How Worthing's councils license dog boarders
Dog boarding, home boarding and day care are all licensed activities under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018, and Worthing's nine listed businesses fall under two separate authorities: Adur and Worthing Councils, covering Worthing centre, Goring, Durrington, Broadwater and Lancing & Sompting, and Arun District Council, covering Littlehampton.
Two councils, neither with a register this directory could read directly
Adur and Worthing Councils' own licensing pages name no public register at all, only a phone and email contact for Environmental Health, and its online licensing portal returned no working public search path this round. Arun District Council is similar: its own register page could not be queried successfully either. For both councils, the only readable source this round was the third-party mirror animal-licensing.uk, and that mirror's supplemental data for this authority was found to repeat the same phone number across clearly unrelated businesses, so it is not treated as reliable for anything beyond confirming that a licence exists.
Why no star rating is shown
Because neither council's own register could be read directly, and the mirror's own data could not be trusted for anything beyond a bare licence match, no star rating is shown for any of Worthing's nine listed businesses, even where the mirror displays one. This is different from a town where the council genuinely issues no star rating at all: here, a rating may exist but could not be independently confirmed, so it is left out rather than risk publishing a wrong figure.
Where a licence could not be matched
Two businesses, Little Furlong Kennels & Cattery and VIP Doggy Day Care, could not be matched to a specific register entry on the mirror checked this round. VIP Doggy Day Care's own site names a licence number and a star rating for Arun District Council, but neither could be confirmed here, so ask to see current proof of licensing directly when you call either business.
A specific fault found on the mirror
Checking the mirror's raw data for Adur and Worthing Councils found the same phone number listed against more than one unrelated business, and the same Facebook page shown for two different trading names. Where a number could be confirmed on a business's own website, such as Molly & Friends Dog Hotel or Pet-Professionals, it is used here; everywhere else, a scraped number from this authority's mirror data is left out rather than risk publishing a wrong one.
What to check yourself
If a council licence matters to your decision, the most direct check is to ask the business for its licence number and contact the relevant council's licensing team yourself, rather than relying on a claim made on a business's own site or a figure shown on a third-party mirror, since neither could be independently confirmed for this page.