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Thurrock Council animal licensing register
Thurrock Council licenses 32 animal businesses in the categories we cover. 22 hold a 4- or 5-star rating — 69% of the register.
32 of those entries have no published address, so they appear on this page but not on any town page. That is the council's redaction rather than a gap in our data: home boarding and breeding are carried out from residential addresses, and councils withhold them for that reason. The other 0 are spread across 0 towns.
We last verified this register 2 years ago. Thurrock Council has not published an update since, so treat expiry dates in particular as indicative.
By activity, the most common licence here is dog boarding (32 businesses), followed by . 1 of the licensable activities are represented across the authority.
The council's own register is the authoritative source and we link to it below. Where our copy and theirs disagree, theirs is correct — councils sometimes amend entries without changing the published date.
Full register
| Business | Town | Council rating | Licence | Expires | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All About Cats | — | ★★★★★ | 21/01004/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| BR Pooches | — | ★★★★★ | 21/00949/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Barehams Kennels | — | ★★★★★ | 23/00919/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Bella Paws | — | ★★★★★ | 21/00989/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Dog Home Boarding In Essex | — | ★★★★★ | 24/00562/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Dog House Hotel | — | ★★★★★ | 21/00991/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Dogtopia Pet Services | — | ★★★★★ | 21/01138/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Essex Pet Services | — | ★★★★★ | 22/01202/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Evelyne's Pampered Pet | — | ★★★★★ | 23/01075/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Happy Pawz | — | ★★★★★ | 21/00963/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Kings Kennels | — | ★★★★★ | 23/00294/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Omshanti | — | ★★★★★ | 23/00199/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Paws and Hooves | — | ★★★★★ | 22/01201/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Posh Dogs Hotel | — | ★★★★★ | 23/01003/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Posh Paws | — | ★★★★★ | 23/00093/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Tanglewood Cattery | — | ★★★★★ | 22/01105/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| The Big Blue Dog | — | ★★★★★ | 21/01160/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Waggietails | — | ★★★★★ | 22/00028/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| We Love Pets Grays | — | ★★★★★ | 21/00698/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| We Take The Lead | — | ★★★★★ | 21/01026/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Whos Doodles | — | ★★★★★ | 22/00668/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Woofgang | — | ★★★★★ | 22/00006/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| 4 Paws Boarding Kennels | — | ★★★☆☆ | 22/00964/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| A and F Dog Services | — | ★★★☆☆ | 23/00131/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Harts Paw Sitters | — | ★★★☆☆ | 22/00676/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Hotel Phoebs | — | ★★★☆☆ | 23/00665/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Marigold Pawalace | — | ★★★☆☆ | 23/00857/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Pawfect Vacation | — | ★★★☆☆ | 23/00748/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Petstay Essex | — | ★★★☆☆ | 22/01166/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Planet Dog | — | ★★★☆☆ | 24/00341/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Pooch Palace | — | ★★★☆☆ | 24/00051/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
| Poodles, Oodles and Doodles | — | ★★★☆☆ | 23/01099/LIANI | — | 5 July 2024 |
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.
Rating distribution across Thurrock Council
| Rating | Businesses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| ★★★★★ | 22 | 69% |
| ★★★☆☆ | 10 | 31% |
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
- 5 July 2024
- 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.
- Source register: https://www.thurrock.gov.uk/animal-licensing/animal-premises-star-ratings
- Re-use terms asserted by the council: Open Government Licence v3.0