How to choose dog boarding or day care in Sutton Coldfield

Twelve dog boarders, day cares and kennels are listed here, split across four areas: Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks & Streetly, Walmley & Minworth, and Erdington. Four board dogs in the carer's own home rather than a kennel (Boldmere Home Dog Boarding and PetStay – West Midlands North & South Staffordshire in Sutton Coldfield, Walk & Wagg in Four Oaks & Streetly, and The Paw Club in Walmley & Minworth). Four run day care from a dedicated site (Wags Dog Day Care Ltd and Pawpounders Doggy Day Care in Four Oaks & Streetly, and Bark Doggy Daycare and Fetch Doggy Day Care in Walmley & Minworth). Three run boarding kennels (Nine Stones Boarding Kennels and Curdworth Kennels in Walmley & Minworth, and Old Barn Kennels in Four Oaks & Streetly), and one, Erdington Pet Centre, is a pet shop with an on-site kennel and is the only listing in Erdington itself.

Home boarding, day care or kennels

A home boarder usually takes far fewer dogs at a time than a kennel and puts your dog in a household rather than a purpose-built run, so ask how many other dogs will be in the house on your dates and whether they are all from one family. PetStay works differently again: it is a network that matches your dog with one of several local carers rather than boarding at one fixed address, so ask which carer you would actually be booked with. Day care is a daytime-only booking, useful if a dog would otherwise be alone during a working day; Wags Dog Day Care Ltd and Pawpounders Doggy Day Care both run from multi-acre sites rather than a house, while Bark Doggy Daycare and Fetch Doggy Day Care are smaller, single-site operations. A boarding kennel suits a dog that would rather have its own space than share a strange family's home, and tends to have more room left over the school holidays.

The council licence in this area

Most of this page sits inside Birmingham City Council's licensing area, and five of the twelve businesses – Boldmere Home Dog Boarding, PetStay, Wags Dog Day Care Ltd, Walk & Wagg and Bark Doggy Daycare – carry a current licence on Birmingham's public register, shown here with a licence number and an expiry date; the star rating that register's animal-licensing.uk mirror shows is not published here, because it could not be read from a council-run register. Three more businesses (Fetch Doggy Day Care, Nine Stones Boarding Kennels and Curdworth Kennels) trade from Curdworth, and The Paw Club, a home boarder in the same Walmley & Minworth area, falls under the same authority: Curdworth sits inside this page's postcode area but is administratively part of Warwickshire, licensed by North Warwickshire Borough Council rather than Birmingham. That council's website no longer publishes a current register: the only licence evidence found for these four is an archived 2023 licensing list, so no licence block is shown for them here and their listings say plainly that the 2023 list showed a licence and that the council no longer publishes one to check it against. Ask any of these four directly to see their current licence certificate. Erdington is thinner still: the one register entry the borough held for that area expired in May 2026, and the sole Erdington listing on this page, Erdington Pet Centre, does not appear on Birmingham's register at all – ask it directly what, if any, licence covers its kennel.

Questions worth asking before you book

None of these are things this directory can answer on a business's behalf; put them to the business directly.

• 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 is medication given during a stay, and is there an extra charge for it?
• What happens if my dog needs a vet while in your care?
• For the four Curdworth businesses, can I see your current licence, since the council's own public list is from 2023?

See our Sutton Coldfield prices guide for what the two businesses that publish a rate actually charge.