Boarding and medical hospitalization for dogs and cats in Al Quoz 3 — climate-controlled rooms inside a working veterinary clinic, a daily check by veterinary staff, and medication given on schedule.
Search animal boarding near me in Dubai and you mostly get pet hotels. Petbook is a working veterinary clinic in Al Quoz 3, minutes off Al Khail Road, and your dog or cat boards inside it. The people opening the door each morning are veterinary staff, so a guest who leaves his breakfast on day two is examined that day, not reported to you on landing.
Leaving a pet behind feels bad, and no amount of nice photography fixes that. What helps is knowing who is in the building at three in the morning. A pet that goes downhill in a kennel across town starts with a phone call and a drive; here, the treatment room is down the corridor and our emergency line is answered 24/7.
We take two kinds of guest: healthy pets whose owners are travelling, and pets needing inpatient care after surgery, on fluids, or on a medication schedule nobody at home can keep. Cat boarding is AED 60 a night — full list on our vet prices page — and hospitalization is quoted per case: message us on WhatsApp for a same-day quote. Every guest must be current on vaccinations before check-in; cats have their own routine on our cat boarding in Dubai page.
Every guest is looked over daily. A pet who seems unwell is examined by a licensed vet the same day, with our lab in the same building.
Fluids, injections, post-operative recovery and daily tablets — given on schedule by trained staff and written into your pet's file.
No outdoor runs and no shaded yard. In a Dubai summer an air-conditioned room is the only safe way to board a pet.
For cats who need no medication. Gold members get 50% off cat boarding; Platinum members get 75% off boarding for cats and dogs.
Reviews from our public Google profile. None mention boarding by name yet — these are owners describing the care their pet got and how often they heard from us.
I highly recommend this veterinary clinic! They truly care about pets as if they were their own babies. Every time my cats have been sick, the team has always followed up to check on their recovery & see if they needed anything else. That level of care & compassion means so much to me 🤍
I entrusted them with my cat, Lulu, during her surgery, and they took such great care of her. The team was incredibly kind, gentle, and professional. They kept me updated every day with videos and messages, which gave me so much peace of mind.
We're so thankful to Dr. Ahmed and the team for their excellent care—our Batchu recovered very quickly from her illness under their treatment. They were very caring and considerate, and we truly appreciated their follow-up concern even after discharge.
Dogs and cats, one night or a month
Same daily routine whatever the length of the stay — and a licensed vet in the building the whole time.
Boarding is AED 60 per night — the same rate for a cat or a dog, and the same for every size and weight, as long as the animal needs no medication and no daily attention from a vet. The isolation ward is AED 120 per night. A stay that does need medication or a vet's attention is priced by what the case actually needs, so we quote it before anything starts: message us on WhatsApp for a same-day quote.
A climate-controlled room, a daily check, and updates while you are away — cats and dogs.
60 AED
Platinum is AED 4,999 a year and covers cats and dogs. Gold, at AED 2,999, covers 50% off cat boarding.
75% off boarding
From the first message to the handover at pick-up — including the parts most boarding sites leave out.
We confirm the dates and read the record. Vaccinations must be current at check-in; if a booster is due we give it at drop-off, not at a second clinic.
Doses and times, diet, allergies, how he is with strangers, and the number to reach you on — recorded at booking, not remembered at the desk.
Bring the food he already eats, medication in its packaging, and a blanket or worn T-shirt. A sudden change of diet upsets most pets more than the change of address.
Meals at his usual times, fresh water, a clean climate-controlled room and time out of it for company. Cats and dogs stay apart — no cat spends a week listening to barking.
Doses given on time by trained staff and logged in the file, plus a daily check of appetite, toilet, weight, mood and any wound.
Photos and videos during the stay, and you can message from any time zone. At collection you hear what actually happened, including anything we treated.
Real photos of clients at Petbook in Al Quoz 3, while our own boarding-room shoot is being arranged.
Vaccinations have to be current before check-in — it is the only honest way a shared building stays safe for puppies, seniors and pets recovering from surgery. If yours are due, our First and Annual Vaccination Packages are AED 199 and cover the examination, the viral vaccine and deworming, done at drop-off.
The city empties and refills on a schedule, the weather rules out half of what boarding means elsewhere, and plenty of our guests belong to people mid-move.
From June the city thins out and families go home for six or eight weeks. Spaces fill before the flights do — travelling in July? Book the stay with the ticket.
Eid breaks and half-terms move everyone at once, so those weeks fill first. Three nights can be squeezed in late; three weeks in August cannot.
At 45°C every part of a stay is indoor and air-conditioned, including the metres from your car — which rules out the yard-and-run model most boarding is built on.
Leaving a diabetic cat or a post-op dog with a neighbour is an unfair ask. Insulin, tablets and wound checks are staff work here — on a schedule, in writing.
People move constantly and handover dates rarely line up. A pet in a half-packed flat with movers coming through the door is safer boarded for the week.
Every guest must be up to date before check-in, and Dubai pet registration runs off the same record. We check it at booking and update it at drop-off if it has lapsed.
Two services, one building. Boarding is for a pet who is well: a room, a routine, meals at the usual times and a daily look-over. Hospitalization is inpatient care — fluids, injections, pain relief, monitoring — for a pet recovering from a procedure or under treatment.
The line between them is not fixed, and that is the whole argument for boarding inside a clinic: a guest who deteriorates crosses it the same day, seen by people who already know the case.
Staff look over every guest daily and know what they are looking at. Any of these moves a pet to the treatment side the same day — and you are told, wherever you are.
Because you are paying for the road as much as the time — a sitter crossing Dubai twice a day for a week is charging for both trips, and rates climb again over Eid and the school holidays when everyone books at once. What the fee does not buy is the hours in between: a dog who vomits at 9am is found at 6pm. Cat boarding here is AED 60 a night and sits inside the clinic rather than in a separate pet hotel, so a dog who goes off his food is examined the same day by the veterinary team. That is the comparison worth making, not the headline number.
It is a rescue-adoption guideline — roughly three days to decompress, three weeks to learn a routine, three months to settle — so it is not a boarding rule. The first part still applies to a stay: the first two or three days are the unsettled ones, which is why we keep your dog's own food and feeding times and why quiet, familiar-smelling bedding is worth packing.
Yellow bile on an empty stomach usually means he has gone too long between meals, often after eating less than normal while he was away. A small bland meal and a return to his usual times settles most cases within a day. If it keeps happening, he is also off his food at home, or you see blood, book an examination rather than waiting it out.
Common, but not something to ignore. Stress and a change of food are the usual causes, which is exactly why we ask you to bring your dog's own diet. Anything lasting more than a day, or with blood, lethargy or a refusal to drink alongside it, needs a same-day appointment — dehydration is the part that turns a mild upset into a drip.
Pets arriving into the UAE with correct paperwork and an approved import permit are not held in quarantine, but the practical problem is the gap: the flight lands before the flat is ready, or the movers arrive before the keys do. Supervised boarding covers that week, and we check the vaccination record while your dog is with us.
Tell us what your pet needs — we confirm on WhatsApp right away. Emergencies are answered 24/7 on +971 54 888 3686.
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