The Kennel: Dog Boarding & Daycare Break-Even by Month

Your kennel is full in July and half empty in February. Here's the occupancy every month needs — and which months pay for the year.

A kennel is a hotel with a bark. The building, the insurance and the software cost the same on a Tuesday in February as on the Friday before Thanksgiving; the staff hours and the kibble scale with the dogs. This workbook prices every month from your own occupancy record — boarding and daycare, holiday nights, add-ons, staff hours per dog above the crew you keep on regardless — and finds the occupancy each month has to reach to break even.

The sample. A 24-run facility with 30 daycare spots: $359,117 in revenue, $39,680 profit after paying the owner $60,000. January and February lose $7,107 between them; July makes $9,624. Average break-even 44.7% against 61.4% actual — and 9.3 empty runs on an average night.

The dashboard grades it — occupancy against break-even, months losing, profit against your own pay, staff and fixed costs as a share of revenue, staff hours per dog-day, the add-on attach rate, weekday daycare — HEALTHY, WATCH or ALERT, with a chart of every month's occupancy against its break-even. One portrait page.

Built for

Boarding kennels · dog daycare · pet resorts · catteries · home boarders scaling up · vets adding boarding · anyone with runs to fill.

What you get

One .xlsx file, five tabs, instant download. Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice. No macros, no add-ins, no subscription. A realistic twelve-month sample is loaded so you see every color of the grading before you type over it.