Asheville
Enrichment Dog Day Care
Dog Day Care. Reimagined.
The bond with your furry friend is unparalleled, but our busy lifestyles can make it tough to meet all their needs for health and happiness. This can result in issues like loneliness, boredom, weight gain, anxiety, and unwanted behaviors at home.
At Central Bark Asheville enrichment doggy day care, your dog finds a safe and loving space to play and learn. Through socialization, mental stimulation, and physical exercise, we provide what their minds and bodies need to stay healthy and happy for life.
Our focus on canine enrichment is designed to elevate your dog’s overall quality of life. Engaging in fun and rewarding activities encourages them to problem-solve, learn new skills, and gain confidence through their senses. Rest assured, your dog is enjoying a fantastic day with their friends. Enrichment Dog Day Care is our expertise, and no one does it quite like us.
A Healthy, Balanced Day
Enrichment Dog Day Care delivers a well-rounded mix of play, exercise, socialization, learning, rest, and tender loving care. Each day is tailored to your dog’s unique needs and preferences, fostering their physical, mental, and sensory well-being. This ensures you have a healthy, happy, calm, and well-rounded companion at home.
- Play, Exercise, and Socialization – Physical activity aids in maintaining a healthy weight and muscle tone, improving mood. Positive interactions with new humans, dogs, and environments contribute to creating well-socialized and content dogs. Our facility offers various playgroups in indoor and outdoor areas, ensuring a suitable social environment based on your dog’s age, personality, and comfort level.
- Rest – Amidst play and socialization, ample opportunities for rest are crucial for your dog’s physical, mental, and emotional health. Our daily schedule prioritizes striking the right balance between rest, play, and learning, steering clear of unhealthy overstimulation.
- Learning – Dogs learn from both humans and fellow dogs, shaping their understanding of appropriate social behavior. Our expert staff utilizes positive training techniques to encourage safe play and support your dog in developing healthy social behaviors.
- Love – Your dog becomes an integral part of our family, receiving all the love and attention they need in your absence. We establish a strong bond with your dog, fostering comfort and confidence. With regular attendance, we become familiar with your dog’s personality, preferences, and needs. This will allow us to notice subtleties such as moods, behavioral changes, or potential health issues.
Commitment to Safety
Ensuring the safety and well-being of our guests is our top priority. As fellow dog parents, we take great pride in treating every dog as part of our own family. Our commitment extends to providing a healthy and secure environment for everyone entering our facility.
Central Bark® Enrichment Dog Day Care Features:
Flexible Group Play
Flexible playgroups allow us to match your dog with the social atmosphere and play schedule they can enjoy and benefit from most. This helps give them a healthy balance of play, rest, and learning and creates a safer social environment with a better quality of play. And our lower dog-to-staff ratios offer more individual attention, education, and love.
Group Play Skills
Interactive group activities and positive reinforcement help dogs practice important skills like name recall, and behaviors like group sit and calmly going in and out of doors and gates. These activities are fun and rewarding for your dog and help improve behavior and impulse control, prevent overstimulation, and create a safer social environment.
Rest Period Enrichment
Your dog gets to relax and recharge in their own private space with calming interactive toys and healthy food pairings tailored to their preferences and diet. It promotes physical and mental relaxation which can help them achieve a healthy balance of play, learning, and rest. It can also help them become more comfortable in crates by building positive associations.
One-on-One Enrichment
Personalized One-on-One Enrichment sessions give your dog the extra attention they love and the freedom to use their senses and safely explore their instincts through interactive toys, puzzles, and games. It’s fun and rewarding and exercise their bodies and minds and engage their senses. Add complexity with fitness and agility equipment.
The staff and other clients are always so pleasant to chat with at drop offs and pickups which makes it feel like a sweet little community. Getting to go pick up Jasper at Central Bark is the best part of our day!
They also can accommodate our busy work schedules with early (6:30am) drop offs and late (7pm) pick ups. We are so grateful for the whole Asheville team!
to hang out while mom is at work!
FAQs about Enrichment Dog Day Care in Asheville
Dog day care gives dogs a fun place to play with their friends while their owners are busy at home and work.
At Central Bark®, doggy daycare is our specialty, and nobody does it quite like us. We don’t just give dogs a place to play. We create a personalized program of activities that optimize your dog’s whole health – their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Central Bark goes beyond a traditional doggy day care with our unique Whole Dog Care philosophy. Our personalized approach helps enrich your dog’s whole health and well-being throughout their entire life so you can enjoy a healthy, happy, and loving life together.
The heart of our whole dog care approach is our Enrichment Doggy Day Care program. We combine Central Bark’s industry-leading doggy day care expertise with the latest dog behavior science. Our mission is to give dogs a balanced blend of exercise, social group play, learning, rest, and TLC. To help your dog be a healthy, happy, calm, and well-rounded member of your family.
Flexible playgroups allow us to match your dog with the social atmosphere and play schedule they can enjoy and benefit from most. This helps give them a healthy balance of play, rest, and learning and creates a safer social environment with a better quality of play. And our lower dog-to-staff ratios offer more individual attention, education, and love.
Step 1: Login
- Click the “Client Login” option found at the bottom of all pages on our website.
- Enter either your email address or phone number that you signed up with
- Click “continue logging in”
- Then enter your password and click “Sign In”
Step 2: Request Services
You will now see the page below. From this page you can do a number of things along with requesting a reservation from the drop downs including editing your information, editing your pet’s info, adding/removing pets, checking your package credits, purchasing package credits, and adding/editing/changing photos.
- Click the blue “request services” button
- In the popup window, click the “Book Day Care or Sleepover Now!” button
Step 3: Select a Service Type
- Scroll down past the notes (after you have read them) until you get to the “Details” section.
- Click on the drop-down in the “Type” row and choose your reservation type.
- Note: Grooming requests cannot be made through the customer portal. Please call to schedule an appointment.
Step 4: Make Your Reservation Request
- Choose the pet or pets you would like to add to this reservation
- Choose the date you are looking for
- You may edit the drop-off and pick-up time from within our open hours, if you know those approximations
- You can set up “recurring dates” for the same day/days each week for a timeframe
- You can add additional reservations for other days at the same time.
Step 5: Add-on Services and Notes
- You may add any additional services (such as enrichment training, training tutor, special meals (outside of lunch), salon and spa services, etc, to their reservation.
- You may add any notes that you would like us to see in the notes box
- You may run an estimate for the total cost of your reservation request (please note that the charges for “additional services” such as salon and spa, may vary from the default that shows in the estimate)
- Once you have added everything you want, click “Save” in the lower right corner
Your Done!
You should see the page below if everything went through correctly. You will get an email confirmation when your reservation has been accepted and confirmed, if you are added to a waitlist, or if it is denied.
We are happy to accommodate your dog’s feeding schedule as part of their “Rest Period Enrichments.” Simply bring their food in pre-portioned containers with clear instructions. Our trained staff will ensure your dog receives their meal in a private, quiet space. We are also experienced in handling a variety of specific needs, including day care for dogs with allergies and medication administration, though additional fees may apply.
Central Bark® Whole Dog Care
Our whole dog care approach offers a full range of fun and personalized products and services. To promote your dog’s physical, mental, and emotional health and happiness throughout their entire life.
