Following reports of fake animal licences on social media, dog owners are urged to make sure that anyone who offers a home boarding service is legally allowed to look after their pets.
Home boarding offers your dog the opportunity to stay with a boarder in their own home. Your dog is treated as one of the family. Home boarders require a licence to offer home boarding or day care services from their property.
Hart's Environmental Health team advises that anyone looking to use a home boarder service should check it has the correct licence, displayed in a public-facing area.
Licences have a unique reference number and registered business are stored on our registered home boarder list on the Hart website.
Please contact the team if you cannot find a home boarder listed or you have concerns that a business is operating without a licence on 01252 774421 or email animallicensing@hart.gov.uk.
We also recommend that you should visit to the premises to ensure it is suitable for your pet.
For further information, please visit our animal welfare licensing page on the website.