West Palm Beach
Enrichment Doggy Day Care 

West Palm Beach Doggy Day Care. Reimagined.

The bond you share with your cherished furry friend is truly exceptional. However, the rapid pace of modern life can sometimes present challenges in meeting all the needs of our dogs for a joyful and healthy life. These challenges can lead to issues at home, including loneliness, boredom, weight gain, anxiety, and unwanted behaviors. This is precisely where Central Bark® West Palm Beach Enrichment Doggy Day Care comes into play.

We offer a safe and affectionate environment where your dog can play and learn. Through social interaction, mental stimulation, and physical exercise, we provide the essential elements for their lifelong well-being and happiness.

Our goal is to enhance your dog’s quality of life through canine enrichment. We offer enjoyable and enriching activities that engage their senses, encourage problem-solving, develop new skills, and boost their confidence.

You can have peace of mind knowing that your dog is enjoying a fantastic day with their companions. As specialists in Enrichment Doggy Day Care in West Palm Beach, we take pride in establishing a unique standard in this field.

Central Bark
West Palm Beach

1503 Elizabeth Ave,
West Palm Beach, FL 33401Get Directions

(561) 513-8997

Open Today 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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A Healthy Balanced Day

Our mission is to improve dogs’ physical, mental, and sensory well-being, ensuring that you have a companion at home who is content, joyful, serene, and well-rounded.

  • Play, Exercise, and Socialization: Physical activity aids in keeping your dog’s weight in check and muscles robust. It additionally elevates their spirits and offers an avenue for expending energy, leading to a calmer disposition at home. Our offerings encompass secure indoor and outdoor play areas, with both small and large playgroups tailored to your dog’s age, temperament, and comfort.
  • Rest: Rest is a vital component of your dog’s physical, mental, and emotional health. Following play and social interaction, they require moments of relaxation and rejuvenation. Our daily routine emphasizes a harmonious blend of rest, play, and learning, ensuring optimal well-being by averting overstimulation and fostering holistic health.
  • Learning: Dogs acquire skills from people and other canines; our knowledgeable staff helps them through constructive training methods. They instruct your dog in safe play and promote beneficial relationships. Dogs at our daycare facility in Sussex continuously learn new habits and social skills from their fellow dogs.
  • Love: As your dog joins our family, they receive abundant love and care during your absence. We forge a strong connection to instill comfort and confidence. Through consistent visits, we become well-acquainted with their traits, requirements, and likes. This enables us to discern even subtle shifts like mood, behavior, or potential health matters that might otherwise evade notice.

Commitment to Safety

Ensuring the safety and well-being of your dog is our priority. As fellow dog guardians, we deeply understand the importance of treating each and every dog as a beloved family member. Our dedication revolves around creating a secure and nurturing environment for all those who step into our facility.

Highly Trained and Caring Staff
Facility Design
Deep Cleaning + Disinfection
Health Requirements
Dog Behavior Assessments
Consistent Attendance

Central Bark® Enrichment Day Care Features:

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Flexible Group Play

Our flexible playgroups match your dog with the ideal social setting and play routine, maximizing their enjoyment and benefit. This ensures a balanced mix of play, relaxation, and learning, creating a safer social environment and improved play quality. Additionally, our lower dog-to-staff ratios ensure more individual attention, education, and affection.

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Group Play Skills

Group activities and positive reinforcement aid dogs in practicing crucial skills like name recall and behaviors such as group sit and door interactions. These enjoyable activities enhance behavior, impulse control, and prevent overstimulation, creating a safer social environment.

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Rest Period Enrichment

Offering a private space with soothing interactive toys and customized healthy food combinations, your dog finds relaxation and rejuvenation. This fosters physical and mental relaxation, contributing to a balanced blend of play, learning, and rest. It also cultivates a positive crate association, enhancing comfort.

