Gloucestershire dog boarding is licensed by six different councils, so we read what each one publishes: Stroud’s list of licensed establishments, Tewkesbury’s register, Cheltenham’s list, Gloucester City’s register and the partial contact lists from Cotswold and the Forest of Dean. We took fourteen centres that appear on one of them, have their own website and a Google Maps listing with at least eight reviews, and offer boarding for dogs. We haven’t visited any of them. Some of the lists show licence numbers and dates, some show only names, so a name on a list tells you the council has a licence on its books for that business, not exactly what it covers. Where our evidence is thinner, the card says so. Ask to see the licence before you book. Home boarders are included where licensed, and five more options sit below the cards.
Several of these centres also board cats. We have only said what each one states about dogs.
Teckels Animal Sanctuaries and Boarding
★★★★★ 4.7 · 339 Google reviews
Whitminster, near Gloucester (GL2 7LU)
Type: Kennel (run by a registered charity alongside its sanctuary)
Licence: Stroud District Council’s list of licensed establishments (page reviewed 9 July 2026) shows Teckels Rehoming & Boarding under Animal Boarding, licence 24/01191/AWACT, 3 star, expiry 26 February 2027, and Teckels under Day Care. Its website says it is fully licensed by Stroud District Council but still quotes an older reference, 18/01569/AWACT, so ask which is current
Also lists daycare on its website; it isn’t in our daycare guide yet
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Waterloo Kennels
★★★★★ 4.9 · 331 Google reviews
Stoke Orchard, near Cheltenham (GL52 7RU)
Type: Kennel
Licence: its website shows “Licence Number: 25/00991/ANIMAL” and says it is licensed by Tewkesbury Borough Council. Tewkesbury’s register (updated 15 October 2026) lists Waterloo Kennels as boarding in kennels for dogs, 5 star, expiry 30 June 2028. The register gives no numbers, so we matched it by name and place. The site lists boarding and exercise without spelling out overnight stays, so ask what it offers for dogs
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Hydegate Pet Resort
★★★★★ 4.6 · 174 Google reviews
Uley, near Dursley (GL11 5AN)
Type: Kennel
Licence: Stroud District Council’s list (reviewed 9 July 2026) shows Hydegate Pet Resort Ltd under Animal Boarding, licence 24/01286/AWACT, 3 star, expiry 6 February 2027. Its website still quotes an older reference, 20/00597/AWACT, with no council named, so ask which is current and ask about renewal. It describes luxury kennel suites for dogs
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Springfield Kennels & Cat Hotel
★★★★★ 4.6 · 112 Google reviews
Gotherington, near Cheltenham (GL52 9SB)
Type: Kennel
Licence: its website shows “Tewkesbury Borough Council Licence No. 21/00970/ANIMB1”. Tewkesbury’s register (updated 15 October 2026) lists Springfield Kennels And Cattery as boarding in kennels for dogs, 5 star, expiry 23 April 2028. The register gives no numbers or addresses, so we matched it by name and place, and the number on the site is an older style of reference, so ask for the current licence
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Precious Pets Boarding Kennels & Cattery
★★★★★ 4.7 · 98 Google reviews
Newnham (GL14 1HL)
Type: Kennel
Licence: the Forest of Dean District Council animal public contact list (2 April 2026) shows Precious Pets Boarding Kennels & Cattery at the same address, with Boarding Kennels, Boarding Cattery and Dog Day Care. The list gives no licence number or expiry date and is not a full register. Its website shows “Animal Boarding License No. F/24/00615/ANIMAL” without naming a council
Also offers daycare, per the council list; it isn’t in our daycare guide yet
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Elm View Kennels & Cattery
★★★★★ 4.7 · 91 Google reviews
Cambridge, near Gloucester (GL2 7AN)
Type: Kennel
Licence: Stroud District Council’s list (reviewed 9 July 2026) shows Elmview Boarding Kennels, Bristol Road, Cambridge, under Animal Boarding, licence 26/00886/AWACT, 3 star, expiry 22 November 2028. We matched it by name and postcode. Its website says it is licensed for 55 dogs and 25 cats but gives no number or council
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Churchdown Cattery & Kennels
★★★★★ 4.8 · 64 Google reviews
Churchdown, Gloucester (GL3 2JA)
Type: Kennel
