Dog boarding and day care in Taunton and Somerset, area by area

Taunton and Somerset's five areas are spread across a wide, rural county, and this directory's eight dog boarding, day-care and home-boarding businesses sit unevenly across them. The Taunton area holds half of the eight; two areas currently have none at all.

The five areas follow postcode districts rather than exact boundaries: Taunton covers TA1 and TA2, Wellington covers TA21, Glastonbury & Street covers BA6 and BA16, Frome & Shepton Mallet covers BA4 and BA11, and Minehead & Burnham-on-Sea covers TA24 and TA8. Somerset is a large, rural county, so these five areas sit well apart from each other rather than forming one continuous town.

Taunton

Taunton's four businesses are Bark Place Dogs, a home boarder that also grooms; E S Pet Care, a home boarder offering dog training and cat sitting alongside boarding; and two franchises that match dogs with a network of hosts across the wider area, Barking Mad Taunton and Animals at Home Taunton & South Somerset.

Frome & Shepton Mallet

This area's three businesses are Hylands Dog Care, a home boarder near Shepton Mallet; LittleDogs (or not so Little Dogs), which runs day care and social boarding from a farm at East Pennard; and Animals at Home Mendip & Bristol West, a franchise covering Shepton Mallet, Wells, Glastonbury, Bruton, Frome and Street.

Minehead & Burnham-on-Sea

Steart Dog Lodge, at Steart Farm near Minehead, is the only listed business in this area: a cage-free boarding kennels where dogs are kept together rather than in individual runs.

Wellington and Glastonbury & Street

No business is currently listed for either Wellington or Glastonbury & Street. This is a genuine gap in what could be found and confirmed with a working phone number, not a sign that nothing operates in either place; Somerset Council's own register cannot be read online (see our council licences guide), and the county-wide mirror this directory could use instead gives no address for any entry, so a licensed business based in either area may simply not have been placeable with confidence. If you are near either town, it is worth asking neighbours or a local vet for a recommendation as well as checking here.

Why Taunton itself is the strongest area

All four of the Taunton area's businesses have a confirmed phone number and could be placed with reasonable confidence, partly because two of them, Barking Mad Taunton and Animals at Home Taunton & South Somerset, are national franchises with their own dedicated local pages naming the town directly. That kind of clear, findable local presence is harder to come by for a sole trader working alone from a village, which is part of why the more rural areas on this page carry fewer listings.

How these areas were worked out

An area shown here follows the postcode district a business's own site, Facebook page or third-party listing places it in, since Somerset's own licence mirror gives no address to work from directly. 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.