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.
Central Bark®
Franklin
9550 S 60th St,
Franklin, WI 53132Get Directions
Open Today 6:00 AM – 6:30 PM
Book Now


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
I also really like the retail space here, and the services they offer. I’ve been able to get Ace’s nails trimmed here a few times before pickup which I really appreciate- and they’re the only ones who have been able to do it without him getting nervous!
I appreciate Central Bark Franklin and all that you guys do! Thank you Central Bark team!
Frequently Asked Questions
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.

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® has outdoor facilities complete with swimming pools and cooling systems for the summer.
Absolutely! We strongly encourage all prospective clients to see our facilities firsthand. We believe a tour is the best way to understand what to look for in a dog day care. You can schedule a visit to tour our complete indoor and outdoor play areas and private rest spaces. We want you to feel completely confident and comfortable with our secure environment. You can also explore our facility and get a feel for what a day at Central Bark looks like by viewing the photos and virtual tours on our website.
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.



