How to choose dog boarding or day care in Kidderminster and Stourport

Nine dog boarders, day cares and kennels are listed for Kidderminster and Stourport. Six run boarding kennels, one runs day care and grooming from a fixed site, and two are home boarders whose address is given only once you book. Most sit in or near Kidderminster itself; Bewdley has one and Cleobury Mortimer has two, while Stourport-on-Severn currently has none. Which type suits your dog depends on how much space it is used to and how it copes with kennel life versus a house full of other dogs.

Boarding kennels, home boarding or day care

Deansford Kennels and Dunclent Kennels and Cattery both run boarding kennels on farm sites near Harvington and Stone, just outside Kidderminster, and both also take cats; Deansford's licence covers home boarding and cat boarding alongside its kennels, and Dunclent has been on its site for over 30 years. Station House Boarding Kennels runs kennels on Station Road in Kidderminster itself, with space for 20 dogs. Bewdley Boarding Kennels, at Ribbesford, also runs a cattery and brings in grooming and dog walking through two associated services on the same site. Wild Meadow Boarding Kennels and Hopton Boarding Kennels both sit near Cleobury Mortimer, though their DY14 postcodes are administratively in Shropshire rather than Wyre Forest; Wild Meadow currently says it cannot take new customers this year. We Love Pets Kidderminster & Stourbridge and Combat Canine Dog Services both offer home boarding, where your dog stays in the boarder's own house; neither publishes an address here, since a home boarder's address is only given once you book, and both are shown under the Kidderminster area rather than a specific street. K9 Leisure Club, on Worcester Road in Kidderminster, is the only listed business built around day care rather than overnight stays, and adds hydrotherapy, including an underwater treadmill and a swimming pool, alongside grooming.

Stourport-on-Severn and the home boarders not shown here

Stourport-on-Severn has no published business of its own: the one home boarder found there in research did not have a confirmed phone number, so it is not listed. The same is true of nine other home boarders found on Wyre Forest District Council's licence register across this whole area, none of which could be reached through a working website, phone number or readable social page; they are not named here, since a listing with no way to contact the business is not useful to a reader. If you are in Stourport, expect a short drive to Kidderminster or Bewdley for a listed boarder or kennels, and ask a home boarder you find elsewhere to show you their current council licence.

The council licence position in this area

Wyre Forest District Council covers Kidderminster, Bewdley and Stourport-on-Severn, and its animal activity licensing register is run on its behalf by Worcestershire Regulatory Services. That register gave a full licence number, expiry date and star rating for Deansford Kennels, Dunclent Kennels and Cattery, We Love Pets Kidderminster & Stourbridge, Combat Canine Dog Services and Bewdley Boarding Kennels. K9 Leisure Club quotes a Wyre Forest-format licence number on its own site that did not appear in the register extract checked here, so no licence details are shown for it. Station House Boarding Kennels' own site refers to a licence page that returned an error on this check, so no licence detail is shown for it either. Wild Meadow Boarding Kennels and Hopton Boarding Kennels are licensed by Shropshire Council instead, because their addresses sit just inside that county; Shropshire Council's own online register could not be read on this check, so neither carries a licence panel here, even though both state on their own sites that they hold a licence. No second pass of either register has been made since; treat what is shown here as the position on the date each listing was checked, not a live feed.

Questions worth asking

None of these are things this directory can answer on a business's behalf; put them to the business directly before you book.

• Can I see your current council licence certificate, and what star rating and expiry date does it show?
• What vaccinations do you require, and how long before the stay do you need to see proof of them?
• Do you have a policy on kennel cough, and what is it?
• Do you have any breed restrictions or conditions, including for an XL Bully with a valid exemption certificate?
• Are you insured, and can you show evidence of current cover?
• How many other dogs will be boarding or in day care at the same time as mine?
• If my dog is a home boarder's guest, how many dogs from other households will be in the house at once?

See our Kidderminster and Stourport prices guide for what the one business that publishes a price actually charges.