Daycare to Build Your Dog's Confidence
Confidence Learning and Social Skills daycare for nervous or timid dogs
If your dog is nervous, fearful, apprehensive or anxious around others or in new situations, this program is for them.
Our Confidence Learning And Social Skills (CLASS) daycare program offers a safe place for dogs to build relationships with us and grow in confidence around other dogs in a controlled environment of very small play groups.
We have had great success with this program and with creating strong bonds of trust with dogs. That trust is the foundation for them to learn to be comfortable around other dogs and in new or social settings.
This is a program for dogs with social interest, but who need help building confidence and coming out of their shell.
Build your dog's confidence and transform how they engage with you and their world
A day of Confidence-Building Social experience
Rest & Play
Supportive & Supervised
Supportive & Supervised
Growing in confidence and experiencing new environments is tiring. We alternate play with rest to ensure dogs are able to rest, process and re-energize for another round of social exposure and confidence building.
Supportive & Supervised
Supportive & Supervised
Supportive & Supervised
We very carefully plan each day's CLASS groups to create a safe, supportive and stable environment that won't overwhelm your dog.
A CLASS daycare play group is small, with only up to 10 dogs per play group.
Indoor & Outdoor Play
Supportive & Supervised
Indoor & Outdoor Play
We have indoor and outdoor parks for diverse experience and play.
Our parks are air conditioned and fully climate controlled in all weather.
Enrichment
Support for All Aspects of Your Dog's Day
Indoor & Outdoor Play
A successful day is one that meets your dog's needs psychological, emotional and physical needs. We have a selection of activity enrichment, food enrichment and training enrichment to add even more to your dog's day.
Best-matched Friends
Support for All Aspects of Your Dog's Day
Support for All Aspects of Your Dog's Day
We match our confidence-building guests with others who make them feel safe and match their energy and play style.
There may be some minor size differences, but we don't group very tiny dogs with very large ones and we have size-specific confidence-building groups.
Support for All Aspects of Your Dog's Day
Support for All Aspects of Your Dog's Day
Support for All Aspects of Your Dog's Day
Our responsibility is to support your dog’s
ability to be awake but relaxed and to get
the reprieve they need to rest, charge
their social battery, and get ready for an
additional round of activity.
CLASS DAYCARE Packages & SubscriptionS
Meet & Greet
$20
Get your pup started with their personalized daycare program! Assessments are 30 mins and can be scheduled 7 days a week. Visit our Schedule a Meet & Greet page for more details.
Late pickup - all daycare programs
$7
Pickup after 6 pm by appointment
Intact Dog Fee
$5
Applies to intact male and female dogs over 8 months.
CLASS DAYCARE PAckages
Confidence Learning & Social Skills Program. Packages can be shared among all dogs on your account. Pickup until 8:30 pm available by appointment. Package must be used within 90 days.
Single Day of CLASS Daycare
$49
Half Day of CLASS Daycare
$38
5-Day CLASS Package
$235
5 CLASS days. $47/day
6-Day CLASS Package
$270
6 CLASS days. $47/day
10-Day CLASS Package
$450
10 CLASS days. $45/day
20-Day CLASS Package
$880
20 CLASS days. $44/day
CLASS DAYCARE Three-Month Subscriptions
Subscriptions offer days per month, renewing each month for three months. Subscription days can be split among dogs on the same account. Subscriptions do not renew automatically unless you request. For intact dogs over 8 months, purchase an intact dog subscription.
5 or 6 Days per month
$220 or $264
$44/day
10 Days per month
$420
$42/day
20 Days per month
$820
$41/day
Intact Dog Monthly Subscription
$5/day
Purchase matching number of days to subscription days
Please see full client services agreement for full details, refund and cancellation policy. Prices do not include gst.
Confidence-Building Measures Of Success
Communication
Social Interest
Social Interest
With every CLASS day, we create opportunities and play groups which build your dog's ability to understand other dogs' communication and cues and their ability to communicate well with others.
Social Interest
Social Interest
Social Interest
We gauge your dog's social interest each day and match them with others in the CLASS program that create a safe environment for them to expand their social comfort.
