Day care or boarding in Peterborough?
Day care and overnight boarding solve different problems, and several of the businesses listed for Peterborough offer both, so the choice is not always between two separate businesses. Of the 19 dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses on this page, eight list day care among their services: Amblewood Kennels & Cattery, Doggy Paws, Dixon's Dog Sitters, We Love Pets Peterborough, All About Your Dog Day Care, Dogs Delight Boarding and Day Care, Green Wheel Dogs and Uncle Geoffrey's Vizsla Boarding.
When day care fits
Day care suits a dog that would otherwise be alone through a working day rather than one that needs to stay overnight. Doggy Paws, running from a 3.5-acre fenced field near Peterborough since 2008, and Green Wheel Dogs in Whittlesey are the two here that run day care as their main service rather than an add-on to boarding; All About Your Dog Day Care, in Orton Southgate, is a third, though its spaces run tight, with a waiting list mid-week and openings usually only on Monday and Friday.
When overnight boarding fits
The other 11 businesses on this page offer overnight or home boarding without day care as a separate service: four run boarding kennels — Little Acre, Partridge Farm and Riverside in the Whittlesey area, and Dixans in the Yaxley area — and the rest are home boarders taking a dog into their own house for one or more nights, including three of Peterborough's four local franchise branches. See the companion guide on home boarding or kennels for what separates the two.
A breed-specific day care
Uncle Geoffrey's Vizsla Boarding, a home boarder in the Whittlesey area, is the one business here to combine day care with a breed specialism, taking only Hungarian Vizslas for both overnight boarding at £60 a night and day care at £40 a day. If your dog is the right breed, that combination is worth asking about directly rather than defaulting to a general kennels.
Ask which one you actually need
If you are not sure whether your dog needs a day or a night away, describe your situation to the business directly: how long the dog will be away from you, whether it has been left with strangers before, and whether it needs medication or has any anxiety around other dogs. Dixon's Dog Sitters, which offers both overnight boarding and day care in Peterborough, only takes dogs it describes as well-socialised, which is worth raising early if that is a concern for yours.
Cats and other pets
Several of Peterborough's kennels double as a cattery: Little Acre and Partridge Farm in the Whittlesey area, Dixans in the Yaxley area, and Amblewood near Peterborough all board cats alongside dogs. If you have more than one type of pet needing cover at the same time, ask directly whether a business can take both under one booking rather than assuming a dog-only business will.