About Pawvenues

Seventeen stays, each one read at the source.

Handing over a dog or cat for a week is easier when you know what the place actually offers. Pawvenues keeps a short list of 17 source-checked boarding kennels, catteries and pet stays in 15 towns across the ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia.

How a stay gets onto the list

Every venue began as an open place record, often from Overture Maps, and was only published after its own website confirmed the name, the town and that it really boards animals. Anything we could not reconcile was left out. Those checks ran in September 2026.

Four venues set out their services on their site, and their pages repeat that list. Nine publish a phone number, which we show. Six were matched to their public map listing in September 2026, when name, place and website all agreed; those pages carry the Google rating and review count, and one also shows its opening hours.

Sorting, and the town pages

Stays are ranked by Google rating adjusted for review count. A town page is offered to search engines once three or more venues sit in it. The ranked city pages that do are listed below. Smaller towns keep their pages and stay reachable from the locations page.

Not what Pawvenues is

This is not a vet directory, a dog-walking or grooming service, or an adoption site. We also leave out prices, vaccination rules and staff qualifications unless a venue states them, so ask the venue about the care your pet needs.

Something out of date?

Write to help@pawvenues.com.au with the page link and a current source, whether it is a correction or a request to take a venue down. Recorded removals are checked each time the list is refreshed, and we do not contact venues on your behalf. Credits for the place data sit on the data licences page.

How listings are ranked

Ranked by Google rating adjusted for the number of reviews: every business starts at 4.5 stars from 10 reviews and its own reviews move it from there, so 4.9 from 300 reviews ranks above 5.0 from 6. The ratings are Google's figures as held in our data in October 2026, not an assessment by Pawvenues. Businesses without a Google rating follow the ranked list, alphabetically. The directory page ranks every business Pawvenues holds, and each city page ranks the businesses in that city. Each city page shows its best-rated 100 as cards and the next 200 in a compact ranked list below them, and a city with more continues on numbered pages of 250; the directory page shows its best-rated 100 as cards and the rest of the 2,000 best-rated in a compact list.

Businesses from public map listings

Pawvenues also holds 1,163 pet-stay providers taken from their public map listings, as held in our data in October 2026, ranked alongside the source-checked listings and marked "Public map listing". A business is included only with at least three Google reviews, a primary category that matches this directory, and a location that can be placed from its own address or map coordinates. A business on our removal list is never included. These businesses have not been read against their websites. Each has a profile (1,163 in all) showing its name, suburb, listed type, Google rating with the review count and the city page it is ranked on, with a link to its own website or its Google Maps listing. Where our data holds them, a profile also shows the services the business's own website lists and an ABN matched on the Australian Business Register. Where the public map listing holds them, a profile also shows the business's street address, phone number and opening hours (the street address for businesses that trade from premises), as held in our data.

Ranked city pages offered to search engines: Dubbo, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Central Coast, Geelong, Newcastle, Canberra, Wollongong, Hobart, Townsville, Mandurah, Ballarat, Bendigo, Darwin, Mackay, Bowral, Launceston, Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Cairns, Hervey Bay, Nowra, Port Macquarie, Rockhampton, Alice Springs, Traralgon, Warrnambool, Bathurst, Gympie, Ipswich, Logan, Maitland, Orange, Tweed Heads, Batemans Bay, Busselton, Coffs Harbour, Geraldton, Maryborough, Mount Gambier, Shepparton, Tamworth, Wagga Wagga and Yeppoon.