A pet boarding agreement covers overnight custody at the facility’s own premises — not the owner’s home — which is why it needs vaccination requirements, facility liability, and a collection deadline a sitting arrangement never has to address. Download the ready-to-fill template below, or read the field-by-field checklist first.
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This document is a general-purpose template provided for information only. It is not legal advice, it does not create a lawyer–client relationship, and nobody has reviewed it against your situation.
Laws differ by country, state and province, and they change. A clause that is standard in one place can be unenforceable — or illegal — in another. Terms that are ordinary between two businesses can be void in a consumer or employment context.
Read every clause before you use it, fill in every blank, and delete anything that does not apply. For anything high-value, unusual, or that you could not afford to lose a dispute over, have a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction review it before it is signed.
These are the fields and clauses a pet boarding agreement needs. Leaving one out doesn’t necessarily void the agreement, but each gap is a spot where the owner and the facility can end up disagreeing about what was actually agreed.
Owner & facility names
Full legal name and address for the owner, and the registered business name and premises address for the boarding facility — who the agreement actually binds.
Pet description
Species, breed, age, weight, microchip number, medical conditions, current medications, and behavioural notes.
Vaccination requirements
Proof of current vaccinations as a condition of acceptance, and what the facility does if proof is missing or a vaccination lapses during the stay.
Boarding period & daily care
The exact drop-off and collection dates, how the pet is housed at the premises, and what daily care includes.
Feeding and medication schedule
Food brand, amounts, feeding times, and exact medication doses and timing, with what happens if a dose is refused.
Emergency vet authorization
Named veterinarian and emergency clinic, and a dollar limit the facility can approve for treatment without reaching the owner first.
Facility liability allocation
What the facility is and isn't responsible for while the pet is on its premises — injury between boarded animals, escape, and illness.
Collection and abandonment terms
What happens if the owner does not collect the pet on time — a notice period, continuing fees, and, only after that notice, placement with a shelter or authority.
Fees & payment terms
The nightly rate, deposit, when the balance is due, and any late fee.
Cancellation policy
How much notice cancels a booking without a fee, and what happens on a late cancellation or early collection.
Signatures & date
Both the owner and the facility sign and date the agreement. It isn't binding until both have signed.
A pet sitting agreement assumes the pet stays at the owner’s own home the whole time. A boarding agreement covers something structurally different: the pet moves to the facility’s own premises, for one or more nights, alongside animals belonging to other households entirely. That single fact is what pulls in three clauses a stay-at-home arrangement has no equivalent for.
Vaccination as a condition of acceptance. A facility housing animals from multiple households has a real interest in gating entry on current vaccination — not as a formality, but because one unvaccinated animal in a shared space is a risk to every other pet boarded there. The template conditions acceptance on written proof, and sets out what happens if that proof is missing or a vaccination lapses mid-stay.
Facility liability between boarded animals. When pets from different households share a premises, an injury one animal causes to another is a foreseeable risk the agreement has to allocate, not ignore. The template makes the facility responsible for reasonable precautions — appropriate separation and supervision — without making it an insurer for anything an animal in its care might do.
A collection and abandonment mechanism. A stay-at-home sitting arrangement ends when the sitter simply stops showing up; a boarding stay leaves a facility physically holding someone else’s animal if the owner never returns. The template treats a missed collection as a notice-and-fees problem — continuing charges, then written notice, and only after that a placement with a shelter or authority — rather than an unenforceable claim that the facility can simply keep or rehome the pet.
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Not legal advice — for facilities boarding pets with a bite history or operating without insurance, have a local attorney review your agreement.