Web design for pet businesses
Astra Labs designs custom websites for dog groomers in a shop, at home or in a van, dog trainers, home boarding and daycare, and small vet practices. You pay $499 one time for up to five pages: $99 to start and $400 when you love the result, before it goes live. The site is built from your own photos of the dogs you look after, shows clear prices by size or service, and ends in the way you already take bookings, from a text message to Square Appointments.
Nobody books a groomer, a trainer or a stranger's spare room for their dog on price alone. They look for signs that the dog will be safe, calm and happy. These points come from the groomers, trainers, boarding homes and the vet practice we designed for this autumn, and from what their old sites showed and left out.
Every business here had its own photos of dogs in its care: finished grooms in bandanas, guest dogs asleep on the sofa, recall training in a field. Yet more than half of the sites we could review leaned on stock puppies. Owners want to see your dogs, your room and your hands at work.
Groomers price by size and coat, boarding by day, night and number of dogs, trainers by programme. Where prices were published they often sat in a plain table or a printed card photographed for social media. A simple size or stay picker that shows the real price removes the most common question.
For daycare and boarding, the day itself is the product: drop off time, walks, rest, the photo updates owners love. For a mobile groomer, it is the van parking outside and the dog skipping the car ride. For a vet, a slow, quiet visit. Describe it step by step.
Licences, insurance, vaccination rules, deposits, temperament checks and first visit assessments build trust when stated calmly, in one place, rather than in downloadable forms.
Some of these businesses used Square or a pet care portal, others took bookings by text or posted open slots on Facebook. The site should follow your way of working, not force a new one.
Mobile groomers and trainers who visit homes are asked one thing before anything else: do you come to me? A map or a postcode check on the first screen saves both sides a message.
We read the websites and social pages of 13 pet care businesses we designed for in October 2026, in the US, the UK and Canada: groomers, mobile groomers, a pet dental hygiene service, dog trainers, home boarding and daycare, and a vet practice. On 1 November 2026 we opened each homepage again on a phone. With a group this small, these are observations rather than industry figures.
The pattern was consistent. Pet businesses are rich in real pictures, because owners love seeing their dog after a groom or during a stay, and most of these businesses post them every week. On their websites those pictures were usually missing. In their place were template layouts from WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Square Online or Google Sites, often with stock photos and a contact page.
Homepages were light compared with other trades: the median download on a phone was 1.46 MB across 10 homepages we could measure. Lightness was rarely the issue; showing the work and the price was.
Method: our review notes describe each business's current site in writing; we counted notes that mention stock or generated images and placeholder content. Phone checks opened each homepage once at 390 pixels wide. See the full method.
None of these businesses asked to be named, so we give the service and the area only. Each design was built from their own photos, prices and way of booking.
Every pet business site we make includes these.
We go through your camera roll, Facebook and Google listing and choose the photos that make owners smile, sized so they load quickly on a phone.
A picker for size and coat, nights and number of dogs, or the dog's age, showing your real prices and add-ons.
Square Appointments, MoeGo, Gingr, Time To Pet or a pet care portal stay as they are. If you book by text or WhatsApp, the site writes the message for the owner.
Vaccinations, deposits, licences, insurance and first visit steps written clearly, with your own forms linked where you need them.
For mobile groomers and home trainers, a map or postcode check that says straight away whether you visit them.
Add this week's best grooms, change prices or post open slots from your phone.
One fixed price for the whole site. A $99 deposit gets the design under way, and the remaining $400 is due once the site is exactly how you want it, before it goes live on your domain.
One time. No subscription unless you choose hosting.
We work on it with you until you love it. If you still do not, you get a full refund.
With Astra Labs a complete site of up to five pages is $499 one time: $99 to start and $400 when you love it, before it goes live. There is no monthly fee unless you want us to host and care for it at $30 a month.
No. Many of the groomers we work with book by text. The site's buttons open a message already filled in with the dog's size, the service and a preferred day, so you get everything you need in the first message.
Yes. We turn your price list into a simple picker for size, coat or number of nights. You can update the prices yourself from your dashboard whenever they change.
Yes. We add a map of the towns or postcodes you cover, so owners see at once whether you come to them, and their area goes into the booking message.
Yes. A small shop of up to 10 products is $199, with payments going straight to your own account. For up to 100 products, a full shop is $499 on top of the site.
Yes. Your domain stays in your name and your email carries on as before. If you have no domain yet, we register one for you in your name, with the first year included.
Put those moments on a site of your own. $499 for everything, $99 to start.