How to choose dog boarding or day care in Stockport
Fourteen dog boarders, day cares and kennels are listed for Stockport, split across two different councils: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, covering the Reddish & Marple and Cheadle & Gatley areas, and High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, covering Glossop & Hadfield, Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith & Whaley Bridge, and New Mills & Hayfield. Seven of the fourteen are home boarders, six run boarding kennels and one runs day care from a dedicated site (Just Dogs, a home boarder in the Buxton area, also holds a separate day-care licence). New Mills & Hayfield is the thinnest area, with only two listed businesses; the council register itself names a third licensed home boarder there with no confirmed phone number, so ask about wider Stockport-area options if you need more choice nearby.
Home boarding, day care or kennels
Seven businesses board dogs in the boarder's own home: Shannon K9 Control and Aussie Dog Care in Reddish & Marple; Cheadle Pet Care in Cheadle & Gatley (currently not taking new dog-boarding clients); Just Dogs, Oakfields Dog Boarding and Paws and Whiskers Pet Care in the Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith & Whaley Bridge area; and Whitehouse Walkies in New Mills & Hayfield. A home boarder usually takes far fewer dogs at a time than a kennels, so ask how many other dogs will be in the house during your dates and whether they are all from one family or several. Six businesses run boarding kennels: Riverside Country Kennels & Cattery and Castle Croft Boarding Kennels & Cattery in Reddish & Marple, Daisy Bank Boarding Kennels in Cheadle & Gatley, and Mount View Kennels and Cattery, Clare Kennels and Higher Brookhouse Kennels in the Buxton area. Doggo Daycare Centre, in New Mills, is the only business here licensed purely for day care, from an industrial-estate unit rather than a home.
What the council licence means here
Every dog boarder, home boarder and day care needs a council licence in England, and Stockport is covered by two different councils depending on area. Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council's own register, an online licensing portal, gives a licence number and expiry date for each business but does not publish a star rating for any of them, even where a business's own website quotes one. High Peak Borough Council's licences are recorded here from the animal-licensing.uk mirror of its register, which does carry a star rating for some entries; because that mirror is not the council's own site, and High Peak has not adopted it as an official register, star ratings from it are not shown on these listings, only the licence number and expiry where the register gives them. Daisy Bank Boarding Kennels could not be matched to a specific entry on Stockport's register in the wards checked this round, so no licence details are shown for it; ask to see a current licence when you call.
Questions worth asking
- 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?
- Are you insured, and can you show evidence of current cover?
- How many other dogs, and from how many households, will be there during my dates?
- What happens if my dog needs a vet while in your care?
None of the businesses listed here publish a vaccination schedule or a stated insurance position beyond what appears on their own licence or website, so these are questions to put to the business directly, not answers this directory can give on its behalf. See our Stockport prices guide for what the two businesses that publish a price charge.