Poughkeepsie
Enrichment Dog Day Care
Dog Day Care in Poughkeepsie. Reimagined.
Having a furry best friend is special, but our busy lives can make it hard to keep them happy and healthy. This can lead to problems like boredom, loneliness, weight gain, and bad behavior at home.
At Central Bark® Poughkeepsie’s enrichment doggy daycare, we offer a safe and fun place for your dog to play and learn. Activities like socializing, games, and exercise help keep dogs’ minds and bodies strong and happy.
Our main goal is to improve your dog’s life in every way. We do this through fun activities that help dogs learn and feel confident. You can relax knowing your dog is having a great time with its friends. Enrichment Dog Day Care is what we’re best at, and nobody does it better than us.
Central Bark®
Poughkeepsie
15 Burnett Boulevard,
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603Get Directions
poughkeepsie@centralbarkusa.com
Closed 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM &
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
(Drop off/Pick-up)
(Training By Appointment Only)
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A Healthy Balanced Day
Enrichment Dog Day Care offers a mix of play, exercise, making friends, learning, relaxing, and love. We customize each day to fit your dog’s likes and needs. This helps keep their body, mind, and senses healthy, so you can have a happy, calm, and well-behaved dog at home.
- Play, Exercise, and Making Friends – Playing and exercising helps your dog stay fit and happy. It also helps them release energy and feel more relaxed later. Meeting new people, dogs, and exploring new places helps them become social and friendly. We have different play areas for dogs of different sizes and personalities.
- Rest — After all the fun, dogs need to rest and recharge. Our schedule ensures that dogs get enough rest, play, and learn without getting too tired.
- Learning – Dogs learn from us and from other dogs. Our trained staff use positive methods to teach good behavior and help dogs learn to play safely.
- Love – When your dog is with us, it becomes part of our family. We give it all the attention and care it needs. By spending time with it regularly, we get to know its personality and can spot any changes or problems early on.
Commitment to Safety
The safety and happiness of our guests are our top concerns. We’re dog parents too, so we treat every dog like they’re part of our family. We promise to keep our place safe and healthy for everyone who comes here.
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.
Originally I wasn’t sure if I needed to be a member to utilize their services, but I mustered up the courage to fill out their form online and within minutes someone, a real person, reached out to me. Lovely conversation, I explained that my two dogs need grooming but in the long term will need boarding and we need help training them.
My 2 dogs can be a handful. 80 pound coonhound who thinks he 30 and a pointer mix who is ornery at times. CentralBark did amazing. From dropping them off, to picking them up, my 2 dogs seemed less crazed, and more at ease. The communication was amazing, love that they text!
Just got home from the grooming appointment. The dogs look great and weren’t as shaken as taking them elsewhere. I also left with a training consult later in October. Amazing!
I love it, my dog loves it!
Frequently Asked Questions
Our One-on-One Enrichment sessions give your dog the freedom to safely explore their senses with an Enrichment Specialist. They’ll get the personal attention they love, supplemented with interactive toys, puzzles, and games that exercise their bodies and minds. They can also level up their skills with fitness training and agility exercises if they’re ready for more.
Did you know? 15 minutes of mental activity is equal to 30 minutes of physical exercise!
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.
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!
Our top priority is the safety of every dog in our care. Our staff members are not only highly trained but also “fluent in dog speak,” which means they can read canine body language and behavior cues. Our rigorous dog day care safety protocols use a science-based positive reinforcement approach to constantly monitor and manage play. We believe in proactive and preventative care, working to de-escalate potential issues before they start, which is a key part of how dog day care handles disagreements and maintains a secure environment for all dogs.
Central Bark® Whole Dog Care
Our approach to whole dog care in Poughkeepsie includes a wide range of fun and personalized products and services. We aim to keep your dog physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy and happy throughout their life.
