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Boarding & daycare

Book a stay

Check what is free, then send everything in one go. Nothing is paid on this website. You pay when you collect.

Nobody is on the other end of this. This is a demonstration website. Woodside Pet Lodge is not a real business, no animal is boarded here and no booking made on this site is real. The telephone number is a placeholder and the booking system is a working example built to show what one does.

Nothing is paid here. Nothing is paid on this website. There is no card field on the booking form and no checkout, because a deposit taken online for a stay in eight months' time is a refund argument waiting to happen. You pay when you collect.

About pick-up. Collected after 12pm on your last day and that day counts as a night. It is on the rate card, it is on the confirmation e-mail, and it is the one charge people argue about, so it is written in three places rather than one.

Why we ask for a document. New York City requires a boarding kennel to hold proof of vaccination before an animal stays. It is the City's rule, not this lodge's own, and every boarding kennel in the five boroughs works to it.

What kind of stay

Choose one to carry on.

Which suite, and when

Pick a suite class, then the two dates. The half-open rule applies: the night of the day you leave is not charged, unless you collect after the time above, which counts as a night.

Choose a suite and two dates, then check availability.

The animal

Every breed, subject to the assessment. Weight decides which suite a dog fits, so tell us truthfully.

The vaccination record

We have to hold proof of your animal's vaccinations before it stays, and so does every other boarding kennel in the city. Upload it when you book and it is done.

Bordetella runs on a six-month clock and everything else on a three-year one, which is the detail that catches people out. A rabies certificate with two years left on it says nothing about whether your dog can board this weekend. The booking form checks each one separately and tells you which is short before you have paid anything.

For dogs, the list and the intervals are set by the City, not by us. The Boarding Kennel Regulation Act in the Administrative Code requires proof of rabies, distemper, hepatitis, parainfluenza and parvovirus within the previous three years, and bordetella within the previous six months. The Health Code separately requires proof of a current rabies vaccination for every animal, which is what reaches the cats.

FVRCP for cats is ours rather than the City's, and we say so rather than letting it sit in a list and look like law.

If your veterinarian has written that a vaccination is contraindicated for your animal, that letter is what the law asks for and it is what we need — the Code provides for exactly this, and the letter goes in the same upload box as everything else.

Upload the proof

We can take any of the following.

  • A vaccination certificate from your veterinarian
  • A health certificate
  • A bill or a receipt from your veterinarian that shows what was given and when
  • A signed letter from your veterinarian

Who can open it. The file is kept inside the booking system's database, not as a file on the website, under a reference that is not your animal's name, and it can only be opened by a signed-in member of staff. There is no address you or anybody else can type into a browser that will return it.

How long we keep it. We keep the document for twelve months after the last day of your animal's stay, because that is the period the Administrative Code sets for a boarding kennel's records, and then it is deleted. Not archived, not kept in case — deleted. A file uploaded for a booking that does not go through belongs to no stay, and is deleted within twenty-four hours.

Your details

Send the booking

Nothing is paid on this website. There is no card field on the booking form and no checkout, because a deposit taken online for a stay in eight months' time is a refund argument waiting to happen. You pay when you collect.