Day care or boarding in Rotherham?
Day care and overnight boarding solve different problems, and several of Rotherham's businesses offer both. Of the eleven boarders, day cares and kennels listed here, six list day care among their services: We Love Pets Rotherham, Wath Kennels, Paws Express, Jaycliffe Pets, Play, Paws, Repeat and Animals at Home Rotherham.
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. Wath Kennels, on Station Road in Wath-upon-Dearne, publishes a day-care price of GBP15, run alongside its kennels, cattery, grooming and pet shop on one site. Paws Express prices four hours of day care at GBP20 as part of a home-based operation that also offers dog walking and overnight home boarding.
When overnight boarding fits
Five businesses here take dogs overnight without listing day care among their services: Old Flatts Farm, Netherlands Boarding Kennels, Vale Boarding Kennels, Clayton Lane Boarding Kennels and Sandy Lane Kennels & Cattery. All five run from a fixed kennels site rather than a home, and Vale and Sandy Lane also take cats.
The ones that offer both
We Love Pets Rotherham, Jaycliffe Pets, Play, Paws, Repeat and Animals at Home Rotherham all combine overnight boarding with day care in one business. Jaycliffe Pets is the most combined of the eleven, running boarding kennels, a cattery, day care, grooming and hydrotherapy from one site in Thurcroft, open 365 days a year. We Love Pets Rotherham and Animals at Home Rotherham are both local franchise branches that add pet sitting and house sitting alongside boarding and day care.
Ask which one you actually need
If you are not sure whether your dog needs a day or a night away, describe your situation 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. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council licenses both kinds of activity, though its licences cannot be checked on a public register, so this is also worth raising alongside asking to see a business's certificate.
Cats alongside dogs
Four of the businesses here also board cats alongside dogs: Vale Boarding Kennels, Wath Kennels, Jaycliffe Pets and Sandy Lane Kennels & Cattery all take cats as well as dogs, and We Love Pets Rotherham and Animals at Home Rotherham both offer cat sitting or feeding visits alongside dog services. If you need cover for more than one type of pet at the same time, ask directly whether a business can take both under one booking.
Where each type sits
Day care here is spread across four of Rotherham's five areas, missing only Wath & Swinton; overnight-only kennels sit mainly in Rotherham north and Maltby & Wickersley. See our area-by-area guide for the full breakdown of where Rotherham's eleven listed businesses actually are.