Licence: its website says “licensed and approved by Tewkesbury Borough Council (License 23/00289/ANIMAL)”. Tewkesbury’s register (updated 15 October 2026) lists Churchdown Cattery And Kennels as boarding in kennels for dogs, 3 star, expiry 4 July 2027. The register gives no numbers, so we matched it by name and place. The site mentions a 5 star rating, the register shows 3 star, so ask which is current
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Country Kennels & Cattery
★★★★★ 4.6 · 61 Google reviews
Prior’s Norton, near Gloucester (GL2 9LS)
Type: Kennel
Licence: Tewkesbury’s register (updated 15 October 2026) lists Country Kennels And Cattery as boarding in kennels for dogs, 3 star, expiry 31 December 2027. The register gives no numbers or addresses, so we matched it by name and place. Its website says it holds a 5 star rating from the licensing authority but names no council or number, and the register shows 3 star, so ask to see the licence
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Skaiteshill Kennels
★★★★★ 5.0 · 53 Google reviews
Skaiteshill, near Stroud (GL6 8SH)
Type: Kennel
Licence: Stroud District Council’s list (reviewed 9 July 2026) shows Skaiteshill Kennels (Cotswolds) Ltd under Animal Boarding, licence 24/01217/AWACT, 3 star, expiry 14 January 2027, so ask about the renewal. Its website footer shows an older reference, 23/01238/AWACT, with no council named. The site describes a boarding kennel without spelling out dog stays, so ask what it offers for dogs
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Brookfield Kennels & Cattery
★★★★★ 4.5 · 41 Google reviews
Elmore, Gloucester (GL2 3NR)
Type: Kennel
Licence: Stroud District Council’s list (reviewed 9 July 2026) shows Brookfield Kennels and Cattery, Elmore, under Animal Boarding, licence 25/00023/AWACT, 4 star, expiry 20 March 2027. We matched it by name and postcode. Its website shows no licence statement and says visits are by appointment only
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The Retreat Dog Boarding Kennels and Cattery
★★★★★ 5.0 · 39 Google reviews
London Road, Fairford (GL7 4DS)
Type: Kennel
Licence: Cotswold District Council’s animal public contact list (10 June 2026) shows The Retreat Boarding Kennels And Cattery, London Road, Fairford, with Boarding Kennels, Dog Day Care and Boarding Cattery. The list gives no licence number or expiry date and is not a full register. Its website blocks our reading tools, so we couldn’t read what it says about dogs or its licence. Ask it to show the licence
Also offers daycare: see our dog daycare guide for Gloucestershire
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Just Paws
★★★★★ 4.9 · 27 Google reviews
Arlingham, near Gloucester (GL2)
Type: Home boarding
Licence: its website says “Fully licensed by Stroud District Council (Licence No 21/00687/AWACT)”. Stroud District Council’s list (reviewed 9 July 2026) shows Just Paws under Home Boarding and Day Care with a renewed licence, 24/01123/AWACT, 5 star, expiry 6 January 2028. Its website still shows the older reference. We give the town and outward postcode only for home boarders
Also offers daycare: see our dog daycare guide for Gloucestershire
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Watson Pet Care
★★★★★ 5.0 · 26 Google reviews
Cheltenham (GL52)
Type: Home boarding
Licence: its website says it is “fully licensed under Cheltenham Borough Council number 25/02335/AWREGS”. Cheltenham’s list of licensed home boarders and day care shows Watson Pet Care under the same number, up to 5 dogs, 5 star. The list gives no expiry date, so ask for it. We give the town and outward postcode only for home boarders
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Paws4ward Dog Care
★★★★★ 5.0 · 16 Google reviews
Woodmancote, near Cheltenham (GL52)
Type: Home boarding (Google files it as a dog walker)
Licence: its website says “Fully Licenced with 5 Star rating from Tewkesbury Borough Council” and shows a 2025 licence number. Tewkesbury’s register (updated 15 October 2026) lists Paws4ward Dog Care as providing home boarding for dogs, 5 star, expiry 31 December 2027. We matched it by name and place. We give the town and outward postcode only for home boarders
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Ratings and review counts are from Google Maps on 13 November 2026 and come from the public. We haven’t checked them independently. We read the council lists between 9 July and 13 November 2026 as dated above. Cheltenham’s, Cotswold’s and the Forest of Dean’s lists show no expiry dates, so ask each boarder for theirs. None of the licences we could date ends within about a month of 13 November.
