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Licensed dog boarding in Little Houghton
West Northamptonshire Council lists 1 licensed business for dog boarding in Little Houghton. None currently holds a 4- or 5-star rating.
1 of the 1 holds more than one licensable activity, usually boarding alongside day care.
The closest alternative is Hackleton, with 1 licensed business and none rated 4★ or above.
Across Northamptonshire as a whole, 77% of licensed businesses are rated 4★ or above (59 of 77). Little Houghton at 0% is 77 points below that.
It publishes a website we have been able to check, listing a phone number. Summarised below the register.
We last verified West Northamptonshire Council's register 5 months ago. Councils publish on their own schedules and some go quiet for months; where that happens we show the age of the data rather than implying it is current.
The register for Little Houghton
| Business | Council rating | Licence | Expires | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cottage Garden Cattery & Kennels | ★★★☆☆ | LN/201500810 | 31 December 2026 | 12 March 2026 |
Star ratings are issued by the licensing authority and combine a risk score with a compliance assessment — they are not customer reviews and we never merge them with one. A new business cannot normally receive 5 stars regardless of quality, and a 2- or 3-star business is still fully compliant with the law. Ratings are reproduced exactly as published by the issuing council.
From operators' own websites
The register above is the council's record. This section is what these businesses say about themselves on their own public websites, fetched and summarised — not reproduced — with the date we last checked. We do not verify these claims.
Cottage Garden Cattery Northants is a family run cattery business based near Northampton in Northants with over40 years experience with handling cats.
- Advertises
- Cat boarding
- Phone
- 01604 891420
- Source
- northants-cattery.co.uk, checked 2 August 2026
Using this register
- A licence expiring soon is rarely a red flag — renewals are routine and councils are often slow to publish them — but it is worth asking about if you are booking months ahead.
- An operator holding several activities (boarding plus day care, say) can usually take a dog at shorter notice than one licensed for overnight boarding alone.
- Where a town's ratings cluster at one level, that usually reflects a single inspector applying a consistent view rather than a real quality cliff between operators. Use the rating to exclude, then visit.
- Home boarders fill up months ahead for school holidays. Widening your search to a neighbouring town early beats ringing round locally late.
- Licensed businesses generally sit in the upper half of the local price range. The licence, insurance and inspection regime carries real cost that an individual sitter working from your home does not have.
These are businesses licensed to board animals for payment under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018. They are not house sitters. A sitter who stays in your home and cares for your pet there does not need this licence — the licensing regime applies to boarding at the operator's premises, home boarding, day care, breeding, and sale of pets.
Where these figures come from
- Last updated
- 12 March 2026
- Basis
- Listed asking rates, not transacted prices
- Local authority animal activity licence registers — English local authorities. Factual fields extracted from each council's published public register: trading name, licence number, licensable activity, star rating and expiry date. Where a council redacts an address — as they routinely do for home boarders operating from a residential address — the record is kept without a location and never geolocated by inference. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
- Postcode geography — Office for National Statistics / Ordnance Survey, via postcodes.io. Postcodes already published in council registers are resolved to a parish or ward and coordinates. Only postcodes the council itself published are looked up. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
- Operators' own public websites — The licensed businesses themselves. Factual metadata — description, opening hours, contact details and advertised services — extracted from each operator's own public website. robots.txt is checked and obeyed before every fetch, requests are rate-limited to one per host per run, and every field links back to the page it came from with the date we last checked. Claims operators make about themselves are not verified by us. Licence: Summarised, not reproduced. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
- Licence records are republished from the West Northamptonshire Council public register. We reproduce factual fields only — business name, licence number, rating, expiry — and link back to the source register.
- Council star ratings are never combined with user reviews or with any score of our own.