Day care or boarding in Mansfield and Ashfield?
Day care and overnight boarding solve different problems, and Mansfield and Ashfield's eight listed businesses mostly offer some mix of the two rather than one alone.
Day care
Six of the eight hold a day-care service: Mansfield Canine Centre, on Hermitage Lane in Mansfield, is licensed for day care only and runs an online booking system alongside its main site. Dalton K9 Academy and Prodigy K9, both home boarders and trainers in the Sutton-in-Ashfield and Kirkby-in-Ashfield area, offer day care alongside training and home boarding. We Love Pets Mansfield, the local franchise in the same area, lists doggy day care among its services. K9 Playtime, in Rainworth and Blidworth, runs day care and home boarding from a 1.5-acre field with an indoor play area. Country Woofs, in the Ollerton and Edwinstowe area, also combines day care with home boarding.
Overnight boarding
Five of the six day-care businesses above also board overnight in the boarder's own home; Mansfield Canine Centre is day care only, with no overnight licence recorded. The two remaining businesses run boarding kennels with no separate day-care licence: Coxmoor House Kennels & Cattery, near Kirkby-in-Ashfield, which also boards cats, and Kingstand Lodge Kennels & Cattery, near Budby in the Ollerton and Edwinstowe area, which also boards cats and offers dog grooming.
Add-on services
Several of Mansfield and Ashfield's businesses combine boarding or day care with something else. Dalton K9 Academy and Prodigy K9 both centre their business on dog training, including residential board-and-train programmes. We Love Pets Mansfield also offers dog walking, pop-in pet sitting, house sitting and cat sitting. Coxmoor House Kennels & Cattery and Kingstand Lodge Kennels & Cattery both keep a cattery alongside their dog kennels, and Kingstand Lodge also offers dog grooming, as does Country Woofs.
Which one you actually need
If you are not sure whether your dog needs a day visit or a full stay, describe your situation directly when you call: how long the dog will be away from you, whether it has stayed with strangers before, and whether it needs medication or has any anxiety around other dogs or being left alone. See our home boarding or kennels guide for the difference between staying in somebody's house and staying in a purpose-built kennels, which matters as much as the day-versus-night choice.
Combining day care and overnight in one place
Five of Mansfield and Ashfield's businesses offer both a day visit and an overnight home-boarding stay: Dalton K9 Academy, Prodigy K9, We Love Pets Mansfield, K9 Playtime and Country Woofs. A dog could move between an occasional day visit and a full overnight stay without changing business, which is worth asking about if you are not yet sure which one you will need.
If you need overnight boarding in Mansfield itself
Mansfield's only listed business, Mansfield Canine Centre, does not offer overnight boarding, so anyone in Mansfield needing a full stay rather than a day visit will need to look to Sutton-in-Ashfield and Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Rainworth and Blidworth, or the Ollerton and Edwinstowe area instead.