Home boarding or kennels in Nottingham?
Of the 26 dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses listed for Nottingham, 21 are individually licensed home boarders and one, Pampered Pets (Boarding) Ltd, runs a boarding kennels and cattery. The remaining four run day care or general pet care from a fixed, non-home site rather than either a home boarder's house or a purpose-built kennels.
What a home boarder gives you
A home boarder means your dog lives in somebody's house instead of a kennel block, usually alongside only one household's own dogs at a time; the address is given once you book, not published here. Nottingham's 21 home boarders are spread across all eight areas covered by this page, from Nottingham Pet Care and Aunt Sal's Dog Boarding in the Nottingham centre area to Pooches and Pawsome Lisa in Hucknall. Aunt Sal's Dog Boarding describes itself as kennel-free, which is the kind of framing worth asking a home boarder to explain in practice, since the term itself isn't defined by any licence.
What a boarding kennels gives you
Pampered Pets (Boarding) Ltd, on Lambley Lane in Gedling, is the only boarding kennels among the 26: a purpose-built site with its own cattery, trading for more than 40 years according to its own site and licensed by Gedling Borough Council for both dog and cat boarding.
Neither one: dedicated day care
Cuddles-A-Plenty in Bulwell, Ruffles Doggy Daycare in Mapperley and Build a Bond in West Bridgford each run a dedicated day-care site rather than a home or a kennels, all three licensed by Nottingham City Council specifically for day care. Nottingham Pet Services, in Carlton, also trades from a fixed premises rather than a private home, offering day care and pet boarding, but this project could not match it to a council register at all.
Which suits your dog
A home boarder tends to suit a dog that finds a kennels environment or a large group stressful, or one that is used to living in a house; Colwick Frolics, for example, offers two daily walks and garden access as part of its home boarding. A boarding kennels tends to suit a dog that is happy with its own space and a set routine, and there is often more room at a kennels during a busy week simply because it takes more dogs at once than any one home boarder does. Neither type is licensed to a higher standard than the other by default: home boarding and boarding kennels sit under the same national regulations, so asking to see the current certificate is the same question either way.
One business, two names
B's Wings Pet Services also trades as Happy Hounds Hotel from the same address and phone number; it is worth checking that a name you find online and a name on a council register are the same business before assuming they are two separate options.