Home boarding or kennels in Telford?
Of the twelve dog boarding, day-care and kennels businesses listed for Telford, six are home boarders, licensed to keep dogs in their own house: The Dog Nanny Shropshire, Hayden's Home Dog Boarding and Wagging Tails Ironbridge in the Madeley & Ironbridge area; Train Me & My Dog and Pets Au Pair in the Market Drayton & Whitchurch area; and Wrickton Hall Dog Boarding in the Bridgnorth area. Five run boarding kennels from a dedicated premises, and one, We Love Pets Telford, is a franchise branch that works through a network of hosts rather than either a single home or a kennels site.
What a boarding kennels gives you
A boarding kennels means your dog has its own space at a purpose-built site, with more dogs on the premises at once than a single household would take. Cottage Boarding Kennels and Cattery, near Redhill, is licensed for up to 50 dogs and 35 cats; Chetwynd Firs, near Newport, for up to 100 dogs and 90 cats; Hound Hall, in Market Drayton, offers themed en-suite rooms that can be connected together for dogs from the same household; and Acorn Kennels and Primchurch Kennels and Cattery, both near Whitchurch, are run by the same team under a shared contact number.
What a home boarder gives you instead
A home boarder means your dog lives in somebody's house, usually alongside far fewer other dogs at a time than a kennels would take; the address is given once you book, not published here. Hayden's Home Dog Boarding, run by a married couple with a fully fenced garden, and Wagging Tails Ironbridge, licensed for up to nine dogs for boarding and 35 for day care, both sit in the Madeley & Ironbridge area. Pets Au Pair, trading since 2008, offers a collection and delivery service by vehicle alongside home boarding in individual rooms with secure gardens.
The franchise branch
We Love Pets Telford does not fit neatly into either category: it covers Telford, Oakengates and several nearby areas through a network of vetted hosts rather than one fixed address, and no matching entry was found for it on the Telford & Wrekin Council licence register at the time of research. Ask this branch directly which host your dog would actually stay with, and about its licensing arrangements, before booking.
Which suits your dog
A kennels tends to suit a dog that is happy with its own space and a set routine among more dogs at once; a home boarder tends to suit a dog that finds a large kennels environment stressful, or one that is used to living in a house. Wrickton Hall Dog Boarding, in the Bridgnorth area, boards up to ten dogs in a farmhouse rather than kennel runs, which sits somewhere between the two models; ask directly how dogs are kept there if that distinction matters to your dog.
Two different councils, the same regulations
Telford & Wrekin Council and Shropshire Council both license home boarding and boarding kennels under the same 2018 regulations, so asking to see the certificate is the same question either way, whichever of Telford's areas you are in. See our council licences guide for which of the twelve have a licence number confirmed directly.