🐶🐕A secure freedom field and boutique boarding facility!🐕🐶
Secure Field - A fun space for dogs to play.
Boutique boarding facility - A luxury holiday for your dog.
About Heatherdene Happy Hounds
Our Mission
At Heatherdene Happy Hounds, our mission is to provide a safe and enjoyable environment for dogs to play freely. We believe that every dog deserves a space to run, explore, and socialise with other furry friends.
Our Secure freedom field
Our secure field has a variety of amenities including natural obstacles, tyres to jump through scent based activites as well as agility obstacles and a large secure area for running off energy.
Our Boutique boarding
Our boarding facility offers a high quality welcoming environment with underfloor heating in all suites and air conditioning for warmth and cooling. A secure outdoor space to relax during the day alongside the cosy sleeping area.
Rules For using our field safely for all.
Bookings
- Strictly pre-bookings only. Please do not turn up unless you have booked.
- An over 18 year old must supervise the dogs at all times.
- Dog waste must be cleaned up and taken either taken home or can be left in our dog poo bin. All litter must be taken away.
- No smoking of cigarettes in the field. Cigarette butts can be fatal to dogs.
- There is room to park one car inside the field, a second can be accommodated by prior arrangement, but not within the field.
- You use the field, and any equipment at your own risk.
- You are responsible for checking the gate is closed when you are using the field.
- You only have 50 minutes for each slot booked. Please start to get your dogs ready a few minutes before your time ends to ensure you don’t overrun into someone else’s time slot
- Bookings are not transferable. The person making the booking must be present at all times during the booking and must ensure anyone else understands and complies to our Terms and Conditions before using the fields. No sub letting of the fields is allowed.
- If you know that you will be bringing additional dogs, please update your booking and let us know and arrange how to pay the additional monies.
Cancellations
- Cancellations with less than 24 hours notice will be charged the full price.
- If the booking has to be cancelled due to adverse or unsafe weather conditions, we will offer an alternative time slot.
- You are completely and solely responsible for your dogs at all times.
- You must adhere to your time slot. If you arrive late, you still have to leave at your booked end time, i.e. 50 minutes past the hour.
Dogs
- Please ensure your dogs are up to date with worm treatments and vaccinations.
- If you see any dog waste, please clear it up. We want to keep the field as clean as possible. We will check the field at least once a day.
- If your dog has shown signs of illness in the last 48 hours, please contact us to amend your booking, to keep other dogs safe.
Responsibility
- If you see a breach in our fencing please report it to us immediately.
- Do not let your children play on, or use any equipment. It is solely for dog use only.
- Please leave any of our toys/equipment in the field. Don’t take them home with you.
- We do have our own horses and ponies onsite, so please be respectful of them.
Discover Heatherdene Happy Hounds-Boutique boarding
Our boutique kennels
Spacious outside space
Spacious outside space
Our kennels have been completely refurbished, with secure areas and cctv both outside and inside so we can observe the guests at all times. We have used subtle colours to help the dogs relax and feel comfy away from home.
Spacious outside space
Spacious outside space
Spacious outside space
Each of our suites has both indoor sleeping areas and an outdoor space for the dogs to make free choice during the day. They have plenty of time outside their suites during the day on either our secure field or in our indoor play space.
Cosy sleeping area
Spacious outside space
Cosy sleeping area
Our sleeping spaces are large with underfloor heating over the majority of the floor, but spaces left if dogs prefer a cooler sleeping spot. There are raised beds with cosy vet bedding or their own bedding from home.
Vacinations needed for visits
Vacination cerificate
The DEFRA code of practice for the welfare of dogs requires that a current vaccination certificate must accompany every boarder on the day of their arrival; any boarder without a vaccination certificate will be refused boarding.
Vacinations needed
Kennel Cough (Bordetella bronchiseptica) is a mandatory vaccination. If one of our doggie guests arrives with a missed or out of date one then unfortunately they will not be able to stay with us.
Kennel cough vaccinations must be administered at least 14 days before your dog is due to board with us.
Flea and worm treatment
Please make sure that all boarders have been wormed and treated for fleas on a regular basis. We will require dates of the latest treatment and the products used.
Any boarder found to have worms or fleas will be treated with an appropriate vet approved treatment and the additional cost payable before collection.
Unsure of any requirements
Please contact us if you are unsure about anything. Or you could contact your veterinary surgeon.
