Your Dog's Stay

 

Security at The Dog House

 

The Dog House is based in an extremely rural location, tucked away down a wooded mile-long, bumpy single track which ends with a ford through a river. Even some neighbours who have lived locally for years don’t know we exist. All team members carry radios and The Dog House is manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There are 21 live CCTV cameras active at all times and motion sensor lights in various buildings a few yards from the farmhouse and our staff flat. We are situated in one of the lowest areas for crime rates in the United Kingdom.

 

Transportation to The Dog House

The Dog House's state-of-the-art dog bus runs weekly from Wales to Hammersmith, West London with pre-arranged pickups along the M4 corridor. Therefore facilitating easy and comfortable transportation to our centre. Please notify us of who will be collecting or dropping off your dog to the dog bus and provide their contact details for security reasons. If you are unable to get your dog to our Dog Bus or would like to arrange your own transport for your dog we recommend using www.dog-a-porter.com (ask for Hugo or Camilla - 07778 056618) who will pick up from anywhere in Europe/UK and deliver your dog to us in Wales directly.
 

Further information on The Dog House

 

• Set in beautiful Welsh countryside with over 300 acres for your dog to explore. We keep clear and mown over 11 miles of dedicated tracks, through deciduous woodlands, conifer forestry, meadows, parkland, marshland and bogs, with crossings over various streams and two rivers the Pontcarreg and the Cywyn.

• Aside from 19 buildings, grounds, miles of hedges and various bridges we additionally maintain approx. 60 gates and a canine assault course.

• Apart from a crossing of two valleys which are teeming with wildlife, we look after a small flock of between 70 Torwen Welsh Badger face mountain sheep, 4 Kunekune pigs, a tribe of Guernsey Goats, 3 domestic rabbits, 4 Swan Geese, a Parrot and numerous; Ducks, Chickens, Bantams, Guinea fowl, Doves, Peafowl.

• A trainer/handler walks a total of between 8 - 14 miles per day whilst working.

• We uphold a stringent recycling and composting programme.

• All the farm building’s central heating and hot water are produced by renewable energy from our biomass wood chip boiler. We are completely self-sufficient in producing 100% of our own wood chips from our carefully managed woodlands.​

• We are gifted with our own delicious spring water which we filter and purify with ultraviolet light.