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Welcome to Central Bark Landover – Dog Day Care Services
Your bond with your beloved furry friend is truly unique, marked by an unwavering commitment to their well-being. Central Bark Landover is here to support you in ensuring the best for your canine companion. Count on us for top-notch care, ensuring their happiness, health, and overall fulfillment.
Choosing Central Bark Landover brings peace of mind as your dog enjoys quality time in a secure and nurturing environment with their canine buddies. Proudly serving the Landover community, we prioritize a holistic approach to your dog’s well-being, emphasizing health and happiness through our “Enrichment Dog Day Care.” Our services, including dog boarding, grooming, training, and more, are tailored to enhance your lives together.
As fellow dog parents, we treat your cherished family member with utmost care and love. Rest assured that your furry friend will receive exceptional care at Central Bark!
Central Bark
Landover
8513 Ardwick Ardmore Rd,
Landover, MD 20785Get Directions
Open Today 7:00 AM – 6:30 PM
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Jen T.
CANT wait for Central Bark to open! I’ve personally known the owners for years and their knowledge and care for the animals is second to none. I am so excited for their doors to officially open so my pups have their ‘go to’ vacation spot when I’m out of town! [...]
Central Bark® Whole Dog Care
At Central Bark Landover, our dedication remains steadfast in providing top-tier care for your furry friend. Embracing our comprehensive Whole Dog Care approach, we prioritize your canine companion’s well-being across all dimensions—physical, mental, and emotional. Explore our tailored services aimed at elevating your dog’s quality of life and maximizing their enjoyment!
Enrichment Dog Day Care
We aim to enhance your dog’s daily experiences with customized activities, adding an extra dash of excitement to every moment.
Grooming
Pamper your cherished furry companion with carefully curated grooming sessions and delightful interactions.
Boarding
Offer your dog a tranquil and cozy retreat through our Dog Boarding service, ensuring a restful and peaceful stay.
Products
Explore a premium selection of dog essentials, including food, treats, toys, and more, carefully curated to enhance their happiness and health.
Training & Enrichment
Strengthen the bond with your dog through engaging activities and positive training, instilling essential skills and promoting positive behavior.
How to get started
- Click Request Appointment
- Register Online
- We’ll contact you to help
schedule your first visit
Why do dogs LOVE
Central Bark Landover?
At Central Bark Landover, we comprehend the desires and needs of dogs, and that’s precisely why they adore us! Here are some of the reasons:
- Tailored Experiences: Crafted individual days that suit each dog’s unique needs and preferences.
- Complete Well-Being: Our commitment to personalized care, customized activities, and ample rest promotes overall health, happiness, and positive behavior at home and in the community.
- Canine Communication: Our expert team, trained in science-based, positive reinforcement methods, effectively understands and communicates with dogs.
- Safety and Cleanliness: Prioritizing top-tier safety and hygiene, we follow stringent protocols and maintain thorough cleaning routines.
- Trusted Affectionate Care: For over two decades, Central Bark has enhanced dogs’ lives with a balanced mix of attention, play, exercise, socialization, training, relaxation, and affection.
- Lasting Bonds: Witness the remarkable closeness that a day spent apart can foster! Your dog will return home content and in good health, alleviating concerns about leaving them alone.
Dog Day Care. Reimagined.
Elevating beyond conventional dog day care, Enrichment Dog Day Care incorporates cutting-edge insights from dog behavior science and positive training techniques. Tailored for your beloved furry friend, each day is a blend of play, cognitive and physical stimulation, social interaction, training, relaxation, and affection. This comprehensive approach promotes your dog’s overall well-being, happiness, and growth..
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
What do dogs do at doggy day care?
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.
What should I bring to Doggy Day Care?
Once you have enrolled, we will need a copy of your dog’s vaccination records, which you can upload to your online account or bring with you on your scheduled first day. We also ask that your dog comes in on a regular 6-foot flat leash (no retractable or flexi-leads in the lobby) and a quick-release collar. Not sure what a quick-release collar is? No problem! We’ll be happy to show you on your first day. If your dog usually wears a harness while walking, you’re welcome to bring that as well.
If your dog typically eats a midday meal, you can bring it in an airtight container clearly labeled with your dog’s first and last names.
What is Stay-n-Play?
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.
Are the dogs supervised at all times?
ABSOLUTELY