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
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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
Commitment to Safety
Ensuring the safety and well-being of our guests is our top priority. As fellow dog parents, we understand the importance of treating each dog with the same care and attention as our own. We are dedicated to maintaining a healthy and secure environment for all who come to our facility.
Central Bark 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.
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Paul DeArment Jr 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.
Of course! You are welcome to visit and tour the center before enrolling. Please visit our locations section to find the Central Bark Doggy Day Care location that is nearest to you.
Central Bark® has outdoor facilities complete with swimming pools and cooling systems for the summer.
Selecting the right doggy day care is an important decision for you and your family. You want to make sure you find the right fit for your dog and your family’s needs. Follow these tips to find the perfect place for your pup!
Tour the day care center before leaving your dog there. We recommend visiting several centers in your area before making a final decision.
While you’re there, ask yourself:
- Is the play space clean, odor-free, comfortable, and safe for the center’s stated capacity?
- Pay attention to how the management and staff treat you, your dog, and the dogs in their care. Are they mature, knowledgeable, courteous, professional, and patient at all times?
- Note how the dogs respond to the staff – do they seem happy, relaxed, and excited? How do staff members greet and treat each dog?
- How do other dogs act during your visit – relaxed, happy, stressed, scared, or out of control?
- Is there a great deal of noise?
- Does the facility seem well organized and equipped with essential tools and supplies? Look for access to fresh, clean water, sanitation tools, ready access to treats to reinforce good behavior in playgroups, toys, secure fencing, rubber flooring in the inside play spaces, and access to outdoor play spaces.
- Are there enough crates for every dog on-site in case of an emergency?
- Are the dogs ever left alone together without a staff member present?
- Are the handlers engaged with the dogs in their care and actively working with them? Or are they sitting on the sidelines?
Questions to ask the doggy day care provider:
- Will my dog get individual attention time with staff?
Ask if staff will have time to work individually with your dog on behaviors, play with them, and give them support and love while at day care. - Are there small group play options?
Small playgroup options help ensure your dog will have a social environment that allows them the freedom and comfort to thrive based on their unique needs, preferences, and play styles. - What’s the daily schedule? Is this tailored to my dog’s unique needs and preferences?
Dogs thrive on routine, so the center should have a clear schedule for how things run every day. A consistent program tailored to your dog’s individual needs and style will promote a healthy and happy dog. - Are there regularly scheduled playtimes and nap times throughout the day?
Day care should offer your dog a safe and balanced day of play, learning, rest, and love so you can look forward to a happy, well-balanced dog at the end of every day. - How and where are the dogs’ given downtime to wind down from the day’s activities to help prevent exhaustion and overstimulation?
Maintaining a healthy balance of rest and play is important for the physical, mental, and social health of dogs. Just like human athletes, rest helps dogs avoid bodily injury and provides a space for them to unwind, so they do not become over-stimulated or over-aroused during play. This creates a much safer social environment for dogs. - Are there fenced and secure outdoor play areas?
Safe outdoor areas are important for a healthy, fun playtime. Whether it is romping in the snow or playing in swimming pools, everyone loves recess outside! - How are new dog introductions handled?
The center should clearly outline their procedures around new dog introductions, with effective policies that encourage happy, healthy, and lasting relationships and experiences. - What training does the staff receive?
Doggy day care staff should be professionally trained and educated in animal behavior, socialization, and obedience training to ensure every dog’s well-being. - Are the dogs supervised at all times?
A trained staff member should ALWAYS supervise dogs. - Ask about behavior management tools used at the facility while caring for the dogs. What happens if your dog does something right? What happens if your dog does something wrong?
Staff should use positive reinforcement and reward-based techniques to develop and reinforce behaviors that will enrich dogs’ lives at home and day care. Avoid centers that use punishment or correction to manage dog’s behavior as those techniques can create negative associations and fear. Utilizing reward-based techniques and positive reinforcement, on the other hand, can help build healthy relationships and happy experiences. - What provisions are there for avoiding dog scuffles?
Ask staff how they manage the dogs in their care. What do they look for in dog-dog interactions? How do they deal with emergencies and scuffles? How do they interrupt and redirect dogs? How do they build useful playgroup skills to keep the dogs safe proactively? Pay attention to how staff redirects dogs who need additional support to stay safe and whether they respond promptly and use effective strategies in these situations. - Is there an in-depth interview to determine relevant background, behavioral, and health information including confirmation of spay/neuter, proof of vaccinations, flea and tick prevention, etc.? How is this information kept up to date?
Find out what kind of assessments and evaluations the center uses before they accept a new dog. Also, every dog’s information should be regularly updated and kept on file to prevent illness and injuries. - Do they have safety, cleaning, and disinfecting policies and procedures? What are they?
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.
