Home boarding or kennels in Kettering, Corby and Wellingborough?
Of the fifteen dog day-care, boarding-kennels and home-boarding businesses listed across Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough and the surrounding towns, six hold a licence for home boarding, eight run boarding kennels, and one, Cloverleaf Canine Centre, is licensed for day care only with no overnight licence recorded against it.
What a boarding kennels gives you
A boarding kennels means your dog has its own space on a site built for it, with set feeding and exercise times. Eight of this page's businesses run kennels: Low Farm Dog Kennels and Cattery and The Settle Kennels and Cattery near Wellingborough; Denford Edge Boarding Kennels and Highlands Country Kennels and Cattery around Oundle & Thrapston; Four Seasons Boarding Kennels & Cattery in Raunds; Dog Days Inn in Kettering; Harkers Barkers between Kettering and Corby; and Wooden House Kennels near Market Harborough. Four of these also board cats.
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; the address is given once you book, not published here. Kettering, Corby and Wellingborough's six home boarders are Country Companions Pet Services in the Rushden & Higham Ferrers area, and five around Market Harborough: The Dog Club, Out and About Dog Walking, Paws 4 Walking and Porter's Paw Patrol, all boarding dogs in their own home, and Barking Mad Market Harborough, which instead matches your dog with a vetted host family from its own network for the stay.
Day care only, with no overnight licence
Cloverleaf Canine Centre, in Corby, is licensed for day care only, run by Olwen Turns since 2012 alongside dog training, grooming, walking and microchipping. It is the only business on this page with no overnight boarding option at all.
Which suits your dog
A kennels tends to suit a dog that is happy with its own space and a set routine; a home boarder tends to suit a dog that finds a group of strange dogs stressful, or one that is used to living in a house rather than a run. Neither type is licensed to a higher standard than the other by default: home boarding and boarding kennels sit under the same 2018 regulations in England, just as different categories, so asking to see the certificate is the same question either way. See our council licences guide for what each register shows, including the two businesses whose own licence claim could not be matched to it.
Where each type sits
Kennels and home boarding are not evenly spread across this page's eight areas: Wellingborough and Oundle & Thrapston each have two kennels and no home boarders; Corby has one kennels (Harkers Barkers) and one day-care-only business (Cloverleaf Canine Centre); Kettering town centre has one day-care centre with a home-boarding option (Dog Days Inn); Irthlingborough & Raunds has one kennels (Four Seasons Boarding Kennels & Cattery); Rushden & Higham Ferrers has one home boarder (Country Companions Pet Services); Market Harborough has one kennels (Wooden House Kennels) and five home boarders; and Desborough & Rothwell has no listed business of either kind. See our area-by-area guide for the full breakdown.