Premium home boarding for dogs
Your dog stays in a home, not a kennel, with photos every few hours.
LuxeWags places dogs with a small network of vetted hosts who take one booking at a time. Every stay starts with a meeting, follows your feeding and medication routine exactly, and has an emergency clinic arranged in advance.
No account. No card. No sales call.
- Hosts interviewed, home-inspected and background checked
- Hosts take one booking at a time
- Photo updates several times a day
The problem
Boarding kennels are stressful for many dogs and distressing for owners, who spend the trip worrying.
Pet-sitting marketplaces compete on price with minimal vetting, so the owner ends up choosing a stranger by star rating. Owners who would happily pay more for genuine confidence have nowhere to go.
Who it is for
Dog owners who travel
Owners aged 30 to 60 who travel regularly and feel guilty about boarding kennels.
Experienced hosts
People with the space, the time and real dog handling experience to host.
How is your dog likely to cope with a kennel stay?
Answer fifteen questions about your dog's time away from you, new places and other dogs, its routine and care, and its age and energy. See where a stay could be hard and what to ask a kennel or host. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.
Method: yes scores a question in full, partly scores half and no scores nothing. Each is weighted from one to three by how much it affects a stay away from home, and the score is the weighted share out of a hundred. Unanswered questions are left out. It uses only what you have seen your dog do, and it is not a veterinary assessment.
A small, heavily vetted host network
A deliberately premium home boarding service, where every host is vetted and every stay includes a pre-stay meeting and structured updates.
Hosts vetted in person
Hosts are interviewed, home-inspected and background checked, and must have real dog handling experience.
One booking at a time
Hosts are limited to one booking at a time, so your dog is not one of six.
A pre-stay meeting
Every stay includes a pre-stay meeting.
Photo updates through the day
Structured updates with photographs, several times a day.
Feeding and medication protocol
A defined feeding and medication protocol, followed exactly.
Emergency care arranged
Veterinary insurance and a named emergency clinic are arranged in advance.
Pricing
Priced per night by city and dog. Hosts receive 75 percent of every booking.
Home stay
A vetted host, a pre-stay meeting and photo updates.
- Host takes one booking at a time
- Feeding and medication protocol
- Veterinary insurance and a named clinic
Hosting
For people with space, time and real dog experience.
- Interview and home inspection
- Background check
Hosts receive 75 percent of each booking. Prices in USD.
How it works
LuxeWags, from the first step to the result.
- 1
Check how your dog copes
A free Boarding Stress Assessment for your dog.
- 2
Meet the host
A pre-stay meeting before the booking.
- 3
Get updates during the stay
Photographs several times a day, with the feeding and medication protocol followed exactly.
Questions people actually ask
- How are hosts vetted?
- Hosts are interviewed, home-inspected and background checked, and must have real dog handling experience.
- Will my dog be one of several?
- No. Hosts are limited to one booking at a time.
- How often will I hear from the host?
- Structured updates with photographs arrive several times a day.
- What happens in an emergency?
- Veterinary insurance and a named emergency clinic are arranged in advance of the stay.
- What does a stay cost?
- 65 to 140 dollars a night, depending on the city and the dog.
- How much do hosts receive?
- Hosts receive 75 percent of each booking, which is far above the market and is the reason good hosts join.
- What is the Boarding Stress Assessment?
- A free assessment based on your dog's breed, age, temperament, separation history and medical needs. It gives an honest evaluation of how that dog is likely to cope with kennel boarding versus home boarding, and what to look for either way, including when the answer is that your dog will be fine anywhere.
- Why should I trust the boarding stress assessment?
- The result is worked out from your own answers about your dog, in your browser. It is not a veterinary or behavioural assessment, and it says so plainly when your answers suggest your dog may cope well anywhere. Ask your vet about any health or medication question.
How is your dog likely to cope with a kennel stay?
Answer fifteen questions about your dog's time away from you, new places and other dogs, its routine and care, and its age and energy. See where a stay could be hard and what to ask a kennel or host. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.
Open the free toolIt runs in your browser. LuxeWags never sees your inputs.