Listings we left out, and why
These centres didn’t make the verified list. Being left out doesn’t mean a centre is unlicensed. It means we couldn’t tick every box, so ask it directly.
- Website we couldn’t use for dogs: Carol’s Kennels & Cattery in Woolaston (5.0 from 55) is on the Forest of Dean list, but its website wouldn’t open in our browser and the text our reader returned described pets without mentioning dogs. Precious Paws Pet Sitting Services in Painswick (5.0 from 63) is on Stroud’s boarding table, but its website covers cats and small pets only. Cotswold Canine Care in Cirencester (5.0 from 162) has a website that doesn’t mention boarding and Google files it as a groomer.
- No website we could use: Bassett Court Kennels (4.9 from 24) is on Stroud’s list but has no website on its Google listing.
- Not a boarding kennel: Cheltenham Animal Shelter (4.5 from 311) holds a rehoming licence rather than a boarding kennel listing.
- Too few reviews: Hattie’s Dog Boarding, A Very Good Guest and Harkin’s Hounds appear on Gloucester City’s register but have fewer than eight Google reviews.
- Out of area: Old Park Kennels (Ross-on-Wye), Cottage Kennels (Worcestershire), Barnewood Boarding Kennels (Oxfordshire) and Sherston Boarding Kennels (Wiltshire) turn up in Gloucestershire searches but are in other counties.
- Franchises: Barking Mad Cotswolds is a franchise, so we left it out.
- Not examined: Many more home boarders appear on the Stroud, Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Gloucester lists, and several have Google listings with eight or more reviews, among them Woofles Dog Boarding, Cotswold Home Boarding, Creature Comforts Pet Boarding, Blackberry Boarding and Pedigree Pens. We didn’t check each one, and Orchard View Kennels and Sutton Manor Canine Hotel & Spa on the Forest of Dean list weren’t assessed either, so this guide is not a full list.
- Not assessed: Rover’s Gloucestershire page wasn’t assessed.
Other options we could not licence-verify
These five have their own website and a Google Maps listing. Two of them show no licence number we could tie to an official record, and three have a council list entry but sit beyond our cap of verified cards. Treat all five as options to ask questions of rather than verified listings, and ask each for its licence, its number and its expiry date.
BJ’s Pet Resort & Spa
★★★★★ 4.8 · 208 Google reviews
Cheltenham Road East, Churchdown, Gloucester (GL2 9QF)
Type: Kennel
Licence: its website lists dog boarding in kennels and luxury suites but shows no licence number or council. Tewkesbury’s register (updated 15 October 2026) lists a “BJ Boarding Kennels” with dog kennels, day care and cat boarding, 5 star, expiry 26 January 2028, but the register gives no address and the name differs, so we can’t confirm it is the same business
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Spatchcock Kennels
★★★★★ 4.9 · 60 Google reviews
Ablington, Cirencester (GL7 5NY)
Type: Kennel
Licence: its website says it offers “fully licensed” kennels and lists boarding with walks, but shows no licence number or council, and it isn’t on Cotswold District Council’s partial contact list. Ask the Cotswold licensing team to confirm
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Doggylicious
★★★★★ 4.9 · 66 Google reviews
Churchdown, Gloucester (GL3)
Type: Home boarding (Google files it as a pet groomer)
Licence: Tewkesbury’s register (updated 15 October 2026) lists Doggylicious as providing home boarding for dogs, 5 star, expiry 19 December 2026, so ask about the renewal. Its website says it is fully licensed and offers home boarding but names no council. We give the town and outward postcode only for home boarders
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Linds Furry Friends
★★★★★ 4.7 · 31 Google reviews
Churchdown, Gloucester (GL3)
Type: Home boarding (Google files it as a dog walker)
Licence: its website shows “Home Boarding Licence: 23/00429/ANIMAL” without naming a council. Tewkesbury’s register (updated 15 October 2026) lists Linds Furry Friends as providing home boarding for dogs, 3 star, expiry 15 May 2027. We matched it by name and place. We give the town and outward postcode only for home boarders
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Bright Eyes Dog Care
★★★★★ 5.0 · 27 Google reviews
