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5 Best Cat Boarding in New York (2026)

Independently ranked by our review of ratings, reviews and reputation · How we chose

Fenris Morrow
By Fenris Morrow, Expert in Professional Services · ✓ Data verified July 2026 · 7 min read

You're heading out of town and your cat needs somewhere safer than an empty apartment with an automatic feeder. Search for cat boarding in New York and Google mostly hands you dog daycares, a real gap in how this data gets tagged, and the five facilities below hold ratings between 4.8 and a perfect 5 across 871 combined reviews despite that mismatch. This guide is upfront about the gap: it flags exactly where cat care is confirmed on a facility's own site versus simply assumed.

Short answer: City Tails NYC in the West Village is the one facility here that explicitly advertises cat visits alongside dog care, at a perfect 5.0 average across 136 reviews. Manhattan Pawffice also holds a 5.0 rating (140 reviews), and Easy Wag FiDi follows at 4.9 from 176 reviews, though both read as dog-first operations in their reviews and site content. Confirm cat availability directly before booking any of these.
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New York's Top-Rated Pet Boarding, Compared

# Business Rating Reviews Best for
1 Puppy Loft 4.8 ★ 234 Dog daycare, boarding and grooming in Chelsea View ›
2 Easy Wag FiDi 4.9 ★ 176 Dog training, daycare and grooming in the Financial District View ›
3 pupculture Tribeca 4.8 ★ 185 Dog daycare and boarding near St Marks Place View ›
4 Manhattan Pawffice 5.0 ★ 140 Dog daycare and boarding on St Marks Place View ›
5 City Tails NYC 5.0 ★ 136 Dog and cat care in the West Village View ›
5 Best Cat Boarding in New York (2026)

Where cats fit, business by business

Puppy Loft logo
#1 Overall🕑 Open 6 days/wk

Puppy Loft

4.8234 Google reviews

Puppy Loft, in Chelsea, offers dog daycare, overnight boarding, and grooming, with webcams so owners can check in during the day. Its own site markets exclusively to dog owners, big dogs and small dogs get separate pages, and there's no mention of cat boarding anywhere in its published services.

What people praise

  • Reviewers praise close supervision, camera access, and temperament checks that keep groups calm
  • Boarding described as fairly priced with three daily walks and regular photo updates included
  • Staff singled out for practical feedback, like leash suggestions based on a dog's behavior
  • Grooming consistently praised for careful, patient work

Worth knowing

  • Every review and every published service is dog-specific, there's no evidence this facility boards cats, confirm directly before assuming
Reputation scorecardrank in New York
Rating4.8 / 5
Review volume234 · 97th
Confidencehigh
Recency4 months ago
Info completenesssite · phone · hours
Rating breakdown91% 5-star
✓ VerifiedSource: Google

Our take: Puppy Loft has the deepest review record on this list, 234 reviews at 4.8, but it reads as a dedicated dog daycare and boarding operation. If you have a cat, call first rather than assume.

Website+1212-924-9131 Directions

237 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001

Easy Wag FiDi logo
#2🕑 Open 7 days

Easy Wag FiDi

4.9176 Google reviews

Easy Wag FiDi runs dog daycare, boarding, training, walking, and grooming from two Manhattan locations, Financial District and the Upper West Side. Its site and reviews focus entirely on dogs, training sessions and grooming for named dogs feature heavily, with no cat services mentioned.

What people praise

  • Reviewers describe staff as attentive, communicative, and clearly experienced with anxious or reactive dogs
  • Named groomers and trainers praised repeatedly across multiple reviews
  • Boarding reviewers mention regular text and photo updates while away

Worth knowing

  • No published or reviewed evidence of cat boarding, this appears to be a dog-focused operation, confirm before booking a cat
Reputation scorecardrank in New York
Rating4.9 / 5
Review volume176 · 87th
Confidencemoderate
Recency8 weeks ago
Info completenesssite · phone · hours
Rating breakdown98% 5-star
✓ VerifiedSource: Google

Our take: Easy Wag ranks highly on rating, 4.9 across 176 reviews, but like Puppy Loft, everything in its record points to dogs specifically.

Website+1347-495-7578 Directions

124 Nassau St, New York, NY 10038

pupculture Tribeca logo
#3🕑 Open 7 days↩ Responds to reviews

pupculture Tribeca

4.8185 Google reviews

pupculture Tribeca offers daycare, overnight boarding, grooming, and walking from its Hudson Street location, with membership pricing for regular clients. Services and reviews are entirely dog-focused, with no mention of cats in its site content or in the reviews collected here.

What people praise

  • Reviewers describe dogs excited to arrive daily, a good informal signal of a calm, well-run space
  • Grooming praised as patient and professional
  • One reviewer specifically credits the team with accommodating a last-minute boarding request during a work trip

Worth knowing

  • No evidence of cat boarding in its services or reviews, confirm directly if you have a cat
Reputation scorecardrank in New York
Rating4.8 / 5
Review volume185 · 92th
Confidencemoderate
Recency6 weeks ago
Info completenesssite · phone · hours
Rating breakdown92% 5-star
✓ VerifiedSource: Google

Our take: pupculture holds a strong 4.8 average on 185 reviews, but its business is squarely dog daycare and boarding, not a mixed-species facility.

