Home boarding or kennels in Macclesfield, Wilmslow and Congleton?
Of the seventeen dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses listed across Macclesfield, Wilmslow & Alderley Edge, Poynton & Bramhall and Congleton, ten are home boarders, licensed to keep dogs in their own house: Rookery Retreat, Liz's Pet Solutions and Tiny Paws Pet Services in Macclesfield; Woof Squad, Barking Mad Stockport and Penny's Pooches in Poynton & Bramhall; The Woofpack Wilmslow and Barking Mad Wilmslow & South Manchester in Wilmslow & Alderley Edge; and Hounddog Hotel and Katie's K9s in Congleton. The other seven run boarding kennels from a dedicated site instead: Windyway Kennels & Cattery in Macclesfield; Coppice Boarding Kennels & Cattery and Birch Hall Boarding Kennels & Cattery in Poynton & Bramhall; Newgate Kennels & Cattery and Studholme Kennels & Cattery in Wilmslow & Alderley Edge; and Country Kennels and Grove House Boarding Kennels in Congleton.
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 and more dogs on site at once than a home boarder would take. Newgate Kennels & Cattery has run from the same family across a 16-acre site in Wilmslow since 1948, combining dog and cat boarding with a grooming salon. Coppice Boarding Kennels & Cattery, in Higher Poynton, runs 24-hour staff attendance with a vet on call across a 5-acre site. Grove House Boarding Kennels, on a 250-acre farm near Congleton, has capacity for up to 27 dogs in indoor, underfloor-heated kennels.
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 or family at a time; the address is given once you book, not published here. Liz's Pet Solutions has offered home boarding in Macclesfield since 2009, with no cages or kennels used and boarders walked off-lead in local woodland. Barking Mad Stockport and Barking Mad Wilmslow & South Manchester are two separate franchise territories of the same national brand, each matching dogs with an approved host family rather than boarding them at one fixed site. Hounddog Hotel, in the Congleton area, has traded since 2014 and takes up to five dogs at a time.
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 kennels environment 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: both Cheshire East Council and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council license 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 how each is licensed and rated.