Home boarding or kennels in Newcastle?
Fourteen of Newcastle's nineteen listed businesses are home boarders, licensed to board dogs in the operator's own house; the other five run a boarding kennels or a dedicated day-care premises. The two activities are licensed separately in England, and neither is simply a cheaper or smaller version of the other: they suit different dogs.
Home boarding
A home boarder usually takes far fewer dogs at a time than a kennels, so your dog gets somebody's house, garden and routine rather than a kennel run. Newcastle's home boarders are PetStay Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside & South Northumberland (newcastle-centre), We Love Pets Newcastle (Jesmond & Heaton), TynePets (Gosforth), Small Paws Pet Services, Pillows & Paws, I Love Pugs Boarding and Kate's Coastal Dog Care (all Wallsend & North Shields), Pets, Homes and Gardens - Whitley Bay, Furry Towers, Sam's Dog Boarding & Pet Services of Whitley Bay, Purrfect 4 Pets and Hounds Haven (all Whitley Bay & Tynemouth), and Petsercise and Barking Mad Newcastle & Tyne Valley (both Blaydon & Ryton). Because a home boarder's licence is issued to a person at an address, this directory names their area and town only, not a street. See our home boarding service page for how it works generally.
Boarding kennels and day-care premises
Two businesses run purpose-built boarding kennels, both in Whitley Bay & Tynemouth: Whitley Bay Boarding Kennels & Cattery, which also boards cats, and Peter & Paul's Dog Boarding. Three more run day care from a dedicated site rather than a home: Nic's Stay and Play Doggy Daycare & Grooming Pawlour (Byker & Walker), Canine Camp (Wallsend & North Shields) and The Doggy Day Care Centre - Whitley Bay. A kennels or day-care premises generally has more capacity than a home boarder, so is more often able to fit in a last-minute booking. See our boarding kennels service page for more on how kennels generally work.
Which suits your dog
A dog that settles well in a family home may do better with home boarding; a dog that is boisterous with strangers, or whose owner would rather it was kept apart from a family's own pets, may do better in a kennels or day-care premises. Ask either kind of business how many other dogs will be there during your dates, and, for a home boarder, whether any are from a different household to yours and how the dogs are kept apart.
A note on licensing
Seventeen of these nineteen businesses sit under North Tyneside or Gateshead councils, both of which keep some form of public register; the remaining two, TynePets and Nic's Stay and Play Doggy Daycare & Grooming Pawlour, are licensed by Newcastle City Council, which publishes none at all, so their licence details here are self-reported rather than register-confirmed.
See our council licences and star ratings guide for the full picture.