and Dog Tired, both covering Easingwold and its surrounding villages.

How these areas were worked out

Postcode district HG3 overlaps both the Harrogate town centre & Knaresborough and Ripon & Pateley Bridge areas on this page, so each HG3 business shown above was placed by its real village rather than the postcode alone. Every business shown also has a confirmed phone number, so the counts above only include businesses that could actually be reached, not every licensed name found in research.