About Find My Kennel

Kyle Hurst, founder. I build the data pipeline, run the monthly verification, and write the research. There is no editorial staff behind the studies: one person, one dataset, every number traceable to a facility you can look up. LinkedIn.

Press, data requests and corrections: kyle@findmykennel.com. If you are a reporter, ask for the facility-level rows behind any number — a state, a metro, or a single figure — and you will get a CSV, not a summary.

Base records come from Overture Maps and Foursquare’s open places data, de-duplicated across sources and cleaned by a set of published rules: in-home pet sitters, dog walkers, shelters, breeders and horse facilities are excluded because they are not places you can bring a dog to board or groom. Every listing carries its source and release, so we can always say where a record came from.

Prices, hours and amenities are read from each facility’s own website and stored with the page they came from. When a facility publishes separate rates by species, the dog rate is the one we use. Rows we cannot verify are excluded rather than guessed, and every exclusion is recorded with a reason.

Each price index reports the median advertised rate per state, with the sample size and the 25th and 75th percentiles, and only for states with at least ten priced facilities. A cost-of-living-adjusted median uses the Bureau of Economic Analysis regional price parities. The full table is downloadable as CSV under CC BY 4.0. When a methodology changes, the page says so and carries a revision date.

Advertised prices are list prices, not what a stay actually costs after size upcharges and holiday rates. We say that on every page because it is the honest limit of the method.

Every listing page has a “report a correction” link, and every research page names the person responsible. If a number is wrong, tell me and it will be fixed in the data, not just on the page.