Fort Walton Beach
Dog Boarding

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.

Step 1: Login

1. Click the “Client Login” option found at the bottom of all pages on our website. 
2. Enter either your email address or phone number that you signed up with 
3. Click “continue logging in”
4. 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.

1. Click the blue “request services” button 
2. In the popup window, click the “Book Day Care or Sleepover Now!” button 

Step 3:  Select a Service Type

1. Scroll down past the notes (after you have read them) until you get to the “Details” section. 
2. Click on the drop-down in the “Type” row and choose your reservation type. 
3. Note: Grooming requests cannot be made through the customer portal. Please call to schedule an appointment.

Step 4: Make Your Reservation Request

1. Choose the pet or pets you would like to add to this reservation 
2. Choose the date you are looking for 
3. 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

1. 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. 
2. You may add any notes that you would like us to see in the notes box 
3. 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) 
4. 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. 

Boarding service pricing may vary by service and location, as well as the length of stay.

Learn more about Sleepovers at Central Bark.

Our Stay-n-Play program offers boarding for dogs that have not enrolled in our day care program. Each overnight guest gets a restful night’s sleep, followed by a day of play, exercise, and plenty of TLC from our staff. Stay-n-Play guests sleep and play in their own designated areas. 

Learn more about our Stay-n-Play boarding service.