Comfort & Confidence
Comfort & Confidence
Comfort & Confidence
Our overall goal is your dog's comfort and confidence with us, with new environments and with other dogs. We will only create scenarios that support your dog and sees them advance. We plan your dog's CLASS group to only move them forward in positive ways.
Play Development
Comfort & Confidence
Comfort & Confidence
As confidence and comfort grows, we watch for development in your dog's play maturity. We gauge their response to other dogs' play engagement and watch for their initiation of play.
CLASS DAYCARE FAQ
Please reach us at info@thehappyhoundplaypark.ca if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Required vaccinations
Puppies under 24 weeks old require:
- two completed sets of Distemper combination vaccine
Dogs over 24 weeks old require:
- three completed sets of Distemper combination vaccine
- Rabies vaccine
Suggested Vaccinations
- Bordetella
- Flea, tick and lice preventive treatment
The CLASS dog daycare program helps nervous or fearful dogs develop confidence so they can begin to be introduced to others and develop social skills and confidence.
This is not a training program, but is a support program. If your dog is reactive (shows "aggression"), we have training programs to help with that behaviour.
- dogs that exhibit some fearfulness, but who aren’t reactive to others
- shy or nervous dogs
- puppies unsure of new or older dogs
- senior dogs not comfortable in groups
Book a Meet & Greet Appointment and we might recommend this program based on meeting and assessing your dog.
There is no set schedule or frequency for your dog to attend; however, confidence building is trust-based and building a dog’s trust occurs with consistency and investment, and we need to build on progress.
If your goal is to build your dog's confidence to be comfortable around other dogs, then consistency and a schedule that we can build on is suggested and we can work with your schedule and availability to put that program together.
If you simply need an intermittent safe space for your pup while you're occasionally away, and you have no longer-term goals, we can have your dog join us for intermittent CLASS days that focus on your dog's trust and relationship with our attendants
Because each dog is so very unique, with a unique background, feelings, and experiences, and as they continue to have experiences away from our programs, there is no guarantee as to a timeline.
This is not a training or behavioural modification program, but instead builds on the dog’s demonstrated comfort level and response to new situations or dogs.
At any point when a dog is participating in our CLASS program, if they don’t progress in their comfort and confidence, we will inform you.
If your dog progresses in comfort and is best suited for Social Daycare, we will inform and celebrate with you!
6-9 am: Small group play, one-on-one bathroom breaks, check-ins and play group organization
9-11 am: Morning rotational play and rest programs
11 - 12:30 pm: Mid-day rest, lunches, one-on-one play, enrichment sessions & training
12:30 - 3:30/4:00 pm: Afternoon rotational play programs and training
3:30 - 6 pm: Check-outs, enrichment sessions, baths & training
We accept dogs of all sizes. We have separate areas for our little dogs and larger dogs.
We do! Please see our prices above for details.
We do! We accept puppies after their second set of vaccinations. Puppies must have been in your home for at least one week and be 12 weeks of age.
We do accept intact dogs over 8 months old. Their play program, whether social group or personal play will be determined by their behaviour in social group and the other dogs' responses. If a dog isn't thriving in social group, our personal play program is ideal.
All dogs in our daycare program play naked! Naked play is the safest play for dogs.
Lobby & Service Hours
Lobby hours
6 am - 9 am (7 am - 9 am weekends) | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | 3 pm - 6:00 pm
Check-in and out is limited to the hours above. Check-out between 6 pm - 8:45 pm is by pre-scheduled appointment time only.
Service Hours
Mon | 06:00 a.m. – 08:45 p.m. | |
Tue | 06:00 a.m. – 08:45 p.m. | |
Wed | 06:00 a.m. – 08:45 p.m. | |
Thu | 06:00 a.m. – 08:45 p.m. | |
Fri | 06:00 a.m. – 08:45 p.m. | |
Sat | 07:00 a.m. – 08:45 p.m. | |
Sun | 07:00 a.m. – 08:45 p.m. |
No daycare is offered on holidays.
The Happy Hound Play Park
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