
Tampa
Enrichment Dog Day Care
Tampa Dog Day Care. Reimagined.
The special bond you share with your furry companion is truly unparalleled. However, the demands of our busy lives can sometimes pose challenges in meeting all their needs for happiness and activity. This can result in issues like loneliness, boredom, weight problems, anxiety, and undesirable behavior at home. That’s where Central Bark® Tampa’s doggy day care services come into play.
We provide a secure and nurturing environment where your dog can engage in play and learning. Through social interaction, mental stimulation, and physical activity, we promote their overall well-being, ensuring a lifetime of vitality and contentment.
Our primary focus is on enhancing your dog’s overall quality of life through canine enrichment. Engaging and enjoyable activities improve their problem-solving abilities, help them acquire new skills, and boost their self-confidence. Rest assured, your dog spends a fulfilling day with their canine companions, providing you with peace of mind.
Enrichment Dog Day Care is our specialty, and our approach sets us apart in this endeavor.
Central Bark
Tampa
14623 N Nebraska Ave,
Tampa, FL 33613Get Directions
Closed Drop off/Pick up sleepover dogs only 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM & 6:00 PM – 6:15 PM
Grooming – CLOSED
Daycare – CLOSED


A Healthy Balanced Day
In our Tampa, FL doggy day care service, we offer a seamless blend of play, physical activity, socialization, educational opportunities, relaxation, and gentle care. Each day is carefully tailored to match your dog’s individual preferences and requirements, fostering their physical, mental, and sensory well-being.
- Play, Exercise, and Socialization: Involve your dog in physical activities to maintain a healthy weight, build muscle tone, boost their spirits, and direct their energy positively. We offer diverse playgroups customized for various sizes, both indoors and outdoors, promoting appropriate social interactions.
- Rest: Amidst play and socialization, we ensure your dog enjoys ample time to rest, relax, and recharge. Our thoughtfully designed daily schedule strikes the perfect balance between periods of rest, play, and learning.
- Learning: Dogs learn from both humans and their fellow canine companions. Our expert staff utilizes positive training methods to encourage safe play and help your dog master healthy social behaviors during their day care experience.
- Affection: Your dog becomes a cherished member of our Tampa, FL doggy day care community, receiving abundant love and care while you’re away. We build a strong bond with your dog to provide comfort and confidence, gaining a deep understanding of their personality, needs, and preferences through regular attendance.
Commitment to Safety
Ensuring the safety and well-being of your dog is our utmost priority. As fellow dog parents, we extend to every canine guest the same level of care and attention that we provide to our own. Our unwavering commitment revolves around creating a secure and nurturing environment for all who enter our facility.











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.

It’s easy! Just find your local store and click Enroll Now to create your online account and complete our online registration form or call the location to speak with an associate.
To speed up the registration process, please have available: veterinarian contact information, an emergency contact (other than yourself or your partner), pet information & medical history, and credit card information (optional). We will ask you a series of questions about your dog’s training and social history. These questions help us get to know them and provide the best care possible.
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.
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.
Central Bark Whole Dog Care
Our whole dog care approach offers a full range of fun and personalized products and services. To promote your dog’s physical, mental, and emotional health and happiness throughout their entire life.