Home boarding or kennels in Horsham?
Of the fifteen dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses listed for Horsham and Billingshurst, ten are home boarders, licensed to keep dogs in their own house: Little Rowfold, Benji's K9 Holidays and Day Care, Cottage Farm Dog Training & Boarding, Harry's Hounds and Paws Aplenty Pet Care in the Billingshurst and Pulborough area; Fine & Dandy Pet Services and Sussex Home Dog Boarding near Southwater; and Horsham Pet Care, We Love Pets Crawley and Doggie Rambles Horsham in Horsham itself. Three run purpose-built boarding kennels instead: Bluebell Countryside Kennels near Southwater, Penny Paws Kennels near Henfield and Springfield Dog Boarding Kennels at Colgate. The remaining two, Club K9 and Daily Dog Digs, run day care only, from a dedicated site rather than either a home or a kennels block.
What a boarding kennels gives you
A boarding kennels means your dog has its own space on a site built for the purpose, with set feeding and exercise routines and potentially more dogs on site at once than a home boarder would take. Penny Paws Kennels, near Henfield, has nine individual kennels with heated winter housing and paddling pools in summer, and publishes prices from £35 a night. Springfield Dog Boarding Kennels, at Colgate, is licensed for up to 15 dogs. Bluebell Countryside Kennels, near Southwater, has no independent website, so its phone number and details come from the council's own register rather than a page it controls.
What a home boarder gives you
A home boarder means your dog lives in somebody's house instead, usually alongside far fewer other dogs at a time than a kennels; the street address is given once you book, not published here. Cottage Farm Dog Training & Boarding and Harry's Hounds both add 1-2-1 or 1:1 training alongside boarding. We Love Pets Crawley is the local branch of a franchise, licensed within the Horsham district despite the branch being named for Crawley, covering the RH10, RH11 and RH12 postcodes, and caps its group walks at four dogs. Doggie Rambles Horsham builds its boarding and day care around countryside walks, and charges a fuel surcharge beyond two miles of its base rather than a fixed rate.
The day-care-only premises
Club K9, near Rusper, and Daily Dog Digs, also near Rusper, both run day care from a purpose-built site rather than boarding dogs overnight in the same way a kennels or home boarder does, though Club K9 also offers "luxury boarding" as a separate overnight option.
Which suits your dog
A kennels tends to suit a dog that is comfortable with its own space and a set routine; a home boarder tends to suit a dog that finds a kennels environment stressful, or one that is used to living in a house. Neither type is licensed to a higher standard than the other by default: Horsham District Council licenses both kennels and home boarding under the same regulations, so asking to see the certificate is the same question either way. See our council licences guide for the star rating confirmed for each of the fifteen.