Dog boarding and day care in Stockport, area by area

Stockport's five areas span two counties and two councils, and the fourteen dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses in this directory sit unevenly across them.

The five areas follow postcode districts rather than exact boundaries: Reddish & Marple covers SK5 and SK6, Cheadle & Gatley covers SK8, Glossop & Hadfield covers SK13, Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith & Whaley Bridge covers SK17 and SK23, and New Mills & Hayfield covers SK22. The first two sit inside Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council; the last three sit inside High Peak Borough Council, in Derbyshire, a different county and a different licensing authority entirely.

Reddish & Marple

This is Stockport's best-covered area, with four businesses: Riverside Country Kennels & Cattery, a family-run kennels near the M60 trading for more than 60 years; Castle Croft Boarding Kennels & Cattery, in Bredbury, which also boards small animals and birds; and two home boarders, Shannon K9 Control and Aussie Dog Care.

Cheadle & Gatley

Two businesses are listed here: Cheadle Pet Care, a home boarder currently not taking new dog home-boarding clients, and Daisy Bank Boarding Kennels, a boarding kennels that could not be matched to a specific entry on Stockport's own register in the wards checked this round.

Glossop & Hadfield

Mount View Kennels and Cattery Ltd, at Mount View Farm in Higher Chisworth, is the only listed business in this area, taking bookings by phone only.

Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith & Whaley Bridge

This area has the most listed businesses, five: Clare Kennels and Higher Brookhouse Kennels run boarding kennels, and Just Dogs, Oakfields Dog Boarding and Paws and Whiskers Pet Care all board dogs in their own homes. Just Dogs also holds a separate day-care licence at the same address.

New Mills & Hayfield

Two businesses are listed here: Doggo Daycare Centre, licensed for day care only from an industrial-estate unit, and Whitehouse Walkies, a home boarder in Hayfield trading as Hounds of Hayfield. This is the smallest of Stockport's five areas by number of listings; the underlying council register names at least one further licensed home boarder here with no confirmed phone number, so it is worth asking neighbours or a local vet for a recommendation as well as checking here if you need more choice nearby.

How these areas were worked out

An area shown here follows the postcode district a business's own site or its council register entry places it in. Every business shown also has a confirmed phone number, so the counts above only include businesses that could actually be reached, not every name found in research. Reddish & Marple and Cheadle & Gatley sit under Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council's own licensing register, which lists more home boarders across its wards than could be independently matched to a trading name and a working phone number; the counts above are therefore a floor on genuine local supply, not a full census of every licensed operator.