How to choose dog boarding or day care in Farnham and Haslemere
This directory covers 13 phone-confirmed dog boarding, home boarding and day-care businesses across Farnham (GU9), the Farnham villages (GU10), Bordon & Whitehill (GU35), Haslemere (GU27), and Hindhead & Liphook (GU26, GU30). Twelve of the thirteen hold a council home boarding, day care or boarding kennels licence checked against Waverley Borough Council's or East Hampshire District Council's own register; Hound Dog Adventures quotes a Waverley licence number on its own site that is not in the council's current register, so ask to see it.
What's actually on offer here
Most of what's listed for this town is home boarding: nine of the 13 businesses — Byers Doggy Care, Center-Barks, Clip & Care Farnham, Zena D Dog Walking, Unleashed K9 Adventures and Hound Dog Adventures in Farnham in the Farnham villages, plus Miss Walkies, Four Paws Pet Care and YAP Home Boarding in Bordon & Whitehill — board dogs in the operator's own home rather than in kennels. Two, K9 Conundrums (Farnham villages) and Play Dates Doggy Daycare (Haslemere), are day care only. Frensham Pond Kennels and Catteries, near Churt, is the only purpose-built boarding kennels in this list, and also takes cats. K9 Daycare & Education, in Bordon & Whitehill, combines a day-care and boarding kennels licence with dog training under one roof. A home boarder is shown by area and town only on this site; the street address is theirs to give you when you book.
What the council licence tells you
In England, home boarding, day care and boarding kennels are all licensed activities under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018, and the licensing council gives every licence holder a star rating from one to five as part of its inspection. This council licence rating is a government inspection score, not a customer review, and this site shows it as its own labelled fact, never mixed in with a Google or other customer rating. Waverley Borough Council, which covers Farnham, the villages, Haslemere and Hindhead & Liphook, publishes a licence number alongside the star rating; East Hampshire District Council, which covers Bordon & Whitehill, publishes only the trading name, the settlement and the star rating, with no licence number or expiry date in its own register. Ask any business here to show you its current licence certificate, and ask what its most recent inspection said, rather than relying on the star rating alone.
Vaccinations, breed policies and insurance: questions to ask
None of this is something the site can answer for you, and none of it is veterinary or legal advice; it is simply what to ask before you book. Ask what vaccinations the business will require before your dog can stay, and how far in advance of the booking they need proof. Ask whether the business has any breed policies, including for XL Bully dogs, since a boarder or day care is entitled to set its own conditions or decline a booking. If a business states on its own site that it holds public liability insurance, treat that as the business's own statement rather than something this directory has checked. None of the businesses listed here should be assumed to hold insurance, follow a particular vaccination schedule, or accept every breed, unless they tell you so themselves.
The Hindhead gap
No licensed dog boarding, home boarding or day-care business could be found addressed in Hindhead itself (GU26) on either council's register, after two separate searches. The wider Hindhead & Liphook area has no published listing on this site at all for the same reason. If you're in Hindhead, the nearest published businesses are in Farnham and Bordon & Whitehill; ask directly whether they collect from your postcode.