Franklin
Enrichment Dog Day Care
Dog Day Care. Reimagined.
The bond between you and your furry best friend is irreplaceable. However, busy human lifestyles can make it challenging to meet all of our dogs’ needs. This may lead to a range of issues like weight gain, loneliness, anxiety, and undesirable behaviors. At Central Bark® Franklin, we offer enrichment doggy day care.
Day care services provide your dog with a loving place to play and learn. Our program focuses on providing your dog with socialization, mental stimulation, and physical exercise. They need these activities to stay healthy and happy.
Our specialized approach to canine enrichment enhances your dog’s overall quality of life. That’s because we offer fun and rewarding activities that encourage problem-solving, learning new skills, and building confidence. You can rest easy knowing your dog is having a great day with all of their furry friends. With Enrichment Dog Day Care as our specialty, nobody does it quite like Central Bark Franklin.
A Healthy, Balanced Day
Enrichment Dog Day Care is designed to provide a holistic and customized experience that meets the unique needs and preferences of each dog. Our goal is to help you maintain a healthy, happy, calm, and well-rounded dog at home through play, exercise, socialization, learning, rest, and TLC.
Here’s how we achieve this:
- Play, Exercise, and Socialization: We offer small and large playgroups in indoor and outdoor areas, allowing your dog to enjoy the social environment that’s best for their age, personality, and comfort level. Exercise helps maintain a healthy weight and muscle tone, while socialization promotes positive experiences with new humans, dogs, and environments, leading to well-rounded and well-socialized dogs.
- Rest: Rest is crucial for your dog’s physical, mental, and emotional health. Our daily schedule ensures that dogs have opportunities to rest, relax, and recharge, avoiding unhealthy overstimulation and achieving the right balance of play, learning, and rest.
- Learning: Our highly trained staff uses positive training techniques to promote safe play and healthy social behaviors. Dogs learn from humans and other dogs, and our guidance ensures that they practice appropriate social behaviors.
- Love: We treat your dog like family and provide the love and attention they need while you’re away. Through regular attendance, we get to know your dog’s personality, needs, and preferences, allowing us to recognize any changes in behavior or health issues that might otherwise go unnoticed
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.
Ailey is so attentive and takes extra care to make sure each dog has its own great experience, unique to its personality and needs. To be able to walk in and have my dog greeted by name every single day is such a great feeling. They also post pictures of all of the pups every day on their Facebook page. It’s the highlight of my workday checking for the post and looking at how happy my dogs are that day (I call it “puppy time!”).
Dog Grooming is also a godsend that I can drop my dog off and kill two birds with one stone. First, my oldest used to need to go to the vet to get his nails trimmed. The girls at CB have such a good rapport with him, though, that THEY can trim his nails! The groomer is also very good. Whatever shampoo they use smells SO good, and I don’t bring home my pups smelling like wet dog. How awesome is it that I no longer have to schedule separate visits at other locations for these services.
All in all, I highly recommend anyone with a pup, no matter breed or age, bring them into Central Bark. Your dog will get so much fulfillment! Don’t believe me? Looks at how happy my dogs are while at Daycare.
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Our dog socialization day care is built on a unique system of “flexible playgroups” to ensure a safe and positive social environment for every dog. We carefully match your dog with friends based on their age, personality, size, and play style, creating a balanced and stress-free environment. This is especially beneficial for day care for dogs with anxiety or shy puppies, as it provides a low-pressure way for them to build confidence and have a great time.
Nope! We got you covered! Most dogs will not need any bedding for a single day of day care. If your dog is boarding with us, see our Sleepover Guidelines. As far as treats and toys, we have plenty! Please ask about which toy and treat products are available.
At Central Bark®, our goal is to provide a balanced day of play, learning, rest, and love. Learning and mental exercise can happen in various ways, including training activities, brain games, scent work, and more. Our playgroups offer several hours of active playtime paired with learning opportunities during Group Play Skills. This way, dogs have plenty of time to socialize and get their energy out, while also exercising their minds through learning.
During one of your dog’s rest periods throughout the day, they are offered a rest period enrichment activity to stimulate their mind while encouraging healthy rest. These licking and chewing activities involve food rewards, such as frozen peanut butter KONG®. These activities engage their minds while helping foster quality rest.
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.
Training Tutor sessions stimulate the dog’s minds and bodies and help them learn important skills, behaviors, and tricks.
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.
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. The aim is to promote your dog’s physical, mental, and emotional health and happiness throughout their entire life.
