Home boarding or kennels in Leicester?
Of the thirty businesses listed for Leicester, thirteen are home boarders, licensed to keep dogs in their own house rather than on a purpose-built site, and five run boarding kennels. One of the five, The Grange Boarding Kennels, holds licences for both a kennels and a home-boarding operation on the same site. The remaining thirteen run day care, dog walking or a boarding service described in another way, without either of these two exact licence types recorded for them.
What a boarding kennels gives you
A boarding kennels means your dog has its own kennel and run on a site built for it, with set feeding and exercise times and more than one household's dogs on site at once. Leicester's five are Riverside Boarding Kennels on Middleton Street in Aylestone, The Grange Boarding Kennels in Whetstone near Wigston (licensed for both an 8-dog and a 40-dog capacity), Debdale Grange near Smeeton Westerby and Gumley (also a cattery), High Barn Farm Kennels & Cattery on a farm site in Queniborough (family-run for more than thirty years, also grooming and training), and Wooden House Kennels at Wooden House Farm in Braybrooke.
What a home boarder gives you
A home boarder means your dog lives in somebody's house instead, usually alongside only one household's own dogs at a time; the address is given once you book, not published here. Leicester's thirteen home boarders are spread across the town: Furry Friends Pet Care Services in the Glen Parva area, WAGS, Muddy Paws Dog Walking Services and Take The Lead in Oadby, Happy Boarders, Lauras Leads, Walk In The Park and The Grange Boarding Kennels in Wigston, Minezara Home Boarding Services in Glenfield, Charnwood Collar Club and E&P Pet Care in Syston, and Barking Mad Market Harborough and Yappy Tails Dog Services near Market Harborough.
Which suits your dog
A kennels tends to suit a dog that is happy with its own space and a set routine, and there is often more room left during a busy school-holiday week simply because a kennels takes more dogs at once. 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. Barking Mad Market Harborough works differently again: rather than boarding at one fixed site, it arranges a placement with an approved host family, so ask how that matching process works if you're considering it.
Neither is licensed to a higher standard
Whichever of the six councils covering Leicester issued it, a licence for either type is assessed against the same broad standards for space, exercise and record-keeping, and asking to see the certificate is the same question either way. Star ratings do vary business to business, though; see the companion council-licences guide for how each register shows this.