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Welcome to Central Bark Fort Walton Beach
The bond we share with our furry companions is incomparable. Our love for dogs drives us to provide them with the utmost care and support. Still, meeting all their needs can pose challenges. That’s where Central Bark steps in, a trusted choice for families seeking comprehensive care for their beloved pets.
At Central Bark Fort Walton Beach, your dog will thrive in a secure and affectionate environment, spending quality time with their canine companions.
Our holistic approach, known as Whole Dog Care, is designed to promote your dog’s overall health and happiness. Central to this philosophy is our Enrichment Dog Day Care program, which focuses on nurturing your dog’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being. In addition to day care, we offer a range of services including boarding, grooming, training, and more. They are all aimed at enhancing the bond between you and your dog.
Recognizing that dogs are not merely pets but integral members of the family, we treat every dog with the same love and dedication as if they were our own. As fellow dog parents, we take pride in providing a personalized experience for each furry friend entrusted to our care.
Central Bark
Fort Walton Beach
35 Miracle Strip Pkwy SW,
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548Get Directions
fortwaltonbeach@centralbarkusa.com
Open Today 6:30 AM – 6:30 PM
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Central Bark® Whole Dog Care
Our comprehensive Whole Dog Care approach provides an extensive array of tailored products and services. All are aimed at fostering your dog’s lifelong physical, mental, and emotional well-being and joy.
Enrichment Dog Day Care
Elevate your dog’s daily routine with tailor-made activities crafted exclusively for their enjoyment, injecting excitement into every moment.
Grooming
Treat your cherished companion to a lavish grooming experience, ensuring they remain content and impeccably groomed.
Boarding
Provide your dog with a serene and snug retreat through our Dog Boarding service, offering them a tranquil escape for ultimate relaxation.
Products
Browse through our curated collection of premium dog products, from nourishing foods to engaging toys, to keep your canine companion healthy.
Training & Enrichment
Deepen your connection with your furry friend through engaging positive training sessions and enriching activities designed to strengthen your bond.
Why do dogs LOVE
Central Bark?
- Tailored Just for Them: Every dog is unique, and we recognize and cater to their individual needs and preferences.
- Whole Health and Happiness: Our focus is on providing personalized attention, activities, and rest to ensure your dog’s overall well-being. This promotes good health, happiness, and positive behavior both at home and in the community.
- Fluent in Dog: Our staff are experts in understanding canine behavior, trained in science-based positive reinforcement techniques to communicate effectively with your furry friend.
- Safety and Cleanliness: We prioritize the safety and welfare of all our guests. Rigorous safety protocols and cleaning procedures are in place to maintain a healthy and secure environment for your dog.
- Trusted Care: For over two decades, families have relied on Central Bark to enrich their dogs’ lives with a perfect balance of personalized attention, play, exercise, socialization, training, rest, and affection.
- Strengthened Bond: A day spent apart can strengthen the bond between you and your dog. With us, your pet returns home happy and healthy, alleviating any worries about leaving them home alone.
Dog Day Care. Reimagined.
Experience Dog Day Care like never before with Central Bark Enrichment Dog Day Care. We’re revolutionizing the concept by blending our unmatched expertise with cutting-edge dog behavior science and positive training techniques. Your furry friend will indulge in a customized day filled with just the right balance of play, mental and physical stimulation, socialization, training, relaxation, and affection, ensuring they emerge as healthier, happier, and more well-rounded companions.
Flexible Playgroups
Small and large playgroup options allow us to match better your dog’s personality, needs, and preferences with the social atmosphere and amount of play they can enjoy and benefit from most.
Group Play Skills
Group Play Skills are a fun and rewarding way for dogs to practice important skills like name recall, and behaviors like group sit and calmly going in and out of doors and gates.
Rest Period Enrichment
Rest Period Enrichment sessions help dogs achieve a healthy balance. They can relax and recharge in their own private space with calming enrichment toys and healthy foods tailored to their preferences and diet.
Enrichment Sessions
Personalized One-on-One Enrichment sessions give the extra attention dogs love and the freedom to use their senses and safely explore their instincts through interactive toys, puzzles, and games.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rest periods can be paired with fun and interactive food toys (like a frozen peanut butter Kong) to create a rest period enrichment activity for your dog.
Not only are rest period enrichments fun and mentally stimulating for your dog, but they also help build positive associations and crating skills. Hence, dogs are calmer, quieter, and more relaxed. For dogs, being comfortable in a crate is a life skill that is incredibly useful for them and their owners.
Did you know? Scientific studies have shown that licking and chewing behaviors (especially those that involve food rewards!) are self-soothing, decrease heart and respiratory rates, and even release dopamine in a dog’s brain.
There’s no bond like the one between our furry best friends and us. We love our dogs and want to give them the best life possible. But it can be challenging to fulfill all their needs to stay healthy and happy for a lifetime. Doggy day care gives pups a place to play and learn in a safe environment, with the socialization, mental stimulation, and physical exercise their minds and bodies need to stay healthy for a lifetime.
- Dogs get to socialize. Dogs are social creatures. Positive experiences with new humans, new dogs, and new environments are essential to a well-rounded pup.
- Dogs learn social skills. Dogs learn from other dogs – they’re always teaching each other what is (and isn’t) appropriate social behavior. Doggy day care staff can also help support safe play and practice healthy social behaviors.
- Dogs get more exercise. Exercise helps your dog maintain a healthy weight and muscle tone while improving their mood and providing a healthy outlet for their physical and mental energy, meaning they can be more relaxed at home.
- Dogs get human attention. Your dog will get the care and love they need while you’re at work or school.
- Parents get a break. Doggy day care can give you a day off from responsibilities, while your dog gets what they need to be a healthier, more well-adjusted pet.
Dog grooming helps keep your dog clean, healthy, and comfortable. It can include anything from a simple brush-out or bath to a full spa day, complete with a grooming session and nail care.
All dogs are unique. Just like humans, your dog deserves personalized grooming for their size, breed, coat type, and condition. Please ask an associate for details.
Make a reservation for your dog’s grooming session.
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.
