Home boarding or kennels in Stockport?
Of the fourteen dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses listed for Stockport, seven hold a licence for home boarding, six hold a licence for boarding in kennels, and one, Doggo Daycare Centre, is licensed for day care only with no overnight licence recorded against it.
What a boarding kennels gives you
A boarding kennels means your dog has its own space on a site built for it, with set feeding and exercise times. Stockport's six kennels licences are held by Riverside Country Kennels & Cattery and Castle Croft Boarding Kennels & Cattery, both in the Reddish & Marple area and both also boarding cats; Daisy Bank Boarding Kennels in the Cheadle & Gatley area, which could not be matched to a specific register entry this round; and Mount View Kennels and Cattery Ltd, Clare Kennels and Higher Brookhouse Kennels, all in or near the Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith & Whaley Bridge area. Mount View and Clare Kennels both also take other pets alongside dogs.
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. Stockport's seven home boarders are Shannon K9 Control and Aussie Dog Care in Reddish & Marple; Cheadle Pet Care in Cheadle & Gatley, currently not taking new dog home-boarding clients; and Just Dogs, Oakfields Dog Boarding, Paws and Whiskers Pet Care and Whitehouse Walkies, in or near the Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith & Whaley Bridge and New Mills & Hayfield areas. Shannon K9 Control, run by a former police dog handler, only takes one dog at a time rather than running a group kennel.
Day care only, with no overnight licence
Doggo Daycare Centre, in New Mills, is licensed for day care only, running from an industrial-estate unit with a dedicated soft-play area for dogs, and requires new dogs to go through an assessment before they can join. Just Dogs, one of the home boarders listed above, also holds a separate day-care licence at the same Buxton-area address, so it is worth asking any business here directly which of its licences covers the type of stay you actually need.
Which suits your dog
A kennels tends to suit a dog that is happy with its own space and a set routine; a home boarder tends to suit a dog that finds a group of strange dogs stressful, or one that is used to living in a house rather than a run. Neither type is licensed to a higher standard than the other by default: home boarding and boarding kennels sit under the same 2018 regulations, just as different categories, so asking to see the certificate is the same question either way. See our council licences guide for what each council's register actually shows.
Where each type sits
Stockport's home boarders, kennels and day-care sites are not evenly spread across its five areas: Reddish & Marple has two home boarders and two kennels, Cheadle & Gatley has one home boarder and one kennels, Glossop & Hadfield has one kennels only, Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith & Whaley Bridge has three home boarders and two kennels, and New Mills & Hayfield has one home boarder and one day-care-only site. See our area-by-area guide for the full breakdown.