Trends · data through September 2026

Animal Boardings in the United States

Iceflower tracks 1,700 stores from 1,039 animal boarding chains in the United States. Dog Day Afternoon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Smart Parke and Pet Paradise.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,039
Tracked stores
1,700
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked animal boarding chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Dog Day Afternoon and Smart Parke sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dog Day Afternoon ▲3 +18.2%
2 Smart Parke ▲3 +17.7%
3 Pet Paradise - +15.4%
4 Preppy Pet ▲2 +5.6%
5 PetSuites ▲1 +2.5%
6 Hounds Lounge Pet Resort & Spa - +1.2%
7 The Barking Lot - +1.1%
8 TailWaggers Doggy Daycare ▲1 +0.1%
9 Dogtopia ▼1 -0.9%
10 Pet Palace - -2.0%
11 Camp Bow Wow - -3.1%
12 Camp Run-A-Mutt - -5.9%
13 Dogtown - -8.2%
14 Animal Health Services ▲1 -9.8%
15 House of Hounds ▼1 -15.9%
  • Camp Bow Wow
  • Pet Paradise
  • PetSuites
  • Dogtopia
  • Pet Palace
  • Animal Health Services
  • Sterling Meadows Kennel & Cattery
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,700 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 450 of the 1,700 stores (26%); 955 of the 1,039 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Camp Bow Wow (194)
  • Pet Paradise (61)
  • PetSuites (31)
  • Dogtopia (136)
  • Pet Palace (19)
  • Animal Health Services (4)
  • Sterling Meadows Kennel & Cattery (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Camp Bow Wow 194
  • 2 Dogtopia 136
  • 3 Pet Paradise 61
  • 4 PetSuites 31
  • 5 Best Friends Pet Care 28
  • 6 The Dog Stop 28
  • 7 Pet Palace 19
  • 8 The Barking Lot 13
  • 9 Hounds Town 10
  • 10 Central Bark 10
  • 11 Canine Country Club 9
  • 12 Wag Hotels 9
  • 13 Dogtown 8
  • 14 Camp Run-A-Mutt 8
  • 15 TailWaggers Doggy Daycare 7
  • 16 Preppy Pet 6
  • 17 Puppy Haven 5
  • 18 City Bark 5
  • 19 PUPS Pet Club 5
  • 20 Animal Health Services 4
  • 21 Smart Parke 3
  • 22 Hilltop Farm 3
  • 23 Dog Day Afternoon 3
  • 24 House of Hounds 3
  • 25 Four Paws Inn 3
  • 26 Hounds Lounge Pet Resort & Spa 3
  • 27 Smith Animal Hospital 3
  • 28 Country Acres 3
  • 29 Barking Hound Village 3
  • 30 FurEver Friends 3
  • 31 All Creatures Small Animal Hospital 3
  • 32 The Ruff House 3
  • 33 Harmony Pet Clinic 2
  • 34 Dog Gone Fun 2
  • 35 All Creatures Pet Sitting 2
  • 36 The Yuppie Puppy 2
  • 37 Dogwood Acres Pet Retreat 2
  • 38 Paws In Time 2
  • 39 Rover Oaks Pet Resort 2
  • 40 Four Paws Only 2
  • 41 A Dog's Life 2
  • 42 Elaine's Pet Resorts 2
  • 43 A Walk in the Park 2
  • 44 Park Your Paws 2
  • 45 Purr Life 2
  • 46 The Bark Club 2
  • 47 Skiptown 2
  • 48 Mountain View Veterinary Services 2
  • 49 Wee Little Paws Inn 2
  • 50 Doggy Daycare and spa 2

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