Home boarding or kennels in Peterborough?
Of the 19 dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses listed for Peterborough, eleven are home boarders, licensed to keep dogs in their own house rather than a purpose-built kennels, and five run boarding kennels from a fixed site. The remaining three — Doggy Paws, Green Wheel Dogs and All About Your Dog Day Care — run day care only, from their own premises, without offering either kind of overnight stay.
What a boarding kennels gives you
A boarding kennels means your dog has its own kennel and run on a site built for it, with set feeding and exercise times and more than one household's dogs on site at once. Peterborough's five kennels are Little Acre Boarding Kennels & Cattery in Turves (capacity up to 120 dogs and 50 cats), Partridge Farm Boarding Kennels near Whittlesey (around thirty acres, up to fifty dogs and ten cats, with an in-house grooming parlour), and Riverside Boarding Kennels in Coates (up to twenty-five dogs), all in the Whittlesey area, plus Dixans Boarding Kennels & Cattery in Chesterton, near Yaxley, trading from the same site since 1986, and Amblewood Kennels & Cattery near Peterborough, which also runs a heated day-care barn on four acres.
What a home boarder gives you
A home boarder means your dog lives in somebody's house instead, usually alongside only one household's own dogs at a time; the address is given once you book, not published here. Peterborough's eleven home boarders are Barkingham Palace and Uncle Geoffrey's Vizsla Boarding in the Whittlesey area, FurBuddy Pet Services and Woodies Walkies in the Yaxley area, Dixon's Dog Sitters and Top Dog Boarding in Peterborough itself, Dogs Delight Boarding and Day Care in the Orton area, and four local branches of national home-boarding franchises — We Love Pets, Wagging Tails, Barking Mad and Your Pet's Paradise — each of which matches your dog to an individually licensed host family rather than boarding at one address itself.
Which suits your dog
A kennels tends to suit a dog that is happy with its own space and a set routine, and there is often more room left during a busy school-holiday week simply because a kennels takes more dogs at once. A home boarder tends to suit a dog that finds a group of strange dogs stressful, or one used to living in a house rather than a run; Uncle Geoffrey's Vizsla Boarding is a further example of a home boarder specialising in a single breed, taking only Hungarian Vizslas. Neither type is licensed to a higher standard than the other by default: all three of Peterborough's licensing councils license boarding kennels and home boarding under the same regulations, so asking to see the certificate is the same question either way.
Franchise branches: one booking, an individual host
Four of Peterborough's eleven home boarders are local branches of a national franchise rather than a single independent operator: We Love Pets, Wagging Tails, Barking Mad and Your Pet's Paradise all cover Peterborough alongside neighbouring towns such as Stamford and The Deepings, matching your dog to a host family who is separately licensed by their own council. Ask a franchise branch who the actual host will be and where they are based, since the branch itself is a booking and matching service rather than the place your dog will actually stay.