How to choose dog boarding or day care in Nuneaton, Bedworth and Atherstone
Nine dog boarders, day cares and kennels are listed for Nuneaton, Bedworth and Atherstone, spread across four areas: four in Nuneaton, two in Market Bosworth, three in Atherstone & Grendon, and none currently in Bedworth & Bulkington with a confirmed phone number. Three are home boarders, five hold a day-care licence type and four run boarding kennels, with some businesses covering more than one type. What matters most when choosing depends on which of the three you need.
Home boarding, day care or kennels
Three businesses board dogs in the boarder's own home rather than a kennel block: Woof and Whiskers in Nuneaton, and Animals at Home (North Warwickshire) and Out With Hound, both covering the Atherstone area. As home boarders, all three are shown here by area and town only; the exact address is given once you book. Pet Sitting Nuneaton and Dexter's Doggy Daycare run day care without overnight boarding, the former as a mobile, home-based service covering several Nuneaton suburbs and the latter from private land near Nuneaton. Glebe Farm Boarding Kennels & Cattery, Cofastre Pets Hotel, Castle Farm Boarding Kennels and Witherley Boarding Kennels & Cattery run boarding kennels for overnight stays; Cofastre also holds a day-care licence type alongside its boarding kennels, and Witherley and Glebe Farm both also take cats.
No public licence register in these three council areas
Every one of these nine businesses needs a licence to operate. Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council, Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council and North Warwickshire Borough Council between them cover the whole area, and all three license dog boarding, home boarding and day care. None of the three, however, publishes a public register, PDF or search tool that lets a reader check a licence, a star rating or an expiry date online; all three describe their licensing regime on their own pages but stop there. A few of these businesses state on their own site or Facebook page that they hold a licence, or quote a star rating themselves, but none of this could be checked against a register, so no licence number or star is shown on any listing here. Ask to see the current licence certificate and its star rating when you call, rather than taking a website's word for it, and if in doubt, ring the relevant council directly to ask whether a business is currently licensed.
Bedworth & Bulkington
No business with a confirmed phone number is currently listed for Bedworth & Bulkington. Two boarding kennels turned up in research for the area, but neither had a phone number that could be verified against the business's own site, so neither is published here. If you are in Bedworth or Bulkington, the nearest listed businesses are a short drive away in Nuneaton.
Questions worth asking
- Can I see your current council licence certificate and its star rating?
- What vaccinations do you require, and how long before the stay do you need to see proof of them?
- Do you have a policy on kennel cough, and what is it?
- Do you have any breed restrictions or conditions, including for an XL Bully with a valid exemption certificate?
- How many other dogs, and from how many households, will be there during my dates?
- How is medication given during a stay, and is there an extra charge for it?
- What happens if my dog needs a vet while it is in your care?
None of these are things this directory can answer on a business's behalf, since none of the three councils publishes a register to check them against; they are worth putting to the business directly before you book. See our Nuneaton prices guide for what four of these nine businesses publish.