Doggy Dorchester

Absolutely perfect kennel for your dog. Our Ricky nearly grew up there!
Apr 29th, 2023

Mar 29th, 2023

Very good, friendly and efficient.
Mar 2nd, 2023

We booked our lab in for the trial day to make sure he was ok to attend their daycare. He was picked up and dropped off, was told on drop off that he is very boisterous and aggressive but they will see how he gets on. Confused by this we rung up and asked to speak to the owner / manager: she advised that our boy was tested with the other dogs (mainly all smaller than him) cockapoos etc and that he was showing aggression and dominant ways so they had to let him have a run around by himself and a staff member. Completely defeating the object of trying to socialise him with other dogs. He was kept in kennels for the majority of the day apart from a short play in the field with a staff member. We was told that this is there policy and that all dogs are in the kennels for most of the day with a couple of times a day let in the grounds for a run around with the other dogs. We was understandably very Confused at the feedback of our lab being aggressive and showing aggressive ways towards other dogs as we had never seen or experienced this with him. He went again for the second and third day and on the third day we was called to advise he was coughing and that we had to pick him up as they believed he had kennel cough. He had never had this before and was upto date with his vaccine. Upon registering him we was told he had to be upto date on all jabs including kennel cough but we was never asked to send or show the record from the vets to prove this. This made us wonder how many other dogs did they also not see the evidence of the kennel cough vaccine. He was extremely ill with it and we decided after this to not return to doggy Dorchester. We then tried passion for paws who are brilliant, he also was assessed there before they took him on and said the co plate opposite just that he was very excitable. At passion they are not locked in kennels most of the day but play all day with other dogs. He plays with sausage dogs puppies all types of dogs despite what DD advised. He has been with them now for over one year and never came back with kennel cough either. I would strongly advise to not put your dog with DD
Apr 24th, 2023

After visiting a number of kennels we picked the Doggy Dorchester for our two dogs to stay at whilst we were away for a wedding. The staff genuinely adore dogs and care about each dogs individual needs. On pick up our dogs seemed happy, clean and well looked after and the staff could tell us about each dogs stay e.g. what and how theyd eaten, how they had interacted with other dogs and how theyd been with the staff and inside the kennels. One of our dogs can be very nervous around other dogs and the staff took the time to clearly find out her boundaries through talking to us and observing her. When we visited our dogs enjoyed their spacious field and we had time to discuss each dog and put any worries about leaving our dogs to rest. I knew they were in very safe and capable hands and will be using the Doggy Dorchester again. Im so happy we have found this team and loved seeing the photos on Facebook as an update.
Apr 6th, 2023