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Welcome To Central Bark York – Dog Day Care Services
At Central Bark York, we deeply appreciate and recognize the unique connection we share with our beloved furry companions. Our unwavering love for dogs drives us to ensure they have the best possible life. However, fulfilling all their needs can present occasional challenges. That’s why Central Bark® has earned the trust of families.
We provide a compassionate environment for dogs’ health, happiness, and well-being. Confidently choose Central Bark York for a fantastic day with furry friends your dog will love.
Our comprehensive approach to dog care, known as Whole Dog Care, centers around nurturing and enriching every aspect of your dog’s health and well-being throughout their entire life. At the heart of this approach lies our Enrichment Dog Day Care program. In addition, we offer various services such as dog boarding, baths, grooming, marketplace, training, and more. Our ultimate mission is to assist you and your dog in experiencing the most fulfilling life together.
We fully understand that dogs are not mere pets but cherished members of the family. Treating every dog like our own, with pride and devotion, as devoted dog parents ourselves.
Central Bark
York
3615 E Market St,
York, PA 17402Get Directions
Open Today 6:30 AM – 6:30 PM
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Eddie P. Central Bark York Whole Dog Care
Immerse yourself in our all-encompassing approach to dog care, where we offer an extensive selection of personalized products and services. Prioritizing your dog’s well-being for a lifetime of happiness and contentment.
Enrichment Dog Day Care
At our Dog Day Care, we are wholeheartedly dedicated to enhancing the lives of dogs through an array of personalized and exciting activities.
Grooming
Indulge your furry companion in a tailored grooming experience and captivating enrichment activities that promise ultimate enjoyment and satisfaction.
Boarding
Through our Dog Boarding service, we provide a cozy environment for your dog, minimizing stress and ensuring their happiness and well-being.
Products
Explore our premium selection of dog food, treats, toys, and accessories meticulously crafted to promote your pet’s physical well-being and nutrition.
Training & Enrichment
Enhance your bond with your dog through positive training and enrichment programs that nurture vital skills and behaviors.
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 York?
- Tailored for your furry friend: We understand the unique qualities of each dog and design their day to meet their individual needs and preferences.
- Holistic well-being and happiness: Promoting holistic well-being and happiness through personalized attention, engaging activities, and ample rest for your dog.
- Fluent in dog language: Our staff members are extensively trained in our science-based positive reinforcement approach, allowing them to communicate effectively with and understand the needs of dogs.
- Safety and cleanliness: The safety and well-being of all our guests are our top priorities. We adhere to comprehensive safety protocols and maintain rigorous cleaning procedures to ensure that your dog remains safe and healthy throughout their stay.
- Trusted and affectionate care: Central Bark has been entrusted by families for over 20 years to enhance their dogs’ lives. Our winning combination of personalized attention, playtime, exercise, socialization, training, rest, and genuine affection ensures a loving environment.
- Building a lifelong bond: It’s remarkable how a day spent apart can strengthen the bond between you and your dog. When your dog returns home happy and healthy, you can be free from the worry of leaving them alone for another day.
Dog Day Care. Reimagined.
Experience an elevated day care experience for your dog with Central Bark Enrichment Dog Day Care! We revolutionize the concept of dog day care by combining expertise with the latest insights from dog behavior science. Your cherished canine companion will flourish in a tailored and stimulating environment, receiving the perfect blend of play, mental stimulation, physical exercise, socialization, training, rest, and affection. Uncover a whole new realm of care that fosters 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
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.
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.
Yes. We offer sleepovers to puppies and dogs enrolled in our Enrichment Day Care. Sleepovers at Central Bark® provide your dog a calm, relaxing sleepover in a place they can feel comfortable and loved. Because they’re in a familiar place, they can feel less stressed about being away from home (and so will you). A full day of Doggy Day Care is complimentary with your sleepover stay.
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.