Boarding schedule for our guests
Hours of Operation
We are open for dogs to be collected between 9.30 and 10.30 am.
We are open for drop offs between 5 and 6pm.
Daily routine for our guests
- 6.45am-7.30am Dogs are let out for a run on our secure field they can go to the toilet and allowed a short run/exercise, they are put back in their suite, sleeping areas are tidied, dogs are fussed and given breakfast, waters changed and records updated for any overnight information. Room temperatures are checked and adjusted if needed. The outside space is opened so they can move freely to where they choose. Dogs are observed to check they are ok.
- 9.30am 11.30am Dogs are exercised, in secure field or the indoor play barn dependent on each dog’s needs, records updated.
- 9am –12pm sleeping areas and outdoor spaces are cleaned, while dogs are out or once they have checked out, records updates
- 9.30am-10.30am Dogs check in or out of Heatherdene Happy Hounds, dogs have a health check on arrival and departure, if dogs are leaving or arriving, then all dogs will be in their rooms to prevent barking and disturbance.
- 12pm-1.30pm Rest time, staff lunch
- 1.30pm-6pm Dogs are health checked, exercised given activities and grooming, records updated, waters are refreshed
- 5pm-6pm Feeding, records updated
- 5pm-6pm Heatherdene Happy Hounds is open for check out and in of guests, if dogs are leaving or arriving, then all dogs will be in their rooms to prevent barking and disturbance.
- Once dark, doors to outside space are closed, this changes with time of year, although in the winter we do have dusk to dawn lights outside kennels so may be left open (dependent on weather) after dusk.
- The dogs have music on during the day at different times to help them not to feel lonely when we are not with them.
- 8pm-9.30pm Owners are updated with photos so they can see how their dogs are enjoying their holiday if they have booked this service, also emails and phone calls are returned and records are updated while the dogs rest.
- 9.30pm-10.30pm Dogs are let out onto the secure field for their bed time toilets they are given a bed time treat and lights are out for sleep time.
- 10.30pm-12pm all lights out final check around and sweep, washing machine on.
Exra peace of mind while you are away
All day and night we can view the dogs on the CCTV which is in each suite, we check them during the night if needed, in cases such as illness or dogs that are finding it hard to settle, we give them the care we would give our own dogs.
Activities our guests will undertake while staying with us.
Minimum excersise routine for dogs
Minimum excersise routine for dogs
If owners give permission dogs from separate households will mix in the exercise session affording the dogs a longer session time and a chance to socialise and enjoy the company of other dogs.
10 mins between 6.45am and 7.30am
20 mins between 9.30am and 11.30am
20 mins between 1.30pm and 6pm
10 mins between 9.30pm and 10.30pm
Excersise based activities
Minimum excersise routine for dogs
- Ball/frisbee game on field
- Activity course on the field
- Tug of war games
- Water play(weather dependent)
- Trick training
- Free running on the field
- Dig opportunities in sand or bark pit
- Socialization sessions with other dogs in the kennels if owners given permission of interaction.
Treat based enrichment
- Lickit mats
- Snuffle mats
- Roll up treat toys
- Treat ball
- Kong toy with fillings
- Frozen enrichment bowls
- Hidden treats in boxes
- Hidden treats under cups
- Towel games
- Destruction boxes with treat reward
- Frozen popsicles(weather dependent)
Scent based enrichment
- Scent trail on field
- Scatter feeding treats on the field logs
- Scent tins activities in indoor areas
- Plant based sensory enrichment
Care based enrichment
- Grooming
- Bathing
- Music based calming while being fussed
- Sitting and talking to/reading to dog.
Wash and dry before hometime
Before guests return home, they wil recieve a wash in our specially designed wash area with electric shower for lovely warm water and veterinary approved shampoo. They will then have a blow dry and brush so they are lovely and clean whrn they return home.
Contact Us
Come and try our secure field or come and bring your dog on holiday while you relax knowing they are
We think your dogs will love our field and kennels as much as our dogs do!
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Heatherdene Happy Hounds
Heatherdene, Foxholes Lane, Tansley DE4 5LF
The postcode does not take you to us, please follow the signs for heatherdene boarding kennels and cattery or use What3words : valley.lease.keys Phone number: 07359 759328 Kennel visits are by appointment only.
Hours
Open today | 08:00 am – 08:00 pm |
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