Stafford Dog Boarding kennels

Lady Patch

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I've just booked a holiday for 11 days and will need somewhere to board my 2 dogs. Can anyone recommend a boarding kennels?
The dogs are like my kids and I have never boarded them anywhere before and as you can imagine I'm a little anxious about leaving them...thanks in advance...:)
 

grumpystaffordguy

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We use Holme from Home:
http://www.hfhkennels.co.uk/index.html
The bit we like the best is that they let the dogs out in the field to have a run around together (well they do the friendly ones anyway!). My dog loves that and I sometimes think its a bit of a holiday for him as well. There are cheaper options and if they are booked up and its just for a couple of nights we do use the one near us, but its a bit like a doggy prison so I wouldn't really want to leave my dog there for 11 nights. I won't mention the name on here, but in box me if you want to know.

We used to use this place, but the price was steep and it just got to much for us to afford to be honest:
http://www.quintessential-quarters.co.uk/
Mind you that was 6-8 years ago now and HFH has expanded so the price may not be that different now.
 

Alesto

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Hi
Has anybody any other recommendations for a dog boarding kennels? Just looking for our 2 dogs.
 

flossietoo

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Www.dogtrainingstafford.co.uk

Should get you to the home page of K9 training. Angie of k9 provides home boarding. I leave my dogs with her and I don't worry about them when I am away. As you might perhaps have gathered from some of my other posts, that is a very high recommendation indeed!

The dogs stay with Angie and her own dogs, as part of the family. They go for hurtles on the Chase every day and spend time on the sofa watching soppy films. I have huge confidence in Angie because she works with dogs and trains them professionally. So she can 'read' them and preempt problems - she wouldn't be taken by surprise for instance, by one of mine taking off after a rabbit and dashing across a road, for instance, because she'd have seen the hazard before they did. She also doesn't take any nonsense. I'm afraid my dogs behave a lot better with her, than they do with me.

There are very few people I'd trust with my dogs. If Angie can't have them, I don't go away. They come back safe, happy and ready for a long sleep.

I was cycling somewhere near Eccleshall last week and found some kind of combined dog boarding/cemetery place. That would certainly concentrate their minds!
 

That-Crazy-Rat-Lady

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I would just like to add I don't recommend Swan Pit Kennels just outside Gnosall.
My auntie's dog stayed there a while ago and her dogs paw was injured, a deep cut.
They failed to take him to the vets whilst in their care and then when my auntie picked him up she could see he was in distress and they denied anything had happened?!
And then refused to pay her insurance vets excess and it cost her a small fortune, very lucky it didn't get infected.
Very rude people who don't take care or responsibility for your pets.
 

Roy

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I've just booked a holiday for 11 days and will need somewhere to board my 2 dogs. Can anyone recommend a boarding kennels?
The dogs are like my kids and I have never boarded them anywhere before and as you can imagine I'm a little anxious about leaving them...thanks in advance...:)

What sort of dogs do you have, I would like to hear from anyone interested in looking after each other's dogs for holidays etc

Like most our dog is used to company 24/7 and the thought of putting him in a cell for. A week freaks me out
 

kyoto49

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What sort of dogs do you have, I would like to hear from anyone interested in looking after each other's dogs for holidays etc

Like most our dog is used to company 24/7 and the thought of putting him in a cell for. A week freaks me out

Home from Holme is the only kennels I'd consider putting my dog in, even the most wussy of Greyhounds enjoys it :) . Why see it as a cell,? dogs really don't do home furnishing :).

I can relate to people's scepticism of kennels, but Home from Holme gives each dog loads of off lead exercise, a warm cosy kennel and some attention. Your dogs will be fine....they don't stress anywhere near as much as their over-doting owners!

I remember going to collect ours at the end of the holiday and she wasn't in her kennel, As we went off to the paddock to find her, a pack of happy hounds ran past back to their kennels having had a big run. Ours was one of these dogs and she never even noticed me she was so content!! I was slightly hurt :), but pleased she was enjoying her stay.
 

Roy

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Your right of course I worry far to much,and cell probably is to strong-a-word, my dog has company's 24/7 before we moved to the area he would go to friends home from home for both our dog and theirs

I feel sure there is someone out there who would prefer a similar agreement to kennels.,ie full attention night n day.

But will look into HFH as a temp alternative.
 

Lady Patch

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Your right of course I worry far to much,and cell probably is to strong-a-word, my dog has company's 24/7 before we moved to the area he would go to friends home from home for both our dog and theirs

I feel sure there is someone out there who would prefer a similar agreement to kennels.,ie full attention night n day.

But will look into HFH as a temp alternative.


Hi Roy I was wondering if you ending up boarding your dog, and if so who with?
 

kyoto49

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HAs anyone tried the new kennels at hopton /sandon bank area ?

A work colleague uses them for his 2 GSD's as doggy day care. He seems happier putting them their than leaving them home-alone all day. I believe they have a secure area for off lead exercice which is always I bonus I feel
 

funkyfin2000

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Hi Guys,

Sorry to resurrect this one, but has anyone used the kennels on Sandon road at all? Or Holme from Home?

Cheers

Rich
 

Carole

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I once left my dog with Angie from K9 but its not for me or my dog. Never again. But each to their own.

I just googled Holme from Home but there is no way ever that I would leave my dog in such a small cage, in such close proximity to other dogs, I just wouldn't.

Where we take our Bonnie is expensive, but we just factor it into the price of our holiday.

Its not "Kennels" ..it's a "Luxury Dog Boarding/Hotel.....all lovely corridors and rooms for the dogs like a lounge etc. They are in the middle of lovely countryside and the dogs are taken for lovely long walks. They have an indoor playbarn.

Here...

http://www.grovekennels.co.uk/luxurykennelsuites.htm
 

kyoto49

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Hi Guys,

Sorry to resurrect this one, but has anyone used the kennels on Sandon road at all? Or Holme from Home?

Cheers

Rich

I use Holme from home, my first choice easily, have done for my last fragile Greyhound and this rescue thug I have now. Personally I'm a 'dog is a dog' person, they aren'tt child substitutes for me, so no worries with mine being in close proximity to other dogs, infact I see it as a positive. Holme from home have wonderful safe paddocks where the dogs get really great off lead exercise. If your dog is freindly they take a group of well suited dogs out to run and play wth each other. Our current dog has a ball and comes home fit as a fiddle :) And they don't have small cages, but large heated kennels with a large individual run, but like I say, mine's a dog, it doesn't need a hotel!!! They are usually fully booked for the school summer hols by Easter so if that's the time you need I suggest booking very soon.

Sandon Rd don't have any exercise area bar a concrete pen, so it depends how you feel about that!

My reserve kennels is Chetwynd Firs near Newport which I was very happy with, but onlead exercise only through lovely woods. Still happy to recommend
 

Carole

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I use Holme from home,

Personally I'm a 'dog is a dog' person, they aren'tt child substitutes for me,

they don't have small cages, but large heated kennels with a large individual run, but like I say, mine's a dog, it doesnt need a hotel.

The first bit...
"dog is dog" ..I agree and they are NOT child substitute for me.
BUT they ARE part of the family and deserve to be treated as such.

The second bit....
Where on the website does it show LARGE kennels? I just saw somthing the size of a broom cupboard.
 
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