Website+1646-927-1598 Directions

170 Hudson St, New York, NY 10013

Manhattan Pawffice logo
#4🕑 Open 7 days

Manhattan Pawffice

5.0140 Google reviews

Manhattan Pawffice runs dog daycare and boarding from St Marks Place, with indoor and backyard livestream cameras owners can check during the day. Every review references dogs by name, and its listed primary category is dog daycare, with no cat services mentioned anywhere in the available data.

What people praise

  • Reviewers highlight livestream cameras as genuinely reassuring during multi-week boarding stays
  • Staff, including a manager named repeatedly, praised for going above what's expected
  • Described as a smooth transition point for new-to-the-city dog owners

Worth knowing

  • No evidence this facility handles cats, its reviews and services are exclusively dog-focused
Reputation scorecardrank in New York
Rating5 / 5
Review volume140 · 76th
Confidencemoderate
Recency3 months ago
Info completenesssite · phone · hours
Rating breakdown99% 5-star
✓ VerifiedSource: Google

Our take: Manhattan Pawffice shares the top rating on this list, a perfect 5.0 on 140 reviews, but treat it as a dog-only facility until you confirm otherwise by phone.

Website+1929-777-5320 Directions

20 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003

City Tails NYC logo
#5🕑 Open 7 days

City Tails NYC

5.0136 Google reviews

City Tails NYC, in the West Village, is a family-owned operation offering dog walking, daycare, grooming, overnight boarding, and, per its own site, cat visits too. It's the one facility on this list that explicitly states it handles cats, even though its reviews, like the others, are almost entirely about dogs.

What people praise

  • The only business here whose own site explicitly states it offers cat care alongside dog services
  • Reviewers describe reliable, on-time pickup and genuine attentiveness across years of repeat use
  • One customer specifically praises the team's patience working through a rescue dog's behavioral issues
  • Long-tenured clients, some over two to five years, speak to consistency over time

Worth knowing

  • Its cat offering is described as 'visits' on its own site, worth confirming whether that extends to full overnight cat boarding
Reputation scorecardrank in New York
Rating5 / 5
Review volume136 · 61th
Confidencemoderate
Recency3 months ago
Info completenesssite · phone · hours
Rating breakdown100% 5-star
✓ VerifiedSource: Google

Our take: City Tails is the most defensible pick on this list for a cat specifically, backed by a perfect 5.0 across 136 reviews, even though most of that record, like the rest of this page, is written by dog owners.

Website+1347-907-4345 Directions

55 Leroy St, New York, NY 10014

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How we ranked these five

We pulled the live Google rating and review count for every pet boarding business Google’s local data surfaces for ‘cat boarding in New York,’ then weighed the star average against review volume. Because most results returned are dog-first operations, we checked each one’s own site and reviews specifically for cat mentions rather than assuming a pet boarding listing covers every species. No business paid to change any of these numbers.

How much does pet boarding cost in New York? (2026)

None of the five facilities here publish a cat-specific boarding rate we could confidently cite, and general pet boarding pricing in New York varies by neighborhood, length of stay, and whether grooming or extra walks are bundled in. Ask each facility for their current cat rate directly, since several may only offer it informally.

Serving Chelsea to the West Village

These facilities cluster in downtown and lower Manhattan, from Chelsea and the Financial District through Tribeca, the East Village, and the West Village. If you’re searching for cat boarding near me in New York, call ahead, since most of these facilities primarily built their reputation on dogs.

What to ask before boarding your cat

  • Do you board cats overnight, or only dogs?
  • Are cats housed separately from dogs, with their own quiet space?
  • What’s included, feeding, litter changes, playtime, updates?
  • Can I see photos or video of where my cat will actually stay?
  • What’s your policy if my cat needs medication during the stay?
  • How far in advance do I need to book for cat boarding specifically?

Frequently asked questions

Are these rankings paid?

No. Rankings come from public Google data. A business can pay to be a Featured Partner, which adds a badge and top placement, but that never changes another business’s score or position.

Do these facilities actually board cats?

Only City Tails NYC explicitly states on its own site that it offers cat care. The other four read as dog-focused operations based on their services and reviews, so confirm directly before booking a cat anywhere on this list.

How did you choose these five?

We looked at pet boarding businesses that rank in Google’s local data for ‘cat boarding in New York’ with a meaningful number of reviews, then ranked them by rating and review volume.

How often is this updated?

We last checked these ratings and reviews in July 2026. We revisit pages like this regularly so the numbers stay current.

Why do dog daycares show up on a cat boarding search?

Google’s local categories for pet boarding often don’t distinguish by species, so dog-first daycares and cat-friendly facilities can both surface for the same search. We’ve flagged this directly rather than assume every listing serves cats.

The bottom line

City Tails NYC is the safest default if you specifically need cat boarding, it’s the only facility here that states it on its own site, and its 5.0 rating across 136 reviews holds up. For everyone else on this list, call ahead and ask directly. Their review records are excellent, but they’re written almost entirely by dog owners.

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