Cheltenham (GL51)
Type: Home boarding with day care (Google files it as a dog day care centre)
Licence: Cheltenham’s list of licensed home boarders and day care shows Bright Eyes Dog Care as 24/01287/AWREGS, up to 8 dogs, 5 star, with no expiry date. Its website quotes an older reference, 21/01441/AWREGS, from Cheltenham Borough Council, so ask which is current. We give the town and outward postcode only for home boarders
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How to check a dog boarding licence in Gloucestershire
In England, boarding dogs for other people as a business needs a licence from the local council under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018. In Gloucestershire that means Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud or Tewkesbury, depending on where the business is. On 13 November 2026 we read Stroud’s list of licensed establishments, Tewkesbury’s register of animal activity licences, Cheltenham’s list of licensed premises and Gloucester City’s public register, which was updated on 9 November. Stroud’s list shows numbers, expiry dates and star ratings, Tewkesbury’s shows expiry dates and stars but no numbers or addresses, Cheltenham’s shows numbers and stars but no dates or addresses, and Gloucester’s PDF has a column for boarding cats or dogs. Cotswold and the Forest of Dean publish only a contact list of businesses that agreed to be shown, with no licence numbers, so those are not full registers. South Gloucestershire is a separate council with its own licensing. For anything you can’t settle, ask the council, for example Cotswold’s licensing team at ers.licensingandapplications@publicagroup.uk, Tewkesbury at licensing@tewkesbury.gov.uk or Cheltenham at licensing@cheltenham.gov.uk. Many centres still quote older licence numbers on their sites, so ask for the current licence, its number and its expiry date.
What to ask before you book
Ask what vaccinations the centre wants to see, and speak to your vet about what your own dog needs. Our guide to kennel cough in dogs explains the signs and when to call your vet. Ask what happens if your dog needs a vet in the night, who is on site overnight, how dogs are exercised and supervised, whether dogs from different homes ever mix, how many dogs are boarded at once, and whether a trial stay is possible.
A stay somewhere new can feel exciting or unsettling for some dogs. A calming bite is a complementary feed some owners use around change, and if your dog struggles with being left, speak to your vet or a qualified behaviourist first.
More for Gloucestershire:
- Our Gloucestershire dog services hub
- Dog daycare in Gloucestershire if your dog only needs the day
- Dog walkers in Gloucestershire for a midday walk
- Vets in Gloucestershire
- Dog trainers in Gloucestershire
Frequently Asked Questions
How did you choose these Gloucestershire dog boarding centres?
We listed centres that appear on a Gloucestershire council’s licence list, have their own website and a Google Maps listing with at least eight reviews, and offer boarding for dogs. We checked on 13 November 2026 and haven’t visited anywhere. Five more options sit in their own section.
Does dog boarding need a licence in Gloucestershire?
In England, boarding dogs for other people as a business needs a council licence under the 2018 regulations. In Gloucestershire that is Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud or Tewkesbury council, depending on where the business is. Ask to see the licence, its number and its expiry date before you book.
What should I ask a kennel or home boarder before booking?
Ask to see the licence and its expiry date, what vaccinations they want to see, what happens if your dog needs a vet, who is on site overnight, how dogs are exercised and supervised, whether dogs from different homes mix, and whether a trial stay is possible. Speak to your vet about your own dog’s needs.
Why are some Gloucestershire kennels missing from the list?
Some centres on the council lists have no website on their Google listing, have fewer than eight reviews, or have a website we couldn’t use. Others are cat-only, sit in other counties, or we simply didn’t check them all. Being left out doesn’t mean a centre is unlicensed, so ask it.
Written by Georgiana & Figo, who prefers his holidays to be properly licensed.
