Home boarding or kennels in Norwich?
Of the 13 dog boarders, day cares and kennels listed for Norwich, 9 work from the boarder's own home and 1, Lime Liegh Boarding Kennels & Cattery in Wymondham, runs purpose-built kennels. The remaining 3 — Poocheria Pet Care Services, DOGJOGS and Arthur's Doggo Daycare — run day care only, from a home, and don't offer an overnight stay of either kind.
Home boarding
A home boarder takes your dog into their own house, usually alongside their own family and any dogs of their own, rather than dogs from several households kennelled separately. Because it's somebody's home, we show a home boarder's area and town only, never a full address — the exact address is normally given once you've booked. Norwich's nine home boarders are spread across most of the town's areas: Petpals Norwich and We Love Pets Norwich cover the city centre and a wide ring of suburbs as multi-area franchises; Buffy's Buddies and Sallys Dogs R Us are in the Costessey area; Viv & Chris @ Feathers and Norfolk Home Boarding for Dogs are in the Hellesdon area; K9 Keepers is in the Wymondham area; Barking Mad Norwich, a host-family franchise, also covers the Hellesdon area; and Irene's K9 Care is in the Thorpe St Andrew area.
Boarding kennels
A boarding kennel is purpose-built premises with individual runs and set feeding and exercise times, run as a business rather than a household, and generally able to take more dogs at once than a single home boarder can. Lime Liegh Boarding Kennels & Cattery, in the Wymondham area, is the only one listed for Norwich, and also takes cats and offers on-site hydrotherapy.
Which suits your dog
A dog that settles well as part of a family and around other household dogs often does better with a home boarder. A dog that prefers its own space, or needs a strict feeding and exercise routine, may suit purpose-built kennels better. Ask each business how many dogs are on site at once, and whether your dog will have company or be alone for parts of the day, rather than assuming from the type of business alone. See how home boarding works and how boarding kennels work across the site.
Booking ahead
With only one kennels business listed for the whole town, and most home boarders taking on a handful of dogs at a time, Norwich's supply is genuinely tight around school holidays — it's worth asking early rather than assuming a place will be free close to the date. Few of Norwich's businesses of either kind publish a price list online; where one is published, it's set out in the prices guide. Whichever type you choose, ask the same core questions about licensing and vaccinations set out in our what to ask guide, since neither a home boarder nor a kennels business here can be checked against a council register.