Day care or boarding in Newcastle?
Day care and overnight boarding are two different services often lumped together under "dog boarding." Day care is a booked day: your dog goes in after breakfast and comes home at teatime, suiting a dog that would otherwise be alone through a working day. Overnight boarding is your dog staying the night, in either a home or a kennels, whether for one night or a fortnight, and the two are usually priced differently even from the same business. Of Newcastle's nineteen listed businesses, ten list day care and the rest are boarding-only or offer both, so the choice is often about which service you book from a given business, rather than which business you choose in the first place.
Day care in Newcastle
Businesses listing day care include We Love Pets Newcastle, Nic's Stay and Play Doggy Daycare & Grooming Pawlour, Small Paws Pet Services, Pillows & Paws, Canine Camp, Kate's Coastal Dog Care, Sam's Dog Boarding & Pet Services of Whitley Bay, The Doggy Day Care Centre - Whitley Bay, Purrfect 4 Pets and Petsercise. See our day care service page for how it works generally, across every town on this site.
Overnight boarding in Newcastle
Two businesses run boarding kennels for overnight stays away from anyone's home: Whitley Bay Boarding Kennels & Cattery, which also boards cats, and Peter & Paul's Dog Boarding, both in Whitley Bay & Tynemouth. Overnight stays in somebody's own house are covered in our home boarding or kennels guide. See our overnight boarding service page for how kennels and home boarding compare generally.
Trying day care first
Several of these businesses let you book a single day of day care before committing to an overnight stay, a practical way to see how your dog settles before booking further ahead. We Love Pets Newcastle, Small Paws Pet Services, Pillows & Paws, Kate's Coastal Dog Care, Sam's Dog Boarding & Pet Services of Whitley Bay, Purrfect 4 Pets and Petsercise all combine day care with home boarding, so a day visit there can double as the settling-in visit our first stay guide recommends.
Which to book
A dog that settles well in somebody's family home, or would find a kennel run stressful, often suits day care or home boarding better; a dog that is boisterous around strangers, or one whose owner would rather it was kept apart from a family's own pets, may do better in a kennels. Several businesses above offer more than one service, so ask which they would recommend once they have met your dog.
Whichever you choose, ask the same core questions before you book: see our vaccinations, licences and what to ask guide, and check our prices guide for what a few of them charge before you decide between them.