Day care or boarding in Huddersfield?
Day care and overnight boarding solve different problems, and several of Huddersfield's businesses offer both. Of the nine boarders, day cares and kennels listed here, five list day care or day boarding among their services: Crosland Paws, The Dog Den and Wavy Tails in Almondbury & Newsome, Khay's Paws in Holmfirth, and Glambullz Boarding, also in Holmfirth.
When day care fits
Day care suits a dog that would otherwise be alone through a working day rather than one that needs to stay overnight. The Dog Den, in Almondbury & Newsome, publishes a day-care price of GBP25, with day care running 07:30 to 18:30 daily. Glambullz Boarding, near Meltham in the Holmfirth area, prices its day boarding separately from overnight stays, at GBP15 a day, from a nine-acre site rather than a house.
When overnight boarding fits
Four businesses here take dogs overnight without listing day care among their services: Relax & Paws in Lindley & Birkby, and Chester's House and Gardens, Petwatch and Walkies & Purrfect Mews Cat Hotel, all in the Almondbury & Newsome or Holmfirth areas. All four are home boarders rather than a kennels, so a dog moving in overnight joins a household rather than a purpose-built block.
The ones that offer both
Crosland Paws and Wavy Tails, both in Almondbury & Newsome, and Khay's Paws in Holmfirth are all licensed home boarders that also list day care among their services, so a dog could move between a day visit and a full overnight stay with the same business. Glambullz Boarding is unusual here in offering kennel boarding, day boarding and a separate home boarding service side by side from the same operation near Meltham.
Ask which one you actually need
If you are not sure whether your dog needs a day or a night away, describe your situation directly: how long the dog will be away from you, whether it has been left with strangers before, and whether it needs medication or has any anxiety around other dogs. A kennels stay and a day at a day-care business are licensed the same way by Kirklees Council, so this is also worth raising as part of checking a business's licence.
Cats alongside dogs
Two of the businesses here also board cats alongside dogs: Petwatch runs a purpose-built cattery with 12 standard pens and 2 family pens next to its home dog boarding, and Walkies & Purrfect Mews Cat Hotel combines home dog boarding with a cattery trading online as Purrfect Mews Cat Hotel. If you need cover for more than one type of pet at the same time, ask directly whether a business can take both under one booking rather than assuming a dog-only business will.
Where each type sits
Day care and day boarding here are concentrated in Almondbury & Newsome and Holmfirth; the two areas with no listed business at all, Huddersfield town centre and Brighouse & Elland, currently have neither service confirmed. See our area-by-area guide for the full breakdown of where Huddersfield's nine listed businesses actually are.