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One-on-One Enrichment

Customized One-on-One Enrichment sessions offer your dog personalized attention and the opportunity to indulge their senses and explore their instincts with interactive toys, puzzles, and games. These sessions are enjoyable and rewarding, providing physical and mental exercise while engaging their senses. Enhance the challenge with fitness and agility equipment.

Canine Cab Shuttle Service

Our Canine Cab shuttle service offers safe and convenient pick-up and drop-off services to help you get your dog to and from their day at day care. Also, we can make deliveries for market purchases. This service can be scheduled as part of your package or arranged on an as-needed basis.

Please schedule in person or over the phone, at least 24 hours in advance.

Pricing

Weekly Member Plans

1 day per week 34 (34/day)
2 days per week64 (32/day)
3+ days per week93+ (31/day)
Learn more about our Enrichment Day Care Membership Program.

Member Perks:

  • Preferred scheduling.
  • Reduced member pricing for Enrichment Day Care and Sleepovers.
  • 5% off on all Whole Dog Care in-store retail purchases, including dog food!
  • Membership plan credits can be used for multiple dogs in the same family and applied toward sleepover stays.

Non-Member

Schedule & Pay As You Go
Reservations are subject to availability.
38/day

Additional Services

Behavior Assessment
One-time, nonrefundable fee due on the first day.
All dogs, member and non-member, must pass a behavior assessment and attend at least once per week for enrollment in our day care program. 
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Day-n-Play
Day care offered to our guests for dogs that are not part of our day care program. Guests will play in their own areas to help keep all our furry friends safe and comfortable. This includes a day of play, exercise and plenty of TLC from our staff.
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Training & Enrichment Add-ons

Enrichment Circuit Training
Circuit of three, 30-minute sessions with our Enrichment Specialist and a group of just five dogs. Sessions include Small Group Play, Canine Fitness and Agility, and Semi-Private Training Tutor. Learn more
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Training Tutor
Individual training session during day care visit. Practice behavior skills like sit, stay, lay down, leave it, loose-leash walking, and tricks.
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One-on-One Enrichment
A personalized session with interactive toys, puzzles, and games that exercise their body and mind.
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Rest Period Enrichment
One Rest Period Enrichment included with day care visit. Extra sessions can be added.
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If you have any concerns about food sensitivities or destructive tendencies, please speak to an associate at the front desk to discuss available options.

Additional fees may apply for special requests.
$1/min late fee applied after 6:30pm.

Alexandra M.
The staff is super friendly and they really care about the dogs, all of them know the name of my puppy and they give me comments about how she's doing in group play or during naps, I love how personalized the attention is and I can tell that Freya (my [...]
Kristen H.
A friend recommended Central Bark for doggy daycare, and we couldn't be happier!! Our dog, Carly, absolutely loves it!!! She is a chocolate lab that has endless energy (her nickname is Crazy Carlykins). It's easy to see how passionate the staff and new owner, Lindsay, are about the pups. It’s [...]
Lindsay H.
I am so happy with this place, and so is my sweet Tilly!! The staff is so friendly, and I feel like I can trust them with my baby. I know the new owners recently took over but have owned and operated a day care for years. I have tried [...]
Lauren B.
We've been taking Billy here for the past 5 months and he absolutely loves it! The staff here are friendly, caring and skilled. You can tell they build loving relationships with all the dogs that visit. The facility is always clean and are in the process of remodeling inside and [...]
Kiersten M.
My pup loves Central Bark West Palm Beach! The owners and staff are great people; they do a wonderful job keeping the place clean and all the dogs safe. I highly recommend Central Bark West Palm Beach.

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.

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How to choose the best day care for your dog

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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. 
  3. 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. 
  4. 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. 
  5. 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. 
  6. 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!
  7. 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.   
  8. 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.  
  9. Are the dogs supervised at all times?
    A trained staff member should ALWAYS supervise dogs.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Do they have safety, cleaning, and disinfecting policies and procedures? What are they?

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What are Rest Period Enrichments?

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.

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How does Central Bark mentally stimulate a dog?

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 a 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!

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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.