Up on the hill since the 1950s.
Hillcrest Kennel opened at 3541 Dickerson Pike back when Dickerson Pike was a two-lane road out of downtown Nashville and the neighborhood was mostly open land. More than seventy years later, the kennel is still here. Same address, same purpose.
Hillcrest has been passed down like a piece of Nashville itself, from the previous owners who ran the kennel for more than twenty years to our family, who've carried it forward for another twenty-plus. What's never changed is who this place serves: generations of Nashville pet families who come back year after year, decade after decade.
We've cared for dogs whose grandparents boarded here decades ago. The parents who kept coming after them. And now, their grown kids, with dogs of their own.
Nashville has changed a lot. Dickerson Pike now runs through a busy North Nashville neighborhood. The downtown skyline has filled in. What hasn't changed is how we care for dogs and cats: small dedicated staff who learn every guest's name, indoor-outdoor climate-controlled runs year-round, and real attention, not assembly-line animal care.
If your parents boarded their dog with us, we'd love to take care of yours too.
The Hillcrest Kennel family
