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!
At pickup, they took the time to give us a rundown of how he did throughout the day, which I appreciated. He apparently decided putting his harness back on was optional, and hearing the staff laughing and joking about him behind the door was cute. It was clear they were taking it in stride and treating him with patience.
The reason we chose them is that they incorporate enrichment activities into the day instead of just having dogs running around together for hours. It feels like a very thoughtful approach to daycare, and we’ll be back when we’re in town.
to hang out while mom is at work!
FAQs about Enrichment Dog Day Care in Asheville
Central Bark® Enrichment Doggy Day Care combines our industry-leading doggy day care expertise with the latest science-based activities and techniques. We personalize your dog’s day with fun, healthy, and well-balanced activities that appeal to their instincts and enrich their bodies, minds, and senses.
Each day at Central Bark includes exclusive options like:
- Flexible play groups allow us to match your dog each day 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 help dogs practice important behaviors and life skills like name recall, 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 creates a safer social environment.
- Rest Period Enrichments help dogs 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 and can help them become more comfortable in crates by building positive associations.
- One-on-One Enrichment add-on sessions give your dog the personal attention they love, supplemented with interactive toys, puzzles, and games. Sessions are fun and rewarding, exercise their body and mind, and engage their senses. Add complexity with fitness and agility equipment.
- Training sessions during day care visits help your dog develop essential skills and behaviors like name recall, sit, stay, down, wait, leave-it, door and gate control, and loose-leash walking. Excellent for your dog and easy for you! Your dog will come home tired and well-socialized, with the training and skills they need to be a well-behaved member of your family.
As part of joining the Central Bark® family, our expert staff conducts a thorough behavior assessment at your local Central Bark store. These assessments help ensure that your dog is placed with a playgroup they’re comfortable with so they can play safely every day they’re with us.
This four-day evaluation, while your dog participates in our Enrichment Day Care, assesses your dog’s:
- Comfort and social skills with people
- Social skills and playstyle with other dogs to help determine the playgroup and play schedule they can benefit from the most
- Comfort in both indoor and outdoor play spaces
- Comfort in rest areas and a crate
- Ability to share resources like water and toys in social settings
- Level of comfort taking treats in social settings
This process gives us a chance to get to know you and your dog while your dog gets acquainted with their new favorite place away from home. Through the entire four days, your dog’s comfort and safety is our top priority.
Once your pup passes all the behavior assessment elements, you are welcome to sign up for any of our daycare services or a sleepover!
To schedule a Behavior Assessment for your dog, please contact your local store.
NOTE: Please bring all required signed forms, vaccination proof, and a collar and leash for your behavior assessment.
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.
Our One-on-One Enrichment sessions give your dog the freedom to safely explore their senses with an Enrichment Specialist. They’ll get the personal attention they love, supplemented with interactive toys, puzzles, and games that exercise their bodies and minds. They can also level up their skills with fitness training and agility exercises if they’re ready for more.
Did you know? 15 minutes of mental activity is equal to 30 minutes of physical exercise!
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.
