Pet Boarding in Columbus

Overnight boarding is the one pet-care use Columbus zoning treats as its own thing, and the addresses on this page reflect it. The city's code defines an animal kennel as premises used for boarding or breeding animals for more than a consecutive 24-hour period, and adds that pet day care, pet grooming, pet stores and pet supply stores with no outside runs are not animal kennels. So a facility on this page is doing something the code recognises as different from the daycare down the street, and where it can sit is constrained: an indoor kennel is permitted in the C-4 commercial district subject to distance limits, while outdoor runs, cages or open-air confinement require a Special Permit from the Board of Zoning Adjustment and confine the kennel to manufacturing zoning. The facilities here are spread accordingly, from Short Street and West State Street near downtown out to East Broad Street, the Easton area and North High Street. Nothing on this page says how any particular parcel is zoned or that any named business holds a Special Permit; that is parcel-specific and was not researched. One facility on this page carries a suburb's name in its brand but publishes a Columbus postal address, and it is filed under the address it publishes.