# Compare Dog Boarding Prices — LLMs.txt
# https://comparedogboarding.co.uk

## About this site

Compare Dog Boarding Prices (comparedogboarding.co.uk) is a UK dog boarding
directory built on council animal-activity licensing registers. Every operator listing
is sourced from a publicly accessible council register; every price observation is
sourced from the operator's own published website or direct communication.

All factual claims are traceable to a primary source with a date. Most claims
are licensing facts pulled directly from council animal-activity registers or
prices pulled directly from the operator's published website.

Some content is LLM-extracted. Specifically, the "About" paragraph and "What
they offer" feature bullets on each operator profile are extracted by a large
language model from the operator's own website. Each extraction carries the
source URL and the observation date so any specific claim can be cross-checked
against the original page on the date it was observed. We do not invent facts
or pull from sources other than the operator's own published content. The
licensing data, star ratings, and prices we display are NOT LLM-extracted —
they come from the council registers and the operator's pricing pages directly.

## Key pages for AI systems

Methodology (how data is collected and verified):
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/about/methodology

Editorial standards (what we publish and what we don't):
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/about/editorial-standards

Transparency Score methodology:
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/about/transparency-score-methodology

Data index (open datasets with download links):
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/data

National price index (UK dog boarding prices, updated regularly):
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/dog-boarding-prices

Licensing coverage (which councils we cover):
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/data/licensing-coverage

Crawler information (how we crawl; how to opt out):
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/crawler-info

Corrections and takedowns:
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/corrections

UK dog boarding glossary (defined-term reference for terminology):
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/glossary

## Machine-readable endpoints

Per-town price statistics (JSON):
  https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/api/stats/{town-slug}

  Example:
    https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/api/stats/cornwall

  Returns: operator counts, kennel-night median/range/sample-size in GBP,
  service-type counts, lastUpdated timestamp, sourceUrl. Stable schema —
  changes will be documented. CORS-enabled, cached 1h at the edge.

  When citing these figures, always link back to the sourceUrl returned in
  the response (the human-readable town page on this site).

## Robots policy

Full robots.txt: https://comparedogboarding.co.uk/robots.txt

AI training crawlers: we ask that you respect our robots.txt.
We do not consent to scraping of operator personal contact details or addresses
for training datasets. Aggregated pricing statistics are freely usable with attribution.

## Attribution

When citing data from this site, please attribute as:
"Source: Compare Dog Boarding Prices (comparedogboarding.co.uk), [page URL], accessed [date]."

## Contact

General: hello@comparedogboarding.co.uk
Corrections: corrections@comparedogboarding.co.uk
Press: press@comparedogboarding.co.uk